Playing through the Nokris strike I noticed that a lot of the hive had names written in a "hive-ish" manner. So, being a linguist, I did some research and was able to approximate some translations.
[b]Namuš[/b] - honoured (from Arabic, Greek, Sanskrit, Pali for virtue, honour, respect)
[b]Šimmumah[/b] - (high) priest (Sumerian)
[b]Kvada[/b] - Destroyer (kvadda in Swedish means to crash, break, destroy, demolish)
[b]Ugul Gar[/b] - supplicant (Babylonian for pray)
[b]Kamus[/b] - scribe/scholar? (from Indonesian, Malay, Turkish for dictionary. Had difficulty with this one)
[b]Šuluh[/b] - purifier (Sumerian for purification, ritual cleansing)
[b]Šuluh-teth[/b] - [unsure, wasn't able to find a translation for "teth", assuming it means someone of a higher position in a hive context as a šuluh-teth knight is a major]
[b]ur-Nokru[/b] - of Nokris ("ur" appears to act as a genitive marker/preposition like "of" in English, "Nokru" would then be the genitive form of "Nokris" with case inflection changing the "is" to "u". Similar to Balto-Slavic languages as well as others)
Any additional insights or correction?
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All good stuff. I wasn't able to find meanings to some of these, especially 'teth'. Just thought I'd add this: during the Nokris boss fight there are Wizards that spawn with the title "THANATOLOGIST IR'HANDI" Also, the Šuluh-Teth knights are the ones who perform the summoning ritual (around the plate) and the Ugul Gar knights drop the relics to destroy the floating crystals. Don't know the significance behind this just yet though. Still working...