Wheel used in gambling, similar to roulette Storm, winter tempest (specifically, one from the Sea of Storms) Honor (can be used in the sense of “for the honor”) Past tense indicator, like -ed in Englishĭevice that enhances the power to channelĭead, the those who have passed, those who have released their mortal coil a root word related to ayende and allende.ĭo (used as an intensifier e.g., 'Ca'lyet ye' is 'I do come' with the stress on 'do')Īnimals/creatures from the Age of Legends known for being vicious and living in a nest (mentioned by Sammael) Pass (as passing through or by, not handing something over) Royal (added to the first name of a Malkieri king)īrother (sometimes used to address Ogier, as an abbreviated form of “tia avende alantin”) Group of women in the White Tower organised towards a single goal The numbers in the Old Tongue can be found on a separate page.Īll everyone the public body civilizationĪssociation created for a specific purpose Note that numbers are compound words as they are composed of a stem indicating the number and a suffix indicating whether it is a physical object or an abstract one. Sorting by part of speech will enable easier sentence construction. If you wish to translate a word or phrase from English/Common Tongue to the Old Tongue, order the table using the second column.

Jordan, however, does discard some of these that are not used in his world and expands it by having some unique to his own worldbuilding and multiple words for the same word in the Common Tongue. The list of atomic words (and some of the compound ones) is likely based on the 950-ish words of Basic English that Jordan used as the base of his language.

those that cannot be broken down further or which are conjugations or irregular past participles of verbs. The following table gives all 'atomic' words known in the Old Tongue i.e.

2 List of Compound Words and Short Phrases.

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