Daily Míranei - the Eight Paths of Wisdom

The elves of the Fifth Age abided by a philosophy called The Eight Paths of Wisdom.


I've sneaked a few in here before on this blog. Here are all eight with their Míranei translations:

tjejath - persistence - that which we do as a habit becomes easier, whether for good or ill.

sjogee'ath - compassion - until you can see the world through another's eyes, you are truly blind.

míranath - honesty - we are only happy with the truth, specifically when told to ourselves.

kapérath - courage - when we find the strength to do that which we fear, we find strength in all things.

slaetath - forgiveness - the person who benefits the greatest from forgiveness is the forgiver.

maefn - love - to receive love, love all things.

akran - joy - life is joy.

loskath - goodness - evil only exists in the absence of goodness.

cheers,

Kurt

Daily Miranei - Laef lee'a raungr

raungr - mysterious

tídengr - nervous

sertangr - obnoxious

melnsiga - panicky

drassiga - repulsive

trémgr - scary

pegrdilsiga - thoughtless

yrkgr - worried

fun usage: 

Neo: Morpheus, I'm yrkgr.

Morpheus: Don't be tídendgr. The bullets aren't real.

Neo: Ow! Then why am I bleeding?! This is trémgr!

Morpheus: Life is raungr.

Neo: And you're sertangr.

cheers,

Kurt

Daily Miranei - don't be hrathdr, be frohl

hrathdr - angry

gilland - bewildered

herldon - clumsy

davrigr - defeated

nisslangr - embarrassed

bhel - fierce

ymthdr - grumpy

fúltjadilsiga - helpless

klorthdr - itchy

tegand - jealous

tralthdr - lazy

fun usage:

Lauren: Don't be so tralthdr, get up and mow the lawn.

Humphrey: Tralthdr! I am gilland! How can you say that about me!

Lauren: Oh, don't be so ymthdr.


the suffix -dr is akin to English's -y  angry is to anger, as hrathdr is to hrath.

cheers,

Kurt

Daily Miranei tar and tín

tar  (adj.) fast

tín  (adj.) slow

cheers,

Kurt

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.

Click here to go to blog entitled Miranei Numbers




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