madonreikä

madonreikä (nominative singular)
madonreiät (nominative plural)
madonreikä (accusative nominative singular)
madonreiät (accusative nominative plural)
madonreiän (accusative genitive singular)
madonreiät (accusative genitive plural)
madonreiän (genitive singular)
madonreikien (genitive plural)
madonreikäin (genitive plural rare)
madonreikää (partitive singular)
madonreikiä (partitive plural)
madonreiässä (inessive singular)
madonrei’issä (inessive plural)
madonreiästä (elative singular)
madonrei’istä (elative plural)
madonreikään (illative singular)
madonreikiin (illative plural)
madonreiällä (adessive singular)
madonrei’illä (adessive plural)
madonreiältä (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltä (ablative plural)
madonreiälle (allative singular)
madonrei’ille (allative plural)
madonreikänä (essive singular)
madonreikinä (essive plural)
madonreiäksi (singular translative)
madonrei’iksi (plural translative)
madonreiättä (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittä (abessive plural)
madonrei’in (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
madonreikäni (nominative singular)
madonreikäni (nominative plural)
madonreikäni (accusative nominative singular)
madonreikäni (accusative nominative plural)
madonreikäni (accusative genitive singular)
madonreikäni (accusative genitive plural)
madonreikäni (genitive singular)
madonreikieni (genitive plural)
madonreikäini (genitive plural rare)
madonreikääni (partitive singular)
madonreikiäni (partitive plural)
madonreiässäni (inessive singular)
madonrei’issäni (inessive plural)
madonreiästäni (elative singular)
madonrei’istäni (elative plural)
madonreikääni (illative singular)
madonreikiini (illative plural)
madonreiälläni (adessive singular)
madonrei’illäni (adessive plural)
madonreiältäni (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltäni (ablative plural)
madonreiälleni (allative singular)
madonrei’illeni (allative plural)
madonreikänäni (essive singular)
madonreikinäni (essive plural)
madonreiäkseni (singular translative)
madonrei’ikseni (plural translative)
madonreiättäni (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittäni (abessive plural)
madonreikineni (comitative plural)
madonreikäsi (nominative singular)
madonreikäsi (nominative plural)
madonreikäsi (accusative nominative singular)
madonreikäsi (accusative nominative plural)
madonreikäsi (accusative genitive singular)
madonreikäsi (accusative genitive plural)
madonreikäsi (genitive singular)
madonreikiesi (genitive plural)
madonreikäisi (genitive plural rare)
madonreikääsi (partitive singular)
madonreikiäsi (partitive plural)
madonreiässäsi (inessive singular)
madonrei’issäsi (inessive plural)
madonreiästäsi (elative singular)
madonrei’istäsi (elative plural)
madonreikääsi (illative singular)
madonreikiisi (illative plural)
madonreiälläsi (adessive singular)
madonrei’illäsi (adessive plural)
madonreiältäsi (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltäsi (ablative plural)
madonreiällesi (allative singular)
madonrei’illesi (allative plural)
madonreikänäsi (essive singular)
madonreikinäsi (essive plural)
madonreiäksesi (singular translative)
madonrei’iksesi (plural translative)
madonreiättäsi (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittäsi (abessive plural)
madonreikinesi (comitative plural)
madonreikämme (nominative singular)
madonreikämme (nominative plural)
madonreikämme (accusative nominative singular)
madonreikämme (accusative nominative plural)
madonreikämme (accusative genitive singular)
madonreikämme (accusative genitive plural)
madonreikämme (genitive singular)
madonreikiemme (genitive plural)
madonreikäimme (genitive plural rare)
madonreikäämme (partitive singular)
madonreikiämme (partitive plural)
madonreiässämme (inessive singular)
madonrei’issämme (inessive plural)
madonreiästämme (elative singular)
madonrei’istämme (elative plural)
madonreikäämme (illative singular)
madonreikiimme (illative plural)
madonreiällämme (adessive singular)
madonrei’illämme (adessive plural)
madonreiältämme (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltämme (ablative plural)
madonreiällemme (allative singular)
madonrei’illemme (allative plural)
madonreikänämme (essive singular)
madonreikinämme (essive plural)
madonreiäksemme (singular translative)
madonrei’iksemme (plural translative)
madonreiättämme (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittämme (abessive plural)
madonreikinemme (comitative plural)
madonreikänne (nominative singular)
madonreikänne (nominative plural)
madonreikänne (accusative nominative singular)
madonreikänne (accusative nominative plural)
madonreikänne (accusative genitive singular)
madonreikänne (accusative genitive plural)
madonreikänne (genitive singular)
madonreikienne (genitive plural)
madonreikäinne (genitive plural rare)
madonreikäänne (partitive singular)
madonreikiänne (partitive plural)
madonreiässänne (inessive singular)
madonrei’issänne (inessive plural)
madonreiästänne (elative singular)
madonrei’istänne (elative plural)
madonreikäänne (illative singular)
madonreikiinne (illative plural)
madonreiällänne (adessive singular)
madonrei’illänne (adessive plural)
madonreiältänne (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltänne (ablative plural)
madonreiällenne (allative singular)
madonrei’illenne (allative plural)
madonreikänänne (essive singular)
madonreikinänne (essive plural)
madonreiäksenne (singular translative)
madonrei’iksenne (plural translative)
madonreiättänne (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittänne (abessive plural)
madonreikinenne (comitative plural)
madonreikänsä (nominative singular)
madonreikänsä (nominative plural)
madonreikänsä (accusative nominative singular)
madonreikänsä (accusative nominative plural)
madonreikänsä (accusative genitive singular)
madonreikänsä (accusative genitive plural)
madonreikänsä (genitive singular)
madonreikiensä (genitive plural)
madonreikäinsä (genitive plural rare)
madonreikäänsä (partitive singular)
madonreikiään (partitive plural)
madonreikiänsä (partitive plural)
madonreiässään (inessive singular)
madonreiässänsä (inessive singular)
madonrei’issään (inessive plural)
madonrei’issänsä (inessive plural)
madonreiästään (elative singular)
madonreiästänsä (elative singular)
madonrei’istään (elative plural)
madonrei’istänsä (elative plural)
madonreikäänsä (illative singular)
madonreikiinsä (illative plural)
madonreiällään (adessive singular)
madonreiällänsä (adessive singular)
madonrei’illään (adessive plural)
madonrei’illänsä (adessive plural)
madonreiältään (ablative singular)
madonreiältänsä (ablative singular)
madonrei’iltään (ablative plural)
madonrei’iltänsä (ablative plural)
madonreiälleen (allative singular)
madonreiällensä (allative singular)
madonrei’illeen (allative plural)
madonrei’illensä (allative plural)
madonreikänään (essive singular)
madonreikänänsä (essive singular)
madonreikinään (essive plural)
madonreikinänsä (essive plural)
madonreiäkseen (singular translative)
madonreiäksensä (singular translative)
madonrei’ikseen (plural translative)
madonrei’iksensä (plural translative)
madonreiättään (abessive singular)
madonreiättänsä (abessive singular)
madonrei’ittään (abessive plural)
madonrei’ittänsä (abessive plural)
madonreikineen (comitative plural)
madonreikinensä (comitative plural)


boldly go where no man has gone before

en-verb

boldly go<goes,,went,gone> where no man has gone before

boldly go where no man has gone before (third-person singular simple present boldly goes where no man has gone before, present participle boldly going where no man has gone before, simple past boldly went where no man has gone before, past participle boldly gone where no man has gone before)

en-au-boldly go where no man has gone before.ogg

A line from the opening sequence of the Star Trek TV series.

While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he set foot on an airbus to Dubai knowing that 2012 represents the last great examination of his side.

2012 January 2, Paul Newman, “Tough Trek ahead but Strauss' men know winning in Asia is the final frontier”, in the Mail online:

E-Racer Based loosely upon one of the original Rutan designs, the airplane goes where no man has gone before. In the first place, the composite canard machine is the first known example of the Rutan Long-EZ clones to have

1998 April, Budd Davisson, “Skyburners”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 165, page 68:

These were the voyages of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, Nordenskjold, Borchgrevink, de Gerlache and von Drygalski, Filchner, Shirase, Bruce and Bull, national heroes most of them, who boldly went where no man had gone before.

1990, John Stewart, Antarctica: an encyclopedia: Volume 1:


aérotrain

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 as aéro-train.

(obsolete, science fiction) aerotrain (flying vehicle)


isochronon

A bedside isochronon diffused a soft-light 9:30

1980, Felix C. Gotschalk, “The Wishes of Maidens”, in George R. R. Martin, editor, New Voices III: The Campbell Award Nominees, page 175:

(chiefly science fiction) A clock designed to keep very accurate time.


黒神子

黒神子 (canonical)
kuro miko (romanization)


黒巫女

黒巫女 (canonical)
kuro miko (romanization)


what-iffery

[…] what if Jonah is a piece of what-iffery, a story, an experiment with words, rather than a carefully honed piece of polemic […]

2000, Yvonne Sherwood, A biblical text and its afterlives, page 209:

The film's what-iffery becomes even more compelling when Blair, played, as in A Very Social Secretary, by a twitchingly reptilian Robert Lindsay, decides to stand down shortly before the 2010 general election.

2007 January 9, Stuart Jeffries, “A prime minister in the dock”, in The Guardian:

My name is Greg Jenner, and I'm pathologically sceptical towards historical what-iffery. Let me clarify—there's nothing wrong with asking, ‘What if this hadn't happened?’

2021, Greg Jenner, Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know, Hachette, →ISBN:

(informal) Speculation as to what might have happened if things had happened differently.


klingono

eo-head

klingono (accusative singular klingonon, plural klingonoj, accusative plural klingonojn)

klingonon (accusative singular)
klingonoj (plural)
klingonojn (accusative plural)

From English Klingon, from the Star Trek franchise.

Bonvolu, Ŝipestro, ne antaŭ la klingonoj.

Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons.

Ofte, la klingonoj ne parolas bone ankaux.

1997 September 25, Magnulus, “Re: Anything, anyone, anywhere?”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet), message-ID <19970925173301.NAA25171@ladder02.news.aol.com>:

Often, the Klingons don't speak [Klingon] well too.

Kiam la Klingonoj skribas sian lingvon, ili uzas sian propran alfabeton.

2001 January 1, Ferdinand Cesarano, “Re: is klingon difficult to learn ?”, in alt.startrek (Usenet), message-ID <6831-3A50E44E-20@storefull-125.iap.bryant.webtv.net>:

When the Klingons write their language, they use their own alphabet.

Pli precize, 37 estajxoj -- laux la fotajxoj evidentas, ke parto de la partoprenantoj estis ne homoj sed klingonoj ...

2003 April 3, Don Harlow, “Re: El New Scientist”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet), message-ID <<3AC984EB.27727.141ECE22@localhos>:

More precisely, 37 beings -- as the photos show, some of the participants were not people [humans] but Klingons.

(usually in the plural) a Klingon (member of a fictional extraterrestrial warrior race in the Star Trek universe)


ancient astronaut

en-noun

ancient astronaut (plural ancient astronauts)

Is it possible for scientists to demonstrate that ancient astronauts have ever been here? No.

2001, Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins, Sidney Harris, Quantum leaps in the wrong direction: where real science ends-- and pseudoscience begins, Joseph Henry Press, page 58

Although academics have spent many hours showing the errors in von Däniken's reasoning, the Ancient Astronaut notion remains alive.

2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, page 530:

According to certain authors, intelligent extraterrestrial beings called ancient astronauts or ancient aliens have visited Earth, and this contacts is connected with the origins or development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.

2011, George Romero, The Rescue, George Romero, page 32:

Any of the extraterrestrial beings that, according to the pseudoscientific belief of paleocontact, visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.

ancien astronaute

extraterrestrial associated with paleocontact


transpeciate

en-verb

transpeciate (third-person singular simple present transpeciates, present participle transpeciating, simple past and past participle transpeciated)

transpeciates (present singular third-person)
transpeciating (participle present)
transpeciated (participle past)
transpeciated (past)

power to transpeciate a man into a horse

1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:

(obsolete or fantasy, transitive, intransitive) To change from one species into another; to transform.


lemures

Coordinate term: Lares

The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint.

1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

So still lay the figure, and so dim was its outline, that any other than Arbaces might have felt a superstitious fear, lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who, above all other spots, haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 13:

(Roman mythology) The spirits or ghosts of the dead, considered as malignant.


lemures

la-noun

lemurēs m pl (genitive lemurum); third declension

lemurēs (canonical masculine plural)
lemurum (genitive)
lemurēs (nominative plural)
lemurum (genitive plural)
lemuribus (dative plural)
lemurēs (accusative plural)
lemuribus (ablative plural)
lemurēs (plural vocative)

English: lemur, lemures

French: lémur, lémure

[ˈɫ̪ɛmʊreːs̠]

According to de Vaan, from a substrate source along with Ancient Greek Λαμία (Lamía), possibly Etruscan or Anatolian. The two words may have existed as a late Proto-Indo-European stem *lem- (“ghost, nocturnal spirit”).


pegacorn

It was a flying horse — no, a unicorn — or a pegacorn? — feathery wings outstretched.

2006 July 11, Alea Bushardt, Cloud Filly, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

Pegacorns have grown in both popularity and population since their worldwide introduction during the 1980s. While they had existed for eons prior, few unicorn farmers wished to voluntarily care for both the temperamental nature of the Pegasus and the attention-craving disposition of the unicorn. However, when those farmers had the opportunity to soar high and fast into the clouds on the Pegacorn, they had an abrupt change of opinion.

2011 August 18, Jessica S. Marquis, Raising Unicorns: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Running a Successful — and Magical! — Unicorn Farm, Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 18:

At the end of each episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, one of the show's cartoon ponies dictates a letter to the pegacorn Princess Celestia, telling her what she's learned about friendship.

2012 January 15, Lauren Davis, “GlaDOS reads her letter to Princess Celestia”, in io9, archived from the original on 2012-02-04:

(informal) A horned Pegasus or a winged unicorn.


UFO religion

Raelians follow a UFO religion.

More particularly, and important for understanding much UFO religions, is Blavatsky's belief that certain masters dwelt on Venus.

2003, Christopher Hugh Partridge, UFO religions, Routledge, page 10:

UFO religions are even stranger than science fiction.

2004, Susan J. Palmer, Aliens adored: Raël's UFO religion, Rutgers University Press, page 3:

UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.

2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 167:

A religion in which extraterrestrials figure prominently.


slashfic

en-noun

slashfic (countable and uncountable, plural slashfics)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-slashfic.wav

(uncountable) Short for slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction.


slash fiction

slash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural slash fictions)

From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.

But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.

2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169:

They analyze slash fiction (stories about romantic and sexual relationships between two male characters, some of which involve graphic descriptions of sex), and argue that the similarities between romance novels and slash fiction prove gender differences exist.

2009, Mark Bould, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge, page 208:

Over the years, slash writers have started dismissing as homophobic this trope of men having sex with men without identifying as homosexual or bisexual; nevertheless, much slash fiction retains the trope's underlying sentiment of true love and devotion transcending all external rules.

2009, Robin Anne Reid, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 282:

(uncountable) A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).


Spockish

en-adj

Spockish (comparative more Spockish, superlative most Spockish)

more Spockish (comparative)
most Spockish (superlative)

Gary Oldman is pale with pale blue eyes and Spockish ears.

1997, Film review: Special: Issues 18-21:

In the early shows, Leonard Nimoy and the various writers and directors struggled to find the Spockish response to emotionally charged situations.

1998, Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney, Leonard Nimoy, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, page 89:

Rather like the Spockish character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, psychology is coming to appreciate the power and virtues of emotions in mental life, as well as their dangers.

2009, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, page 41:

It is not driven by the fiction of optimization in the manner of Dr.^([sic]) Spock in Star Trek―obsessively using high-tech logic tools. Such a Spockish approach often tends to mis-characterize the nature of the problem when the environment is complex, turbulent and evolving.

2010, Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet, The Case for Decentralized Federalism, page 211:

Resembling or characteristic of the Star Trek character Mr Spock, especially in being excessively logical and emotionless.


teleportal

(science fiction) A teleporter; a device for instantaneous travel.


progressive metal

The “progressive metal” movement began in the 1990s with the group Dream Theater.

2001, Pat Browne, The guide to United States popular culture, Popular Press, page 373:

In 1988 they reached their true breakthrough both as a progressive metal band and as a commercial force with Operation Mindcrime, a concept album whose progressive elements were supplemented by symphonic arrangements played by a live orchestra.

2003, Daniel Bukszpan, Ronnie James Dio, The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal, Barnes & Noble Publishing, page 106:

Formed in 1987 by guitarist Kevin Heidbreder and bassist John Emery, St. Louis' Anacrusis grew from a talented thrash outfit to one of the most highly respected progressive metal bands in the United States.

2005, Joel McIver, Extreme Metal II, Music Sales Group, page 25:

a subgenre of heavy metal with progressive rock influences


galdre

galdre (nominative singular)
galdras (nominative plural)
galdre (accusative singular)
galdras (accusative plural)
galdres (genitive singular)
galdra (genitive plural)
galdre (dative singular)
galdrum (dative plural)

From galdor (“enchantment”) + -ere (“agent suffix”).


parseltongue

Coined as Parseltongue by J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). J. K. Rowling stated that she based the term on an "old word for someone who has a problem with the mouth, like a hare lip".

Now I can't get this out of my head - them hissing and whispering at one another like they're speaking in parseltongue.

2005 December 1, Aisling Willow Grey, “Re: AMC -- Kendall (and Ryan too)”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), message-ID <0001HW.BFB4D67000210837F0284550@news.verizon.net>:

Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue.

2007 April 3, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Roadtripping USA: The Complete Coast-to-Coast Guide to America, 2nd edition, Macmillan, page 496:

“Parseltongue, that's what I need,” I murmured out loud as I brushed my teeth. A language for communicating with snakes.

2009 September 22, Sara Paretsky, Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →OL:

A fictional language of snakes in the Harry Potter universe.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling


venusiano

it-adj

venusiano (feminine venusiana, masculine plural venusiani, feminine plural venusiane)

venusiana (feminine)
venusiani (masculine plural)
venusiane (feminine plural)

Venusian (of, from or relating to Venus)


venusiano

it-noun

venusiano m (plural venusiani, feminine venusiana)

Venusian (native or inhabitant of Venus) (male or of unspecified gender)


venusiano

(science fiction) Venusian (inhabitant of Venus)


venusiano

es-adj

venusiano (feminine venusiana, masculine plural venusianos, feminine plural venusianas)

venusiana (feminine)
venusianos (masculine plural)
venusianas (feminine plural)


venusiano

es-noun

venusiano m (plural venusianos, feminine venusiana, feminine plural venusianas)

venusianos (plural)
venusiana (feminine)
venusianas (feminine plural)


sea drake

When, after the death of the son, Beowulf and his companions pursued the mother into her retreat, they found the water full of sea-drakes and serpents (wyrm-cynnes fela), and nicers lying on the banks.

1834 July, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:

Sea drakes are also known to travel up the Rhone river to spawn in Lake Geneva, creating a hazard for shipping.

2011, Jason Rice, Brent Evanger, Kingdoms of Legend: Knights of France, page 23:

The sea drake uncoiled from the palace as they approached .

2020, Natalie Grey, Saira & the Dragon's Egg:

The monster, a subspecies of dragon, was a sea drake.

2024, Hagure Metabo, A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even:


ufólogo

pt-noun

ufólogo m (plural ufólogos, feminine ufóloga, feminine plural ufólogas)

ufólogos (plural)
ufóloga (feminine)
ufólogas (feminine plural)


ufológico

pt-adj

ufológico (feminine ufológica, masculine plural ufológicos, feminine plural ufológicas, not comparable)

ufológica (feminine)
ufológicos (masculine plural)
ufológicas (feminine plural)


chupa-chupa

— De forma nenhuma, Cruz. Esse homem foi morto porque sabia demais sobre essas luzes que o povo chama de “Chupa-chupa”.

1983, Márcio Souza, A ordem do dia: folhetim voador não identificado, Editora Marco Zero, page 61

— No way, Cruz. This man was killed because he knew too much about these lights the people call “Chupa-chupa”.

1995, Fernando Cleto Nunes Pereira, Que Ciência Constrói Discos Voadores?, Editora Record, page 43

She carefully described how a certain type of light, also known as “chupa-chupa”, appeared in the North and Northeast of Brazil, attacking human beings who were resting lying in hammocks.

Ela descreveu cuidadosamente como um certo tipo de luz, também conhecida como “chupa-chupa”, surgiu no Norte e Nordeste do Brasil, atacando seres humanos que descansavam deitados em redes.

1997, Rodolfo A. Franconi, Erotismo e Poder na Ficção Brasileira Contemporânea, Annablume, page 52

The “disappearing phenomenon” is attributed to extraterrestrial forces: a spacecraft, the “Chupa-chupa”, is the cause of the unexplainable.

O “fenômeno dos desaparecimentos” é atribuído a forças extraterrenas: uma nave espacial, o “Chupa-chupa”, é a causadora do inexplicável.

April 2003, Pablo Villarrubia Mauso, O mistério das luzes assassinas na Amazônia Ufo magazine, page 35

That man had knowledge about extremely important and unknown details of the Chupa-Chupa's action in the region, such as marks left by the strange flying artefact.

Aquele homem tinha conhecimento de detalhes importantíssimos e desconhecidos da ação do Chupa-Chupa na região, como as marcas deixadas pelo estranho artefato voador.

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

(Brazil) unidentified flying objects associated with the Colares UFO wave


óvni

From the pronunciation of the initialism OVNI (“objeto voador não identificado, UFO”) as if it were a word.


glitchcore

Herbert is a former piano prodigy and Exeter drama student who went from touring with UK big bands to freaking clubbers with samplers and kitchen utensils, and his cozy records merge glitchcore buzz and tech-house heat […]

2001 March, SPIN, volume 17, number 3, page 150:

Rather than UR-styled militant Techno, the first two singles, sleeved in exploding vector designs, showcase the glitchcore sounds of code warriors like Richard Devine, Kero and Mode Selektor.


objeto voador não identificado

pt-noun

objeto voador não identificado m (plural objetos voadores não identificados)

objetos voadores não identificados (plural)

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vu.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vu.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɦ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vu.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/o.biˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vu.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du/

[obˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[o.biˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[obˈʒɛ.tu vo.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[obˈʒɛ.tu vʊ.aˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

[obˈʒɛ.tu vwaˈdoʁ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.du]

/obˈʒɛ.to vo.aˈdoɻ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.do/

[obˈʒɛ.to vo.aˈdoɻ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.do]

/o.biˈʒɛ.to vo.aˈdoɻ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.do/

[o.biˈʒɛ.to vo.aˈdoɻ ˈnɐ̃ʊ̯̃ i.dẽ.t͡ʃi.fiˈka.do]

/ɔˈbʒɛ.tu vwɐˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.ti.fiˈka.du/

[ɔˈβʒɛ.tu vwɐˈðoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.ðẽ.ti.fiˈka.ðu]

/ɔˈbʒɛ.tu bwɐˈdoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.ti.fiˈka.du/

[ɔˈβʒɛ.tu βwɐˈðoɾ ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.ðẽ.ti.fiˈka.ðu]

/ɔˈbʒɛ.tu vwɐˈdo.ɾi ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.dẽ.ti.fiˈka.du/

[ɔˈβʒɛ.tu vwɐˈðo.ɾi ˈnɐ̃w̃ i.ðẽ.ti.fiˈka.ðu]

Literally, “flying object not identified”. Calque of English unidentified flying object.

calque

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

unidentified flying object (anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air)


policíaco

es-adj

policíaco (feminine policíaca, masculine plural policíacos, feminine plural policíacas)

policíaca (feminine)
policíacos (masculine plural)
policíacas (feminine plural)

novela policíaca

crime novel, procedural; crime fiction, whodunit, detective fiction

serie policíaca

procedural, procedural television show, crime series


spaceway

At first Gallagher and his glacier were a roar of laughter that swept the spaceways[…]

1964, John Wood Campbell, Analog science fact/science fiction:

(science fiction) A route used for travel or shipping in outer space.


contato imediato

pt-noun

contato imediato m (plural contatos imediatos)


teleportage

At the same time there is no fantasy, as there is in the teleportage of science fiction, or in the Greek myth that requires the insemination of a woman by a swan.

2010, Jeffrey Boss, Human Consciousness of God in the Book of Job, page 158:


როკი

roḳi (romanization)
როკი (nominative singular)
როკმა (ergative singular)
როკს (dative singular)
როკს (dative singular)
როკსაs) (dative singular)
როკსაsa) (dative singular)
როკის (genitive singular)
როკის (genitive singular)
როკისაs) (genitive singular)
როკისაsa) (genitive singular)
როკით (instrumental singular)
როკით (instrumental singular)
როკითაt) (instrumental singular)
როკითაta) (instrumental singular)
როკად (adverbial singular)
როკად (adverbial singular)
როკადაd) (adverbial singular)
როკადაda) (adverbial singular)
როკო (singular vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
როკზე (singular)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
როკთან (singular)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
როკში (singular)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
როკივით (singular)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
როკისთვის (singular)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
როკისებრ (singular)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
როკისკენ (singular)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
როკისგან (singular)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
როკიდან (singular)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
როკითურთ (singular)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
როკამდე (singular)


φίλτρον

grc-noun

φῐ́λτρον • (phíltron) n (genitive φῐ́λτρου); second declension

φῐ́λτρον (canonical)
phíltron (romanization)
φῐ́λτρου (genitive)
τὸ φῐ́λτρον (nominative singular)
τὼ φῐ́λτρω (dual nominative)
τᾰ̀ φῐ́λτρᾰ (nominative plural)
τοῦ φῐ́λτρου (genitive singular)
τοῖν φῐ́λτροιν (dual genitive)
τῶν φῐ́λτρων (genitive plural)
τῷ φῐ́λτρῳ (dative singular)
τοῖν φῐ́λτροιν (dative dual)
τοῖς φῐ́λτροις (dative plural)
τὸ φῐ́λτρον (accusative singular)
τὼ φῐ́λτρω (accusative dual)
τᾰ̀ φῐ́λτρᾰ (accusative plural)
φῐ́λτρον (singular vocative)
φῐ́λτρω (dual vocative)
φῐ́λτρᾰ (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Latin: philtrum
→ English: philter, philtrum
French: feutre
→ Italian: filtro
Sicilian: firtru
→ French: philtre (learned)

From φῐλέω (philéō, “to love; to kiss”) + -τρον (-tron, instrument noun suffix).

af

love-charm, spell to produce love, whether a potion, or any other means

(anatomy) sinking on the upper lip; philtrum


hidra

hidrák (plural)
hidra (nominative singular)
hidrák (nominative plural)
hidrát (accusative singular)
hidrákat (accusative plural)
hidrának (dative singular)
hidráknak (dative plural)
hidrával (instrumental singular)
hidrákkal (instrumental plural)
hidráért (causal-final singular)
hidrákért (causal-final plural)
hidrává (singular translative)
hidrákká (plural translative)
hidráig (singular terminative)
hidrákig (plural terminative)
hidraként (essive-formal singular)
hidrákként (essive-formal plural)
hidrában (inessive singular)
hidrákban (inessive plural)
hidrán (singular superessive)
hidrákon (plural superessive)
hidránál (adessive singular)
hidráknál (adessive plural)
hidrába (illative singular)
hidrákba (illative plural)
hidrára (singular sublative)
hidrákra (plural sublative)
hidrához (allative singular)
hidrákhoz (allative plural)
hidrából (elative singular)
hidrákból (elative plural)
hidráról (delative singular)
hidrákról (delative plural)
hidrától (ablative singular)
hidráktól (ablative plural)
hidráé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
hidráké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
hidráéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
hidrákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
hidrám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
hidráim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
hidrád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
hidráid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
hidrája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
hidrái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
hidránk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
hidráink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
hidrátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
hidráitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
hidrájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
hidráik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(mythology, fantasy) hydra (dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed)


hidra

Borrowed from Latin hydra, from Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra).


unipeg

The balck^([sic]) and silver unipeg lands and folds his wings remebering^([sic]) the big earth drac.

1999 January 27, Twyligtsky, “Re: the inn”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990126223406.16200.00003652@ng126.aol.com>:

But, I think it will be too risky to try and steal horses, unipegs, pegasi, or unicorns. There are spells cast on the animals to keep track of them.

2004, Myles Brandon Hibbett, Zephyr Spheres and the Lost Spell, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49:

As she whistled the horse, which Aries said was a Unipeg, which was a combination of a Pegasus and a unicorn landed right there smack in front of Mary it just landed and stared her right in the eyes.

2011 October 24, Mercedes Burgos-Diaz, Meenah, the Mystical Princess of Zantel, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 20:


unisus

Unisi are unicorns with pegasi wings, the result of crossbreeding between the two species. A single such creature is called a unisus.

1993 February, Michael John II Wybo, “Unique Unicorns”, in Dragon Magazine, number 190, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OL, page 92:

As for her horse, it was Spirit when she was Adora, and Swift Wind the flying unicorn (unisus?) when she was She-Ra.

1995 July 30, pteryx, “He-man. she-ra's horse's”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID <9507301040.0EZSC00@acornbbs.com>:

Heat was a unisus and Mich's best friend. He had once belonged to a huge herd of unisi that lived in the sky, above the clouds.

1998 November 15, Piers Anthony with Julie Brady, Dream a Little Dream: A tale of myth and moonshine, Tor, →ISBN, →OL, page 19:

The beauty of the Unisus was simply extraordinary. Its silver-feathered wings stretched across the room, fifteen feet in length. Its glorious, glowing white fur was so pure that it would be invisible in the snow.

2006 September 8, Jacob Cortez, The Legend of the Teenage Sages, Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 267:


owlbear

From owl + bear. Coined by Gary Gygax in the 1970s for Dungeons & Dragons.

I don't usually survive long enough to get surrounded by owlbears[…]

1997, Terence Fergusson, “Murphy's Laws of NetHack”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

He played stupid—he looked at my scars and feigned confusion as he dropped the kindling.
“What happened?” he asked.
“An owlbear attacked,” I answered wryly. He sat down with us, and between their powers, I started to heal.

2010, Maia Jacomus, Loki: Why I Began the End:

(fantasy) A monstrous creature resembling a bear with a beak.


cuarteto

Borrowed from Spanish cuarteto (“quartet”), because the early dance-hall numbers were invariably four-piece bands (violin, piano, accordion, bass). Doublet of quartet.

(music) An upbeat genre of music from Argentina, descended from Italian and Spanish dance ensembles.


autofiction

en-noun

autofiction (countable and uncountable, plural autofictions)

Borrowed from French autofiction, blend of autobiography + fiction.

On the other hand, autofiction has afforded many writers a means to deal with the self in a way that straddles the genres of classic literature and goes beyond its culturally determined norms. Autofiction reveals existential motives for writing, raising them to the status of components in the autobiographical debate.

2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, editor, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 245:

A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.


basilicok

From Old French basilicoc, extension of basilique.

14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson’s Tale

The first finger [of the devil’s hand] is the foolish looking of the foolish woman and of the foolish man; that slays just as the basilisk slays folk by the venom of his sight, for the covetousness of the eyes follows the covetousness of the heart.

The first fingre is the foole loking of the foole woman and of the foole man, that sleth right as the basilicok sleth folk by venime of his sight: for the coveitise of the eyen foloweth the coveitise of the herte.


mammaloid

(science fiction) A mammalian humanoid creature.


serpiente marina

es-noun

serpiente marina f (plural serpientes marinas)


ܪܝܡܐ

head

ܪܝܡܐ • (transliteration needed) m (plural ܪܝܡܐ)

ܪܝܡܐ (plural)
ܪܝܡ (absolute singular)
ܪܝܡܝܢ (absolute plural)
ܪܝܡ (construct singular)
ܪܝܡܝ (construct plural)
ܪܝܡܐ (emphatic singular)
ܪܝܡܐ (emphatic plural)
ܪܝܡܝ (common-gender first-person possessive singular)
ܪܝܡܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܪܝܡܝܟ (masculine possessive second-person singular)
ܪܝܡܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܪܝܡܝܟܝ (feminine possessive second-person singular)
ܪܝܡܗ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܪܝܡܘܗܝ (masculine possessive singular third-person)
ܪܝܡܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܪܝܡܝܗ (feminine possessive singular third-person)
ܪܝܡܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܪܝܡܝܢ (common-gender first-person plural possessive)
ܪܝܡܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܪܝܡܝܟܘܢ (masculine plural possessive second-person)
ܪܝܡܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܪܝܡܝܟܝܢ (feminine plural possessive second-person)
ܪܝܡܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܪܝܡܝܗܘܢ (masculine plural possessive third-person)
ܪܝܡܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)
ܪܝܡܝܗܝܢ (feminine plural possessive third-person)

From the root ܪ-ܘ-ܡ (r-w-m) related to height.

raising, elevating, lifting up, erection


ܪܝܡܐ

From Aramaic 𐡌𐡀𐡓 (mʾr). Compare Arabic رِيم (rīm) and Hebrew רְאֵם (rəʾēm).

(biblical) addax, pygarg (used to translate Hebrew dishon)


مريخي

ar-nisba

مِرِّيخِيّ • (mirrīḵiyy) (feminine مِرِّيخِيَّة (mirrīḵiyya), masculine plural مِرِّيخِيُّونَ (mirrīḵiyyūna), feminine plural مِرِّيخِيَّات (mirrīḵiyyāt))

مِرِّيخِيّ (canonical)
mirrīḵiyy (romanization)
مِرِّيخِيَّة (feminine)
مِرِّيخِيُّونَ (masculine plural)
مِرِّيخِيَّات (feminine plural)
مِرِّيخِي (indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِي (definite informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّة (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّة (ar-infl-a definite feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيٌّ (indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيُّ (definite masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةٌ (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةُ (ar-infl-a definite feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيًّا (accusative indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّ (accusative definite masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةً (accusative ar-infl-a feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيٍّ (genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّ (definite genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةٍ (ar-infl-a feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةِ (ar-infl-a definite feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْن (dual indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْن (definite dual informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّانِ (dual indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّانِ (definite dual masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (accusative definite dual masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (definite dual genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيِّين (indefinite informal masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّين (definite informal masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيُّونَ (indefinite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيُّونَ (definite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّينَ (accusative indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّينَ (accusative definite masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّينَ (genitive indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّينَ (definite genitive masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)

Relative adjective (nisba) composed of الْمِرِّيخ (al-mirrīḵ, “Mars”) + ـِيّ (-iyy).


مريخي

مِرِّيخِيّ (canonical)
mirrīḵiyy (romanization)
مِرِّيخِيُّونَ (plural)
مِرِّيخِيَّة (feminine)
مِرِّيخِي (indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِي (definite informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِي (construct informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّة (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّة (ar-infl-a definite feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّة (ar-infl-a construct feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيٌّ (indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيُّ (definite masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيُّ (construct masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةٌ (ar-infl-a feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةُ (ar-infl-a definite feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةُ (ar-infl-a construct feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيًّا (accusative indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّ (accusative definite masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّ (accusative construct masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةً (accusative ar-infl-a feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيٍّ (genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّ (definite genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيِّ (construct genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةٍ (ar-infl-a feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّةِ (ar-infl-a definite feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّةِ (ar-infl-a construct feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْن (dual indefinite informal masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْن (definite dual informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْ (construct dual informal masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual feminine informal singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّانِ (dual indefinite masculine nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّانِ (definite dual masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّا (construct dual masculine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual feminine nominative singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (accusative definite dual masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْ (accusative construct dual masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual feminine indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual feminine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite masculine singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّيْنِ (definite dual genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّيْ (construct dual genitive masculine singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual feminine genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيَّتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual feminine genitive singular triptote)
مِرِّيخِيِّين (indefinite informal masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّين (definite informal masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّي (construct informal masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّات (construct feminine informal plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيُّونَ (indefinite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيُّونَ (definite masculine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيُّو (construct masculine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتُ (construct feminine nominative plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّينَ (accusative indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّينَ (accusative definite masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّي (accusative construct masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (accusative construct feminine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّينَ (genitive indefinite masculine plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيِّينَ (definite genitive masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيِّي (construct genitive masculine plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الْمِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)
مِرِّيخِيَّاتِ (construct feminine genitive plural sound-form)


drighten

From Middle English drihten, from Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to hold, hold fast, support”), equivalent to dright (“army, host”) + -en. Cognate with Scots drichtin, drichtine (“lord, the Lord”), and with Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Old High German truhtin, Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”) (dialectal German Trechtin, Trechtein (“lord, God”)), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“a multitude, an army, company, body of retainers, nation, a people, men”), Old English ġedryht (“fortune, fate”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree.

cog

Believe me, my drighten, there is not one of us that has ever slacked on watch before!

(historical, Anglo-Saxon, Norse mythology, fantasy, paganism) A lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince.


დისკო

ka-noun

დისკო • (disḳo) (plural დისკოები)

disḳo (romanization)
დისკოები (plural)
დისკო (nominative singular)
დისკოები (nominative plural)
დისკონი (archaic nominative plural)
დისკომ (ergative singular)
დისკოებმა (ergative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
დისკოს (dative singular)
დისკოს (dative singular)
დისკოსაs) (dative singular)
დისკოსაsa) (dative singular)
დისკოებს (dative plural)
დისკოებს (dative plural)
დისკოებსაs) (dative plural)
დისკოებსაsa) (dative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთ (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic dative plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic dative plural)
დისკოს (genitive singular)
დისკოს (genitive singular)
დისკოსაs) (genitive singular)
დისკოსაsa) (genitive singular)
დისკოების (genitive plural)
დისკოების (genitive plural)
დისკოებისაs) (genitive plural)
დისკოებისაsa) (genitive plural)
დისკოთ (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთ (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
დისკოთ (instrumental singular)
დისკოთ (instrumental singular)
დისკოთაt) (instrumental singular)
დისკოთაta) (instrumental singular)
დისკოებით (instrumental plural)
დისკოებით (instrumental plural)
დისკოებითაt) (instrumental plural)
დისკოებითაta) (instrumental plural)
დისკოდ (adverbial singular)
დისკოდ (adverbial singular)
დისკოდაd) (adverbial singular)
დისკოდაda) (adverbial singular)
დისკოებად (adverbial plural)
დისკოებად (adverbial plural)
დისკოებადაd) (adverbial plural)
დისკოებადაda) (adverbial plural)
დისკოვ (singular vocative)
დისკოებო (plural vocative)
დისკონო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
დისკოზე (singular)
დისკოებზე (plural)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
დისკოსთან (singular)
დისკოებთან (plural)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
დისკოში (singular)
დისკოებში (plural)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
დისკოსავით (singular)
დისკოებივით (plural)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
დისკოსთვის (singular)
დისკოებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
დისკოსებრ (singular)
დისკოებისებრ (plural)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
დისკოსკენ (singular)
დისკოებისკენ (plural)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
დისკოსგან (singular)
დისკოებისგან (plural)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
დისკოდან (singular)
დისკოებიდან (plural)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
დისკოთურთ (singular)
დისკოებითურთ (plural)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
დისკომდე (singular)
დისკოებამდე (plural)


ელფი

elpi (romanization)
ელფები (plural)
ელფი (nominative singular)
ელფები (nominative plural)
ელფნი (archaic nominative plural)
ელფმა (ergative singular)
ელფებმა (ergative plural)
ელფთ (archaic ergative plural)
ელფთ (archaic ergative plural)
ელფთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
ელფთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
ელფს (dative singular)
ელფს (dative singular)
ელფსაs) (dative singular)
ელფსაsa) (dative singular)
ელფებს (dative plural)
ელფებს (dative plural)
ელფებსაs) (dative plural)
ელფებსაsa) (dative plural)
ელფთ (archaic dative plural)
ელფთ (archaic dative plural)
ელფთაt) (archaic dative plural)
ელფთაta) (archaic dative plural)
ელფის (genitive singular)
ელფის (genitive singular)
ელფისაs) (genitive singular)
ელფისაsa) (genitive singular)
ელფების (genitive plural)
ელფების (genitive plural)
ელფებისაs) (genitive plural)
ელფებისაsa) (genitive plural)
ელფთ (archaic genitive plural)
ელფთ (archaic genitive plural)
ელფთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
ელფთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
ელფით (instrumental singular)
ელფით (instrumental singular)
ელფითაt) (instrumental singular)
ელფითაta) (instrumental singular)
ელფებით (instrumental plural)
ელფებით (instrumental plural)
ელფებითაt) (instrumental plural)
ელფებითაta) (instrumental plural)
ელფად (adverbial singular)
ელფად (adverbial singular)
ელფადაd) (adverbial singular)
ელფადაda) (adverbial singular)
ელფებად (adverbial plural)
ელფებად (adverbial plural)
ელფებადაd) (adverbial plural)
ელფებადაda) (adverbial plural)
ელფო (singular vocative)
ელფებო (plural vocative)
ელფნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე (postpositional with-dative)
ელფზე (singular)
ელფებზე (plural)
-თან (postpositional with-dative)
ელფთან (singular)
ელფებთან (plural)
-ში (postpositional with-dative)
ელფში (singular)
ელფებში (plural)
-ვით (postpositional with-dative)
ელფივით (singular)
ელფებივით (plural)
-თვის (postpositional with-genitive)
ელფისთვის (singular)
ელფებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ (postpositional with-genitive)
ელფისებრ (singular)
ელფებისებრ (plural)
-კენ (postpositional with-genitive)
ელფისკენ (singular)
ელფებისკენ (plural)
-გან (postpositional with-genitive)
ელფისგან (singular)
ელფებისგან (plural)
-დან (postpositional with-instrumental)
ელფიდან (singular)
ელფებიდან (plural)
-ურთ (postpositional with-instrumental)
ელფითურთ (singular)
ელფებითურთ (plural)
-მდე (postpositional with-adverb)
ელფამდე (singular)
ელფებამდე (plural)

(fantasy, mythology) elf, leprechaun, sprite


ahuizote

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āhuitzotl.

bor+

ahuitzotl, an Aztec mythological creature

(colloquial, Honduras, Mexico) an annoying person; pest, nuisance

(dialectal, Central America, Mexico) omen, bewitchment, spell


座敷童

座敷童 (canonical)
zashiki warashi (romanization)

Compound of 座敷 (zashiki, “house; Japanese-style parlor”) + 童 (warashi, “child”).

compound

(Japanese mythology, Tōhoku) a kind of yōkai: a red-faced ghost or apparition of a child haunting an old house, generally not malevolent, and thought to bring good fortune to the house


asteroidian

But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.

1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:

Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.

2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:

What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.

2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157:

(science fiction) One who is from or lives on an asteroid.


iguanoid

Because rumor has it, that they are three times as ugly, meaner, greedier and war mongering than the Earthlings, could ever be. Yes, if you can believe it, they are even worse than the Iguanoids.

2013, R. J. Denardo, The Captain's Propensity: The Andromeda Incident II, page 179:

Iguanoids stand three foot five to five five and use their long tail for balance.

2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, page 231:

The Chameleons, another species connected to the Iguanoids, are characterized as a colorful race of reptilians that serve as watchers or guards for the Draco Reptilians, informing them of the political events taking place around the galaxy.

2023, Malik Bade, The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition, page 161:

(science fiction) A type of reptilian (reptilian alien)


kitbash

en-verb

kitbash (third-person singular simple present kitbashes, present participle kitbashing, simple past and past participle kitbashed)

kitbashes (present singular third-person)
kitbashing (participle present)
kitbashed (participle past)
kitbashed (past)

But, a nicely kitbashed hull and cool interior backlights don't help with the major technical hurdles the robot has yet to overcome.

2017 April 30, Captain Disillusion, The Method Robot | Quick D, archived from the original on 2023-12-20:

To create a new scale model using pieces from existing commercial kits.


-punk

First used when coining cyberpunk or as a back-formation to coin steampunk. Probably from the influence of the punk subculture on these genres.

Denotes a futuristic, aesthetically-oriented genre of fiction based on the noun to which it is suffixed, usually involving ahistorical or anachronistic technology and its effects on society.


unbipenti

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ pɛn˧˧ ti˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ pɛŋ˧˧ tɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ pɛŋ˧˧ tɪj˧˧]


unbibi

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧]


unbiuni

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ ʔun˧˧ ni˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ ʔun˧˧ nɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ nɪj˧˧]


unbihexi

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ hɛk̚˧˦ si˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ hɛk̚˦˧˥ sɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ hɛk̚˦˥ sɪj˧˧]


unbiquadi

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ kwaː˧˧ ʔɗi˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ kwaː˧˧ ʔɗɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ waː˧˧ ʔɗɪj˧˧]


clockpunk

The term [steampunk] is also frequently applied to works set in original worlds drawing inspiration from nineteenth century culture and technology, and at times is even used to refer to comparable blends of alternate history and retro-futurism across a much wider historical span (blurring with categories like Renaissance-era "clockpunk" and interwar "dieselpunk").

2011, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Since 1980, Createspace, →ISBN:

Then sometime in the early 90's^([sic]) came steampunk. Alright, that's a little goofy, but people understood what it meant. It was the "punk"-like hacker culture from cyberpunk using Victorian era, steam based technology. […] But authors couldn't stop there! No, they had to go back further and write about clockpunk: hackers in Da Vinci's time making things run on springs and gears and other clockwork.

2011, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 43–44:

Oddly enough, K. W. Jeter wrote a clockpunk novel in 1987 called Infernal Devices. The story takes place in London and involves human-fish hybrids and a brilliant clockwork maker whose father had been experimenting with building automata, clockwork humans.

2013, Lois H. Gresh, The Mortal Instruments Companion, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 132:

A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Renaissance.


sandalpunk

Do you have something against sandalpunk or something? If you don't like that, try some Bacon. Roger Bacon, that is.

2006 March 15, Llewelyn Jones <llywelynjones@yahoo.co.uk>, “ASBs Invade”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet), message-ID <4769418477491436>:

I've been planning out a sort of sandalpunk-leading-to-steampunk alternate history setting for a while, but I've not yet gotten to a satisfactory level of detail or plausibility to do anything but the most basic story-idea-outlining in it.

2006 May 26, Logan Kearsley <chrono.surfer@verizon.net>, “Telling time in antiquity”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <9d3eaa093f0d1c9d>:

The specificity of steampunk's Victorian setting, particular in light of the relative presence and notoriety of steampunk vis-à-vis similar subgenres set in other time periods ('clockpunk' or 'sailpunk' set in the Renaissance, such as Paul McAuley's Pasquale's Angel; 'sandalpunk,' set in a technologically innovative ancient world; 'dieselpunk,' 'stonepunk,' etc.) argues for the importance to the present of shifts in technological culture that took place during the Victorian era.

2011, Noam S. Cohen, Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel, →ISBN:

A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.


sailpunk

Don't forget about chain - great for shredding your target's rigging and not half bad as an antipersonnel round too. (Well, if you're in a "SailPunk" setting it's useful, anyway... Arrr, matey; scupper me wi' a handspike if it ain't so.)

1996 April 27, Carl Perkins <carl@gergo.tamu.edu>, “Re: Barriers”, in rec.games.frp.cyber (Usenet), message-ID <f2ab6ed35a112b8d>:

I notice also that on paper are available nifty and *original* places for live sailpunk RPG'ing but I fear that RN and USN will really frown at the idea of a bunch of live role-players fooling aboard HMS Victory and USS Constitution respectively...

2010 April 25, dott.Piergiorgio <dott.PiergiorgioNIHON@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it>, “Re: Steampunk Martians”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), message-ID <854ef539444badc6>:

A subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.


unbitri

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓi˧˧ tɹi˧˧]

[ʔun˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ tɹɪj˧˧]

[ʔʊwŋ͡m˧˧ ʔɓɪj˧˧ tɹɪj˧˧]


fanac

This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.

1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57:

It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.

1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274:

The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.

2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274:

(dated, fandom slang) The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.


atompunk

In fact, there was a fair amount of stuff around in the 60s and 70s that can only be explained as cross-dimensional leakage from an Atompunk universe.

2001 October 31, Simon Bradshaw, “Re: Steampunk Recommendations?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <memo.20011031191447.43761C@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>:

Perfect "atompunk" feel – reactors with nervous engineers and analog controls.

2002 June 10, Mike Simone, “Re: Land Battleships”, in rec.arts.sf.science, rec.games.design (Usenet), message-ID <152bbdf6.0206101038.72e312be@posting.google.com>:

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be "dieselpunk", "atompunk", or "rocketpunk" – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the "punk" aspect as it's possible to get.

2004 March 6, Michael S. Schiffer, “Re: Earth-2 Legion Synopsis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh (Usenet), message-ID <Xns94A49BD7E514mss2mediaonenet@130.133.1.4>:

According to a mailing list from the Netherlands, Atompunk is devoted to the cultural period (mostly of the United States) of between 1945 to 1965. While the moniker hasn't become a part of our country's vernacular yet (though I'm sure some of you already started using it ages ago), it sounds just annoyingly catchy enough to warrant a New York Times trend piece in about eight years.

2012 April 8, Elaine Chow, “Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2016-08-28:

Atompunk covers the pre-digital period of 1945–1965, including mid-century Modernism, the Atomic Age and Space Age. Throw Roger Thornhill's suits in this basket, and everything ever worn on Mad Men. This takes us right up to the mid '60s, when the fictional worlds of yesterday abut the real worlds you grew up in.

2012, William J. Thompson, “Time Travel”, in Dress Like a Grownup!: A Complete Tutorial for the Average Guy, 2nd edition, volume 1, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 2 (Advanced Theory), page 55:

You keep imagining someone 20 years from now reading The Peripheral the way that we read Neuromancer today, perplexed at the now-unfathomable ubiquity of cassettes and modems. We laugh at the past or mine it for influence – think of steampunk, atompunk, dieselpunk, and the million other microgenres based on the incongruity of old societies and future tech – but someday, the future is going to do the same to us.

2014 October 27, Adi Robertson, “William Gibson’s ‘The Peripheral’: Looking Back at the Future: A Smart, Nuanced Twist on Time Travel”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-05-05:

Additionally, while [Sebastian] Faulks aspires to write as [Ian] Fleming, he takes care to increase the serving of action, in fact including some interesting bits of atompunk—a nuclear-powered ekranoplan, Vulcan bombers.

2015, Nader Elhefnawy, The Forgotten James Bond, [s.l.]: [s.n.]:

(science fiction) A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the society and technology of the Atomic Age (c. 1945–1969).


hypospray

(chiefly science fiction) A kind of jet injector.


ётун

ru-noun+

ётун • (jótun) m anim (genitive ётуна, nominative plural ётуны, genitive plural ётунов)

jótun (romanization)
ётуна (genitive)
ётуны (nominative plural)
ётунов (genitive plural)
ётун (nominative singular)
ётуны (nominative plural)
ётуна (genitive singular)
ётунов (genitive plural)
ётуну (dative singular)
ётунам (dative plural)
ётуна (accusative singular)
ётунов (accusative plural)
ётуном (instrumental singular)
ётунами (instrumental plural)
ётуне (prepositional singular)
ётунах (plural prepositional)


worldbuilder

Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre.

2001, Neal Hallford, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games, page 207:

We are weary of theoretical worldbuilders who strive to construct logical designs that weave together all components of the social fabric.

1989, Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott, A Sociology of the Absurd:

One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.


χαραδριός

grc-noun

χαραδριός • (kharadriós) m (genitive χαραδριοῦ); second declension

kharadriós (romanization)
χαραδριοῦ (genitive)
ὁ χαραδριός (nominative singular)
τὼ χαραδριώ (dual nominative)
οἱ χαραδριοί (nominative plural)
τοῦ χαραδριοῦ (genitive singular)
τοῖν χαραδριοῖν (dual genitive)
τῶν χαραδριῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ χαραδριῷ (dative singular)
τοῖν χαραδριοῖν (dative dual)
τοῖς χαραδριοῖς (dative plural)
τὸν χαραδριόν (accusative singular)
τὼ χαραδριώ (accusative dual)
τοὺς χαραδριούς (accusative plural)
χαραδριέ (singular vocative)
χαραδριώ (dual vocative)
χαραδριοί (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Old Armenian: քարադր (kʻaradr), քաղանդր (kʻałandr), քաղաթր (kʻałatʻr), քաղարդր (kʻałardr), քաղադր (kʻaładr), քաղդր (kʻałdr), քարադրոս (kʻaradros), քարարդ (kʻarard), քառադր (kʻaṙadr), քաղարդ (kʻałard), քաղանդրոս (kʻałandros), քարադրոն (kʻaradron), կալատրիս (kalatris)
→ Old Georgian: ქალანდრო (kalandro), ქარანდრი (karandri)

desc

→ Old Church Slavonic: харадрїонъ (xaradrionŭ), халадреѡнъ (xaladreonŭ), каладриконъ (kaladrikonŭ), каладринѡнъ (kaladrinonŭ), хадрїонъ (xadrionŭ)

→ Old Georgian: ხარადრიონი (xaradrioni)

→ Latin: charadrius, caladrius

→ Russian: хара́др (xarádr), хара́дрий (xarádrij), кала́дрий (kaládrij), кала́дриус (kaládrius)

The formation is similar to other bird names, like αἰγυπιός (aigupiós), αἰγωλιός (aigōliós) and ἐρῳδιός (erōidiós). Traditionally derived from χαράδρα (kharádra, “dry bed of a river”), but it could be folk etymology.

Ἔστι πετεινὸν, λεγόμενον χαλαδριός
Ésti peteinòn, legómenon khaladriós

(Byzantine) caladrius (a mythical bird that had healing powers)


mindpower

en-noun

mindpower (countable and uncountable, plural mindpowers)

mental power; any power of the mind, such as lateral thinking or psychic ability


merhusband

A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband. A mermaid begins to yearn for the wild freedom of life among the waves, and finds it is very difficult to adjust to the dry [...]

1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people:

A merman, especially one who is married; a merman taken as a husband.


merqueen

Have you ever met any from the sea clan Merqueen and Saxon merman […]

2006, Lunar-k, Angels, Fairies, Mermaids & Warriors:

Then Brigit followed singing: The merqueen picks the dolphin, The merqueen picks the dolphin, High, ho, the dario, The merqueen picks the dolphin.

2009, Clark Smith, Patricia Clark Smith, Baiting Hollow: A Time of Enchantment:

A mermaid, especially one who is a queen.


merkingdom

Thus, Eric fulfills his role as heroic rescuer by saving the woman he loves and the merkingdom from danger, and thus a relationship is constructed between a strong, invulnerable heroic protector and weak, vulnerable victims (Ariel and the kingdom).

2011, Justin Charlebois, Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

Merpeople came from all over the merkingdom to visit and study.

2012, Debbie Dadey, Whale of a Tale, Aladdin, →ISBN, page 24:

Marrying Sabyn to get control of a merkingdom that had obviously decided it didn't want me as a ruler was not an acceptable thing to do.

2013, Tracy Deebs, Tempest Revealed, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:


merworld

"I consider myself a reasonable merman," Triton thundered, "but contact between the merworld and the human world is strictly forbidden. Why did you disobey me and rescue that human?"

1996, Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics: From the Fox and the Hound to the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Oliver hadn't written any stories about the merworld, but knowing him there were probably at least a couple pages of notes about the place somewhere in his notebook.

2010, Frédérick S. Parker, Finding the Kingdom of the Centaurs, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 171:

Reflecting a slightly modified version of the hero narrative, Eric rescues Ariel from Ursula and concomitantly saves the merworld from a diabolical female in lieu of a male villain.

(fantasy) The undersea world of merfolk.


mer-

merlady, merfolk, merwife, mermonster

(fantasy) Of, pertaining to, or associated with the realm of mermaids and mermen.


jotun

Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz (“giant”). Doublet of ettin.

Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.

1831, Walter Savage Landor, “Gunlaug”, in Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, →OCLC, page 279:

When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.

1908, The Elementary School Teacher, volume 8, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 214:

When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.

1967, Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in Norse Gods and Giants, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths, New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42

The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.

2001, John Lindow, “The Historical Background”, in Handbook of Norse Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 2:

(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.

Arthur Rackham
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Fafnir
Freyja
Richard Wagner


jotun

jotunen (definite singular)
jotnar (indefinite plural)
jotnane (definite plural)

Learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jøtul and jutul.


merbaby

"She should have stayed in the ocean where she belonged. She could have married some nice young merman and had some cute little merbabies and lived a long, happy life—"

1997, Elizabeth Lane, The Tycoon and the Townie, Harlequin, →ISBN:

There were mermaids with gold chains around slinky long tails, swimming along with little merchildren. One had a merbaby on her back, the tiniest little pink tail sticking out from under its sling.

2003, Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 57:

But Anna held the merbaby tight and carried her towards the sea.

2009, Penny Kendal, Merbaby, Evans Brothers Limited, →ISBN, page 35:


merwife

From Old English merewīf (“water witch, mermaid”), from Proto-West Germanic *mariwīb, from Proto-Germanic *mariwībą (“mermaid, siren”). By surface analysis, mer- + wife. Cognate with Old High German meriwīb.


merland

"I know what you would say and I know what I should answer, dear Ulfin, if you were only a commoner of Merland. ... and I am a Mermaid, […]"

[…] or she could bolt and hurry back to the shore, hoping that two wolphins might return to haul her tired body back to Merland off Oregon.

2010, Judith Gilman, Mermaids of the Siuslaw:

A mythical land of mermaids and merfolk.


merknight

[…] while merknights in full armour give their own demonstration of fishy combat tactics.

1967, Bridget Ann Henisch, Medieval Armchair Travels, Carnation Press (1967), page 38

However, it is the scilla's cousin the "merknight" (Fig. 107) who most closely resembles the curious armored fish men that Bosch portrays.

1981, Laurinda S. Dixon, Alchemical Imagery in Bosch's Garden of Delights, UMI Research Press, →ISBN, page 44:

It is etched and gilded overall, the themes of the decoration including, on the leg defences, the labours of Hercules, and on the upper half a merknight and mermaid, supplemented with elephants and castles, and various putti and animals.

2009, Graeme Rimer, Thom Richardson, J.P.D. Cooper, editors, Henry VIII: Arms and the Man, 1509-2009, Royal Armouries, →ISBN, page 151:


merfather

"I shall never see my merfather or my mermother any more, or the mermaids, or the fish-king, or the merry dolphins, or-r-r-r " —
"Never mind!" cried Elfie, crying too, and she put her arms around the sad little mermaid's neck.

1882, E. L. P, Elfie Under the Sea and Other Stories, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., page 21:

"Danya, you think if you believe in your merfather and Ayralon, it's like rejecting your parents. Especially your stepfather. Is that true?"

2004, Vicki Blum, The Mermaid Secret, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 63:

Two eighth-graders (Emma Roberts and JoJo) befriend a mermaid (Sara Paxton) who has three days to prove to her merfather that love exists.

2006 March 3, Roger Ebert, “'Aquamarine'”, in Orange County Register:


merguard

He and his merguard surrounded her before she could say a word. "What kind of Conch Queen of Doom are you?" he griped, angrily jabbing at Sabrina with his trident.

1999, Bobbi J. G. Weiss, David Cody Weiss, Age of Aquariums, Archway Paperback, →ISBN, page 133:

Two muscular merguards twisted my arms behind my back and tangled my legs in seaweed.

2009, Delia Sherman, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Viking, →ISBN:

Mer-guards flanked the front opening to the palace.

2011, L-J Baker, Promises, Promises, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 148:


mermother

Suddenly a lovely sound filled the air. Ariel turned toward it. Nefazia was sitting on the rock, singing. Her song was low and sweet, like a mermother crooning to her baby.

1993, Suzanne Weyn, Nefazia Visits the Palace, The Trumpet Club, →ISBN, page 43:

A mermother pushed an infant merbaby along the street in an old stroller. Soon Sabrina and the merman reached an enormous palace, nearly five stories high.

2007, Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson, The Problem Child:


merking

The merking's castle stood in the very deepest spot. The palace walls were made of coral. The roof was oyster shells. And the windows stood open to let the fish swim in and out.

2002, Sarah Hines Stephen, Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid: And Other Stories:

A mermaid king; the king of the merfolk.


netherverse

His death "created a netherverse, one which has temporarily absorbed your two universes."

2006, Mark Voger, Kathy Voglesong, The Dark Age:

The council believes whoever it is has been active for quite sometime mucking up the netherverse.

2007, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow:

When death seems to be grinning back at us from the netherverse, most meet his stare with fear, in their eyes.

(fantasy) A lower universe, realm, or region; underworld.


うわん

うわん (canonical)
ウワン (canonical)
uwan (romanization)

Onomatopoeia for the sound of the wail or shout purportedly made by the spirit.


terrian

oc-noun

terrian m (plural terrians, feminine terriana, feminine plural terrianas)

terrians (plural)
terriana (feminine)
terrianas (feminine plural)

(chiefly science fiction) Earthling, Terran (resident or native of the planet Earth)


jump blues

(music) A type of boogie-woogie blues music influenced by big band swing, typically performed by a seven-piece combo and characterized by use of horns, shuffle rhythm, group singing during the choruses and raunchy lyrics.


pocketphone

(dated or science fiction) A telephone that fits in one's pocket; a mobile phone.


naïade

From Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás) (oblique stem Νᾱϊαδ-).


opérette

→ Arabic: أوبريت (ʔōberēt)

→ Persian: اپرت (operet)

→ Turkish: operet


retrofuturism

Even the aesthetics of its interface, with a kind of Star Trek-like retrofuturism, makes users feel as if their computer is doing the things we imagined computers would be doing, rather than the humdrum business of typing, filing and storing.

2006, David Bell, Science, Technology and Culture, Open University Press, →ISBN, pages 89–90:

The revival of historical conceptions of the future in media and design.


Charlot

From Charlie + -ot, after Charlie Chaplin.

[…] il était travesti en Charlot et tenait à la main une petite moustache noire qu’il enduisait de colle.

[…] he was dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and holding a small black moustache, which he was coating with glue.

(theater, film) the Tramp (character portrayed by Charlie Chaplin)


chakacha

A traditional Swahili style of music and dance.


péplum

→ English: peplum

→ Spanish: péplum

Borrowed from Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλων (péplōn), neuter of πέπλος (péplos).


péplum

Borrowed from French péplum, from Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλων (péplōn), neuter of πέπλος (péplos). Doublet of peplum.


little black dress

en-noun

little black dress (plural little black dresses)

When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.

2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction:

A simply cut and often quite short evening or cocktail dress.


atmo

(science fiction) atmosphere (of a planet)


terrícola

ca-noun

terrícola m or f by sense (plural terrícoles)


terrícola

es-noun

terrícola m or f by sense (plural terrícolas)


機械人

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ haːi̯²² jɐn²¹/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/

/kei̯⁵⁵ haːi̯²² jɐn²¹/


Potterhead

Potter + -head, possibly by analogy with pothead.

Yesterday's news that Universal Studios was planning to open "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in 2009 will have prodded the shriek-buttons of millions of young Potterheads, whose relentless campaign for a "really fun holiday this time, Daaad" will have ratcheted forward a few more irreversible notches.

2007 June 1, Pat Kane, “Are They Potty?”, in The Guardian:

Her infectious enthusiasm has brought many knitters (like Alison Hansel!) into the Potterhead fold and has introduced Potterheads into the world of knitting.

2007, Alison Hansel, Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter, page 164:

"Happiness x10000," wrote one fan on learning of Rowling's new project. "IT'S LIKE POTTERHEAD CHRISTMAS!" said another.

2012 April 16, Alison Flood, “Harry Potter encyclopedia in progress, says JK Rowling”, in The Guardian:

(informal, fandom slang) One who loves the Harry Potter series of books, the Potterverse, and/or the Wizarding World Rowling-created franchise, especially to a fanatical degree.


jibaro

en-noun

jibaro (countable and uncountable, plural jibaros)

The cultivation of the crops is entirely in the hands of the jibaro, or peasant, who is seldom of direct Spanish descent, while the financiering and exportation is conducted almost entirely by peninsulares, or Spanish-born colonists, who monopolize every branch of commerce to the exclusion of the colonian-born subject.

1898, Murat Halstead, The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,:


-verse

Women's lib in the BSGverse.

2008, Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson, Finding Battlestar Galactica, page 150:

This is Uhura's – and Uhura's fans' – big moment, the moment in which she blazingly comes alive as a member of the Trekverse.

2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, page 216:

Forming compounds nouns denoting the fictional world of a given character, television series etc.


aitu

From Proto-Polynesian *qaitu. Cognates include Maori aitu and Samoan aitu.


god game

Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.

2010, Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design, page 580:

(video games) A style of game in which the player observes and controls a large-scale environment, such as a city.


kaiju

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-kaiju.wav

From Japanese 怪獣 (かいじゅう, kaijū), from Middle Chinese 怪 (kˠuɛiᴴ, “strange, fantastic”) + 獸 (ɕɨuᴴ, “beast”) (compare Mandarin 怪獸／怪兽 (guàishòu)).

bor

かいじゅう, kaijū

compound

The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.

2015, Steve Aylett, Heart of the Original, Unbound, page 117:

A giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films, like Godzilla or Gamera.


dragonette

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dragonette.wav

(small dragon):

(female dragon):

And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is. This is one seriously juicy-looking dragonette.

2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202:


sea monk

[…] three sea monks being found in 1530, 1546 and 1549. In fact the first sea monk was not a sea monk at all, having been found in the Rhine. The second one was found near Copenhagen with a black head and the clothes of a monk and the final one was found near Hafnia (Copenhagen), tonsured like a monk. […] Nonetheless walruses remain a possible explanation for the occurence of sea monks prior to 1546.

2005, Steenstrupia, volume 29, pages 40-45:

Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...

2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition:

(folklore) A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


hardbag

Blend of hard + handbag, i.e. a harder form of the earlier genre handbag or handbag house.

They present a wide range of dance styles, including electro, trance, acid house, handbag, hardbag, hardcore, happy hardcore, drum-and-bass, hi-NRG and even industrial.

2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia:

A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.


exterminador

pt-noun

exterminador m (plural exterminadores, feminine exterminadora, feminine plural exterminadoras)

exterminadores (plural)
exterminadora (feminine)
exterminadoras (feminine plural)

From Latin exterminātōrem. By surface analysis, exterminar + -dor.

(science fiction) terminator (artificial intelligence machine created to destroy humans)


commlink

A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.

2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:

Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.

(science fiction) A communications device.


slashzine

There's also a healthy B7 [Blake's 7] slashzine community.

1994, William James Moyer, “Sinclair vs. Avon (?!)”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet):

Slashzines based on Dark Shadows characters are rare; most Dark Shadows fans have never even heard of them.

1998, Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander, Theorizing fandom: fans, subculture, and identity:

That's why all the SW [Star Wars] slashzines are pubbed underground -- there is no sex, let alone kinky sex, in the SW universe, and by damn LucasArts is gonna see that it stays that way!

2000, Rez, “New Napster Software but for DOOM LEVELS”, in rec.games.computer.doom.misc (Usenet):


foxcore

From fox + -core. See fox (“attractive woman”).

Music by female-fronted bands of the 1990s.


vidphone

1989, Ron Goulart (ghostwriting for William Shatner), TekWar
The vidphone screen remained blank. “You're looking good, Jake, looking very good all things considered.” “Wish I could say the same for you, Wiz. Why the blackout?” “Reasons, I got my reasons,” came the whispering voice […]


eyephone

One system in the works in this country would have us wearing "eyephones," a helmet-like apparatus with a small TV screen […] With the eyephones, each eye will receive only one field, but filters will adjust the picture.

1979, Science digest: Volume 86, Issue 2:

Further along on the "naturalness of use" continuum are today's working VR projects where users are tethered by devices such as eyephones and datagloves.

1993, Diane M. Gayeski, Multimedia for Learning: Development, Application, Evaluation, page 82:

State-of-the-art eyephones (head mounted visual displays) are not considered to be suitable for providing a realistic or natural visual environment.

1997, Dafydd Gibbon, Roger Moore, Richard Winski, Spoken Language Characterisation, page 185:

The key element in this group of technologies is 'automatic head position tracking', which allows the wearer of an eyephone to scan a computer-generated landscape in a quasi-natural way.

1998, Richard Gough, Ric Allsopp, Claire MacDonald, On Tourism, page 12:

He locked the door, put the CLOSED sign up, and went into the back room where he found the boy still seated, cross-legged, as he'd left him, his face hidden by the massive old eyephones cabled to the open notebook in his lap.

1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties:

“That apparatus you see on his head is an eyephone. Inside it are tiny video screens that are transmitting to its wearer images of an opponent on the other end […]

2008, Thomas Quealy, Is That You?, page 87:

(sometimes science fiction) A device that allows the wearer to watch video material as if immersed in the world being shown.


(jazz) Used at the beginning of the staff.


jøtun

jøtunen (definite singular)
jøtnar (indefinite plural)
jøtnane (definite plural)

Semi-learned borrowing from Old Norse jǫtunn, from Proto-Germanic *etunaz. Doublet of jøtul, jutul.

slbor

(Norse mythology) alternative form of jøtul (“jotun”)


Twitard

From twilight + -tard, after the pattern of Twihard.

If I go missing, please reference this, as Twitards have more than likely kidnapped me, all because I seem to be the one person on the planet not to understand the vampire hype.

2010, Felicia Mancini, “2009: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”, in View Magazine, 7 January - 13 January 2010 issue:

(slang, derogatory) An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


drakons

drakons (nominative singular)
drakoni (nominative plural)
drakonu (accusative singular)
drakonus (accusative plural)
drakona (genitive singular)
drakonu (genitive plural)
drakonam (dative singular)
drakoniem (dative plural)
drakonu (instrumental singular)
drakoniem (instrumental plural)
drakonā (locative singular)
drakonos (locative plural)
drakon (singular vocative)
drakoni (plural vocative)

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”).

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drakons ir klasisks tetovējums, vienlīdz populārs gan vīriešiem, gan sievietēm

the dragon is a classic tattoo, equally popular with men and with women

(mythology) dragon, winged serpent (reptilian monster that spits fire and devours people and animals)


wanderstar

From wander + star, probably a calque of German Wandelstern (“planet”). Compare the historic term wandering star, like the German term ultimately a calque from Ancient Greek.

He had thumbed about in Chants of a Wander-Star last night in bed and wondered about the career of that marginal versifier — born out of his proper time and now remembered by Ackley in an era even less proper.

1994, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror:

A thin scythe of moon was rising, near the white wanderstar of dawn or dusk.

He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still. Now and then a wander-star crossed the heavens: one of the metal eyes the ancients hung over Alifros to spy on their enemies.

2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy:

(science fiction, fantasy) A wandering star or other similar heavenly body; a comet; meteor; planet.


ܩܝܡܬܐ

head

ܩܝܡܬܐ • (qəyāmtā) f

From the root ܩ-ܘ-ܡ (q-w-m) related to rising; compare Arabic قِيَامَة (qiyāma), Hebrew קִימָה (qîmâ).

(Christianity) Church of the Resurrection


ガールズラブ

→ English: girls' love, GL

→ Chinese: GL

[ɡa̠ːɾɯ̟zɨɾa̠bɯ̟]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from girls + love


veļu māte

veļu māte (nominative singular)
veļu mātes (nominative plural)
veļu māti (accusative singular)
veļu mātes (accusative plural)
veļu mātes (genitive singular)
veļu māšu (genitive plural)
veļu mātei (dative singular)
veļu mātēm (dative plural)
veļu māti (instrumental singular)
veļu mātēm (instrumental plural)
veļu mātē (locative singular)
veļu mātēs (locative plural)
veļu māte (singular vocative)
veļu mātes (plural vocative)

es redzēju veļu māti pa vārtiem ienākot

I saw the mother of the dead coming by the gate

(mythology) Latvian mythological being, usually with the form of an old woman, who guards the souls of the dead


worldmaking

The creation of a world, as for example in writing fiction.


techstep

Another area where I suspect there's some crossover, but I haven't poked around in much, is within death/black metal. Certainly some of what I've heard has the dark techy feel of techstep / darkstep like Technical Itch and whatnot, but it's not something I've had the time to look into properly.

2004 October 5, Phil Evans, “breaks / Drum and base / thrash metal”, in alt.music.drum-n-bass (Usenet):

Although the more experimental edge encapsulated this darkness, the DJ-led sound called for simplicity. Standing out was the arrival of techstep; a sound that was heralded by DJ Trace's Mutant Revisited, a radical reworking of T-Power's Mutant Jazz.

(music) A subgenre of drum and bass music heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.


mersnake

From mer- + snake. Compare Middle English mereneddre (“sea-snake, lamprey”), from Old English merenǣddra, merenǣddre, merenǣdre (“lamprey, sea snake”, literally “sea-adder”).


icedrake

Rearing back its awesome spined and crested head, the icedrake roared — in challenge, maybe, or in scorn of the little scraps of humankind who cowered beneath the shadow of its wings […]

1987, Peter Morwood, The Dragon Lord, Daw Books, →ISBN, page 38:

(fantasy) A dragon which breathes ice or has a freezing body temperature.


ghost rocket

A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:

2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273:

Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.

2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11:

The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.

2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243:

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.

2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4:

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.

2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105:

Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229:

(ufology) One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.


merdog

Lee drank a potion that helped him to breathe underwater. Beardy then told me I could turn into a merman and Holly could turn into a merdog (like in an old book I've written). So I soon turned into a merman and Holly turned into a merdog.

2010, Steven J. Butler, Jr., The Lost Worlds of Buckstevenson:

Rather than the flayed skin associated with the traditional saint, this Saint Bartholomew holds a sword or trident. Something rests beside his feet—it may be a demon, dolphin, or merdog. This creature is Bartholomew's messenger and servant.

2011, Judika Illes, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages:


dríade

Borrowed from Latin Dryadem, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad, tree nymph”), from δρῦς (drûs, “tree”).


draculin

From Dracula + -in, named after Count Dracula.

(organic chemistry, zoology) A glycoprotein with anticoagulant properties, found in the saliva of vampire bats.


dríada

Learned borrowing from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”).