Lapine: A Glossary
This is the wonderful Lapine language used in Richard Adams' works. I have added to it but it is pretty much accurate. Have fun!
Bob-stones: A traditional game among rabbits. It is played with small stones, fragments of sticks or the like. Fundamentally it is a gambling game similar to "Heads or Tails". Player #1 "casts" stones and covers them with a paw while player #2 has to guess which side is showing (dark or light, rough or smooth, etc.). After a number of casts, if player #2 guessed more right than he guessed wrong, he would win whatever they were gambling for. Sometimes the stakes were very high.

El: Enemy, evil.

El-ahrairah: The rabbit hero, or "Prince with a Thousand Enemies".

Elil: Enemies of rabbits, such as weasels, foxes, and stoats.

Embleer: Stinking, like the smell of a fox.

Fiver: see Hrairoo

Flay: Food, such as grass.

Flayrah
: very good food, such as lettuce.

Frith: The sun, personified by rabbits. Also used to tell time.

Frithrah:
The Lord Sun, used as exclamation.

Fu-: After, used as a prefix for time.

H-: "H" is always silent when at the beginning of any word of the Lapine tongue.

Hain:
Song. Could also be related to story, tale, music, art, talents and gifts. 

Hlao
: Any dimple or depression in the grass that can hold moisture.

Hlao-roo:
"little depression". Also a name for a diminutive rabbit.

Hless
i: A wandering rabbit.

Homba:
A fox.

Hrair:
More than four, or a thousand. Rabbits can count up to no more than four, so anything over four is a thousand to them.

Hrairoo:
"Little Thousand","Runt", or "Fiver"(replace "five" with any number above four) . Since rabbits can only count to four, anything over that is one thousand. A rabbit named Fiver may have been the fifth of a litter, so his name would mean "Little Thousand".

Hraka
: droppings.

Hrududu:
A man vehicle, such as a tractor, car or truck.

Hy:
Shine or words to that effect.

Hyzenthlay:
"Shine-dew-fur", or fur that shines like the dew. It is the name of a rabbit.

-il:
Use as a suffix for making a word plural. Examples- Hrududu=Hrududil, Hlessi=Hlessil.

Inle: The moon. A second meaning carries the idea of darkness, fear and death.

Innang: Leaves.





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