Gentlebeings, start your search engines

[rolanni]

EDITED TO ADD: Thread frozen; I have my answers.  Thanks to everyone for being willing to help!

There has been a call for a(n updated) Liaden Dictionary.  I have located in my files a longish list of words that ought to get us started, but I don't have context for some of the words, and have come up empty guessing which book they must appear in (or they're there, but the search engine in my word processor passes them by -- this has happened before; the in-Libre search does not like apostrophes interrupting its words).

So!

Who can get me references -- that would be book and search phrase -- for the following:

a'trezla
balent'i kalandon
balent'i tru'vad
lazenia spandok
lisamia keshoc
palesci modassa
prethliu
tra'sia volectava'netra
Valcon Berant'a
Valcon Melad'a

Comments

[reedrover]

"Lazenia spandok," she said, rudely. HIs eyebrows shot up. "You speak Liaden?" "Well enough to swear and pidgin my way through a battle plan..." Agent of Change, last two pages of chapter 6.

"Thank you, I-" She shook her head and tried again. "Palesci modassa." That was the formal phrase of thanksgiving. Agent of Change, last two pages in chapter 7.

(Guess what I've been re-reading just this week...?)

Edited to add: a'trezla, Valcon Berant'a, and Valcon Melad'a are listed in the Mouse and Dragon published lexicon in the back of the book, but I can't nail down where they are used *in* the book at a glance. Hopefully this helps narrow it down?

Second edited to add. You have combined two phrases in your list above that are also both in the back of Mouse and Dragon. tra'sia volecta is separate from va'netra.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Aha. I'd forgotten about the glossary in the back of Mouse & Dragon. This may solve my problems.

Thanks!