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Edited by RyanBH2603:
5/11/2018 6:57:00 PM
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Translating hive names/titles in "Strange Terrain" strike
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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I know this is an old thread, but my weird hobby is checking Hive-related words in the [http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/nepsd-frame.html]Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary[/url], and I found some interesting things I wanted to share: ‘kamuš’ - ‘worm’. Kamus Knights, Wizards, Ogres etc. appear(ed) in the Will of Thousands strike; think about how in this mission a WORM god attacked Rasputin. ‘namuš’ - ‘death’. Namuš Knights, Wizards, Vanquishers etc. appear(ed) in the Strange Terrain strike; think about how this was the mission where we learned Nokris was a necromancer. ‘ugul ĝar’ - ‘to pray’. Ugul Gar Knights had been resurrected by Nokris and carried relics which enabled us to shatter crystals in both Strange Terrain and the Nokris fight in Arrivals. ‘šuluh’ - ‘ritual clensing’. Šuluh and Šuluh-teth Knights appeared in Strange Terrain; I did not find any translation for ‘teth’, so I assume it’s a made-up Hive word, maybe indicating a higher rank (Šuluh-teth Knights were Majors). ‘šimmumah’ - ‘high priest’. Šimmumah ur-Nokru was a Wizard summoned by four Knights in Strange Terrain. ‘merga’ - ‘first’. Thanatologist Merga was a Wizard encountered in Strange Terrain.
