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== Gnomish Lexicon ==

A list of confirmed words in Gnomish. For suggestions/additions, please use the Discussion page and include a link to the relevant document the term is used in (or if it is an in-game item/location, enough information staff can find it for review).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" | '''Gnomish Term'''
! scope="col" | '''Translation'''
! scope="col" | '''Roots'''
! scope="col" | '''Originating Documentation'''
! scope="col" | '''Date Introduced'''
! scope="col" | '''Other Info'''
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Senzhua || "ritual of the stolen death" || from "zhu" (one of several Gnomish terms for death) and "senra" (stolen) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A burghal gnome death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Tiazhu || funeral cookies || from "tia" (truncation of a word for cookie) and "zhu" (one of several Gnomish terms for death) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A type of cookie made for funerals
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Tia || cookie || n/a || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || One of many Gnomish words for cookie
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhu || Death || n/a || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || One of many Gnomish words for death
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Siqtia || "cookie stick" || From "tia" (a word for cookie) and "siq" (something like stick or bat) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A type of intricately carved rolling pin, most commonly used in the making of tiazhu
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Siq || stick or bat || n/a || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || Typically used for something cut/carved into a stick-like or bat-like form, such as a rolling pin (see siqtia)
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vekvadil || Unknown || From "vek" (a term often used in death-related speech) and "vad" (assumed to be from Vad'xnotaxa) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Withycombe death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vadzyrr || n/a || From "vad" (assumed to be from Vad'xnotaxa) and "Tamzyrr" (the human city) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A burghal gnome city beneath Tamzyrr
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Tiasat || cookie wine || from "tia" (a word for cookie) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A type of dessert wine of the burghal gnomes
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ahrzeit || "stopping of the clocks" || From "ahr" (clock) and "zeit" (a fragment of a word translating roughly to stopping gears) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Winedotter death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ithelveca || death scrying || From "ithel" (a fragment of the word for star) and "veca" (a truncation of the word for scrying) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Winedotter death ritual for their mystics
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vetsika || Unknown || Unknown || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A funerary wine used by Winedotters
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Kystalq || Unknown || Assumed "kys" comes from "kysvein" but otherwise unknown || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Nylem annual death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhu'actaq || Death's Joke/Roast || From "zhu" (one of several Gnomish terms for death) and "actaq" (a type of caustic joke) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Nylem death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Actaq || caustic joke || Unknown || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A term for a joke that is typically caustic or biting in nature
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhu'milaiva || Death of growing things || From "zhu" (one of several Gnomish terms for death) and "milaiva" (roughly 'grown' or 'growing' things) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Withycombe death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Milaiva || roughly "grown/growing" things || n/a || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A term used mostly with crops or flowers
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Kysvein || Unknown || Unknown || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A type of crypt, often booby-trapped, used in several burghal gnome cultures
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Laenkyst || Unknown || Unknown || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || An Aledotter death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Cersfelt || Heart's fire || From "cers" (a term for heart) and "felt" (a term for fire) || [[Burghal Gnome Mourning|Stopping the Clocks: Burghal Gnome Death Rituals]] || August 2023 || A Vylem death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ti || Tea || n/a || Flora of Atan Irith: A Guide to Some of the Continent's Unique Flora || February 2023 || The Gnomish term for tea, pronounced the same way
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vitzhu'tek || roughly "Death-blood recitation" || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Basingstoke bloodline death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Idrisa || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Greengair bloodline death ritual
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vekina || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Wendwillow bloodline candle ceremony for the dead
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Nictchu || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Rosengift bloodline death day competition
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Nict'lat || type of guide || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Rosengift bloodline guide for the nictchu
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Tichalx || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Angstholm bloodline funeral lotion
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ti'chanek || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Angstholm bloodline sky burial
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Tichalyth || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Angstholm bloodline rose liqueur laced with valerian
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhumec'itza || literally "death sport for honor" || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Felcour bloodline game, also called "zhumec"
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Veczhu || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Felcour bloodline funerary wine (veczhu or veczhu wine), a type of blood wine
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhuletza || Unknown || Unknown || [[Telling the Bees|Telling the Bees: Death Rituals of the Forest Gnomes]] || January 2023 || Felcour bloodline funeral rites, encompasses all rituals held
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| V'xnoma || Gnomish || Unknown || [[Inyexat/People of the Stars|People of the Stars: Forest Gnomes in Atan Irith]] || 2023-01-11 || What forest and burghal gnomes call their language
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ya'xnotila || People of the Green Forests || "Ya'" - uncertain, but something to do with forest, "xno" - something akin to 'people,' and "tila" - unknown || [[Inyexat/People of the Stars|People of the Stars: Forest Gnomes in Atan Irith]] || 2023-01-11 || Forest gnomes name for themselves
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vad'xnotaxa || People of the Hearth || "Vad'" - uncertain, but something to do with hearths, "xno" - something akin to 'people,' and "taxa" - unknown || [[Inyexat/People of the Stars|People of the Stars: Forest Gnomes in Atan Irith]] || 2023-01-11 || Burghal gnomes name for themselves
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Okibnil || cave crawler || Unknown || [[Inyexat/People of the Stars|People of the Stars: Forest Gnomes in Atan Irith]] || 2023-01-11 || Term used by forest and burghal gnomes for the "cave gnomes"
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Dva'lorten || Unknown || Unknown || [[Lines of Blood: A History of the Gnomes]] || 2003 || a communal setting for the Basingstoke bloodline
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Eisenruck || Unknown || Unknown || [[Eisenruck]] document || Unknown || A type of backpack
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Glimaergless || Approx. glimmering glass || Loosely taken from the "glimaer" (elven for glimmer) and "gless" - glass || [[Glassworking/A Continuation|Artisanal Glasses of Elanthia: A Continuation]] || September 2022 || A type of Wendwillow glassworking
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Glaesineth || Unknown || Unknown || [[Glassworking/A Continuation|Artisanal Glasses of Elanthia: A Continuation]] || September 2022 || A type of forest gnome-produced glass
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ivsenra || ink stealer || Combination/truncation of gnomish words for ink and stealer || [[Library Mouse|A Library Mouse By Any Other Name]] || February 2021 || Winedotter term for bookworm. See also achlat
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Achlat || bookworm || Unknown || [[Library Mouse|A Library Mouse By Any Other Name]] || February 2021 || Burghal gnome term for bookworm, see also Ivsenra
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Latevlot || vellum vole || Combination/truncation of gnomish words for vellum and vole || [[Library Mouse|A Library Mouse By Any Other Name]] || February 2021 || n/a
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Plumille || n/a || Unknown || [[Plumille]] document || HSN 2015 || Plumille is a fabric mostly used for outer garments because of the natural water-resistant properties of the woven feather barbs
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Apotl/Apotla || n/a || Unknown || [[Forest Gnomes: Thoughts from an Angstholm Raised Half-Elf]] || May 2009? || Forest gnome cloak (apotl = male, apotla = female)
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Huiteo || n/a || Unknown || [[Forest Gnomes: Thoughts from an Angstholm Raised Half-Elf]] || May 2009? || Forest gnome beaded headband
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Basrenne || n/a || Unknown || [[Ferroniere]] document || 2007ish || Basingstoke/forest gnome ferroniere
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Ferrigem || n/a || "Ferri" from ferroniere + gem || [[Ferroniere]] document || 2007ish || Burghal gnome ferroniere. With roots in Common, this is not representative of Gnomish's rich roots, but it is uniquely found amongst the burghals, so it is included here
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Nonalca || n/a || Unknown || [[Forest Gnomes: Thoughts from an Angstholm Raised Half-Elf]] || May 2009? || Forest gnome, female-worn, wide sash
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Vit’gno Loed || Unknown || Unknown || [[Lines of Blood: A History of the Gnomes]] || Unknown || Name of an epic poem
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Zhadu’gno || Blood-marking || Unknown || [[Lines of Blood: A History of the Gnomes]] || Unknown || Basingstoke coming of age ceremony
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Arvyad’gno || Venture of fate || Unknown || [[Lines of Blood: A History of the Gnomes]] || Unknown || Burghal gnome coming of age ceremony
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Senrataes || roughly "stolen city" || from "senra" (stolen) and "taes" - a term for city/community thought to be influenced by similar Elven words || [[Ta'Nalfein]] document || May 2023 || The burghal gnome city under Ta'Nalfein
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Senra || Stolen || n/a || [[Ta'Nalfein]] document || May 2023 || n/a
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| -taes || "city" or "community" || Unknown || [[Ta'Nalfein]] document || May 2023 || n/a
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| scope="row" role="rowheader"| Mykt || Unknown, but probably market || Unknown || [[Ta'Nalfein]] document || May 2023 || Origins are unknown, but it is used by some burghal gnomes and Nalfein elves.
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Tekuhr||Unknwon||Unknown|| [[Ta'Ardenai]] || February 2024 || A type of elaborate clockwork cage
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Mykal||Unknown||Unknown||[[Ta'Ardenai]]||February 2024||An Ardenai forest gnome fabric made from mushrooms and fungi
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Tanbaxa||Tangleball || n/a|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||A forest gnome sport
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Torqil||Tournament || n/a|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Tanbaxa Torqil||Tangleball Tourney || From "tanbaxa" (tangleball) and "torqil" (tournament)|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||An annual forest gnome tournament
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Tansiqa||A type of wooden bat || From "tanbrika" (tanglebriar) and "siq" (bat)|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||A wide, flat bat carved from tanbrika wood and used in playing tangleball
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Paqtan||A netted raquet || From "paq" (net) and either "tanbrika" (tanglebriar) or "tanbaxa" (tangleball)|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||A netted raquet used in playing tangleball
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Tanbrika||Tanglebriar || n/a|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Estival Holidays| Estival, or Summer, Holidays]]||June 2024||A type of thick, curving bramble with large thorns
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Sleutspel||Tinkering Games || From "sleut" (tinkering) and "spel" (game)|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Vernal Holidays | Spring Holidays]]||March 2024||A burghal gnome holiday/competition held in spring
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Sleut||Literally, gear or key. Colloquially, tinkering. || n/a|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Vernal Holidays | Spring Holidays]]||March 2024||
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Spel||A term for game, more specifically some sort of competition || n/a|| [[Elanthian Holidays/Vernal Holidays | Spring Holidays]]||March 2024||
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Flitraegt||roughly featherbear||Unknown||[[The Ivsenra and the Flitraegt]]||October 2024||A mythical creature in burghal gnome stories
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|scope="row" role="rowheader"|Eisgen||Engineer||Unknown||[[The Ivsenra and the Flitraegt]]||October 2024||One of several terms for engineer. Typically used for one in some position of authority.
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