Aslan glossary

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• Ahfa: Personal relics and talismans kept to honour the ancestors.
• Ahriy: Pride; a group of related Aslan families.
• Aisai: An Aslan’s dewclaw, a 10-cm razor-sharp blade that folds like a jack-knife into a horny sheath in the base of the palm. From ai sai, ‘blade claw’.
• Aisailaokhe: A duel of honour over beliefs or grievances sodeep that the fight must be to the death.
• Akhuaeuhrekhyeh: The Rite of Passage.
• Akyafteirleao: A threat to Aslan culture; heresy ordegeneration.
• Ao: Immortal spirit, generally used as a metaphor insteadof a statement of belief in such things.
• Aohkho: Priest or sage.
• Aokhaor: Honour, strength of spirit.
• Aokhol: A moment of clarity and perfect balance, where eaia, action and universe are in perfect accord; a steppingstone towards khoafteirleao.
• Aoshi: (1) Kusyu’s inner moon (2) An elusive concept or thought.
• Areiaao: A sprint, a period of time of approximately 16 seconds.
• Awkhea: Landless, lower class Aslan; peasants.
• Eaia: Inner self.-eakh: Suffix meaning ‘world’.
• Eakhau: An Aslan day.
• Eal: Gun.
• Earleatrais: Referee or arbiter in a court case, war or duel.
• Eikhoi: Dusk.
• Eikhoifiruah: Chant of praise for a defeated but worthy foe.
• Ekho: Family.
• Ekhoao: Spiritual family; one’s friends and blood brothers.
• Ekhtoawetyu: Rite of asking permission to enter another’s territory.
• Fahr: (1) Beginning (2) Key.
• Firuah: A song, especially a warrior’s challenge song.
• Firukhte: Ritualised insults or satire designed to provoke a challenge.
• Fiy: Vassal of.
• Fiya’: ‘I am your vassal’.
• Fiyafiyair: The Imperium.
• Ftahea: An Aslan year.
• Fteirle: The Aslan people.
• Hasoi: Landhold (literally ‘place under a claw’).
• Hahea: Landowners, upper class Aslan.
• Helu: Plains or fields.
• Helua: Hunting ground.
• Hisol’i: Solomani.
• Hoaawli: Warrior school or cult.
• Htahyu: Important place; capital or centre. Usually used to describe the seat of a clan or a family homestead.
• Htatei: First son.
• Htoi: Green.
• Huiha: Clan.
• Hyufteirlerye: (1) A great gathering of people (2) A city (3) The market.
• Ihatei: Second son.
• Iyarl: Agent or company.
• Ka’ah: Slow.
• Khailifakht: (1) The outback on Kusyu, the hunting grounds of great lords (2) Wilderness.
• Khaofiy: Ritual submission in a duel.
• Khaulear: One hundred in base 8; equivalent to 64 in base 10.
• Khir: Warrior.
• Khoafteirleao: Spiritual perfection attained by acting in perfect accord with one’s nature.
• Khoiaya: Armour.
• Khtauaao: Aslan time period lasting just under eighteenminutes.
• Khyeiryos: (1) A trickster (2) A legendary creature, known forits shrewd and deceitful nature (3) Humans.
• Khtyei: Holding or possession.
• Ko: (1) Himself (2) Suffix added to the name of a clan tocreate the title of the head of that clan. The clan Hwriayro isruled by an Aslan called Hwriayroko, who is THE Hwriayro.
• Ka’tai: ‘It is fitting’, ritual response to many formalrequests.
• Layeau: Valley.
• Lu’uifakte: Computer information centre or library.
• Rao: Food.
• Rukta: Dishonourable deeds, such as treachery,assassination without first declaring a war of assassins,running from a challenge.*: Private investigator.
• Rukhiywe: Committing rukta; acting in a non-Aslan way.
• Ruktaha: District inhabited by Outcasts.55
• Shi: Swift.
• Shifaowoi: Popular cooking spice.
• Si’aiktae: (1) Gift of hospitality by a landowner after oneenters his domain (2) The meal traditionally given as a gift(3) Being under the protection of a landowner.
• Si’khiraeokhaor: A warrior’s code of honour; what must bedone.
• Siya: Unmarried.
• Siyajkhoara: A female who takes an oath to remain unmarried, who dedicates her life to her clan or anothercause.
• Sihouweililyiuahryi: ‘Your pride calls to you’; a cry for help.
• Siyreakhaotoior: Classic Aslan literature.
• Soistsea: Unknown lands; the frontier.
• Su’ikh: Shield.
• Tahwihteakhau: Barbarians; non-Aslan.
• Tai’ao: Air demon from ancient Aslan mythology;guardians of heaven.
• Tala: Books (sing. Talat). Traditionally, a scroll.
• Taleryu: Aslan personal weapon; a crescent-shaped blade.
• Tao: Aslan glyph.
• Tekhaao: An Aslan period of time similar to an hour; 135.7 standard minutes.
• Tlasoistsea: (1) ‘The bounty of new lands’ (2) Landsawarded to a triumphant warrior (3) Being remembered asa great ancestor, (4) Heaven.
• Tlauftahea: ‘Thirty years’, the time in which the Tlalkhuwas organised.
• Tlalkhu: The Twenty-Nine; the great clans who form themain deliberative council of the Hierate.
• Trokh: The Aslan language.
• Tye: ‘Tiny sun’, star.
• Tyeao: ‘Star-spirits’, the ancestors.
• Uealaao: Aslan second.
• Ukhtai: Hero, honourable warrior.
• Yae: Door or entry.
• Yaeatyeao: ‘The gateway to Heaven’; deeds that will liveforever.
• Yaeyekh: Airlock.
• Ya’uiya: Dishonour so great that the Aslan is stricken from the rolls of his clan; becoming Outcast.
• Ya’uiyekh: Emptiness, void, vacuum.
• Yerlik: Battle, especially a formal contest overseen by an earleatrais.
• Yerlikhelu: Battlefield.
• Yorl: Messenger or Courier.

Numbers

• Khte: Zero.
• Air: One.
• Hlai: Two.
• Kheh: Three.
• Hryeh: Four.
• Khu: Five.
• Hyro: Six.
• Koih: Seven.
• Tea: Ten; equals 8 base 8.
• Iyrl: Twenty base 8, equals 16 base 10.
• Tlau: Thirty base 8, equals 24 base 10
• Starl: Forty base 8, equals 32 base 10.