| 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. Hlessi: 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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