Daily Miranei - number related words

There are some words related to the elvish counting system. Here are the numbers to refresh your memory:

0 - de

1- oh

2 - io

3 - ora

4 - na

5 - ku

6 - as

7 - te

There is no 8 or 9. 

It's called Base 8, or Octal, and it's explained in another blog here in the archives.

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Here are the words related to the number system. 

deth - empty

dethsiga - sad (full of empty)

ohth - alone

ohthsiga - depressed, despondent (full of aloneness)

io - eternity

ioth - eternal

iothsiga - wise (full of eternity)

orath - balance

orathn - balanced

nath - teach

nathn - taught

nathei - teacher

nathei'au - teachers

nathsiga - educated (full of teaching)

kuth - surround

kuthn - surrounded

asth - proceed

asthn - proceeded

asthr - procession

teth - produce, beehive

tethn - produced

tethsiga - productive

now here's the interesting part: grab seven vitamins, or jelly beans, or pennies.

Lay zero down, it is empty, or deth. 

de - zero

lay one penny down, it is alone, or oth. 

oh - one

lay two pennies down, it's paired with another penny. This to the elves of Lanis was the essence of the eternal, two lovers going on throughout all time, ioth. 

io - two, eternity

lay three pennies down, no matter how you arraign them, they form either a triangle or a line. This is balance, or orath. 

ora - three.

lay four pennies down. They form a quadrangle. This is a little convoluted, so be forgiving. The elves had the Eight Paths of Wisdom. If you stack four on top of four, it becomes a cube, with eight corners. So, with the configuration of four, you are looking down on a cube, an analogy of teaching, or nath. 

na - four.

Now lay down five pennies. It appears that four of them surround one. Simple. 

kuth - surround. 

ku - five.

now lay down six pennies and arraign them into two rows of three. That's a procession, right? 

asth - proceed. asthr - procession. 

as - six.

lay down seven pennies. You'll find six fit nicely in a circle around the seventh. What does that look like? Yes, it's a hexagon, or honeycomb. What is busier than a bee? 

teth - produce, beehive (both a verb and a noun). 

te - seven.

cheers,

Kurt