Words, words, mere words
Super glad the Eorzibethean basics infographic is useful! :3 I've seen in a couple of places folks looking for a wordlist as well. This stuff is super relaxing for me, so conscripting @davetheshady once more into helping put a quick Eorzibethean wordlist together.
The words that follow were selected by the extremely scientific method of skimming Urianger's lines in Dialogue Collection FFXIV and @uriangertxt and being like hey that's a fun word, gimme one of those, yeah I'll take one of them, and that one too…and then sprinkling in a couple more just for the heck of it. If you think of any others please pop them in the comments and I'll add them!
The short definitions are from our heads and my favorite toy a great resource, the Online Etymology Dictionary, which is linked on each for further reference and linguadorking.
Abiding - depending on the context it can mean lasting (“abiding love”) or staying/living/remaining somewhere (“abiding in the town”)
Akin - related/similar to
Amenable - to be okay with something
Anon - soon, in a little bit, right away
Arbiter - someone who sits in judgment making decisions
Arms - weapons
Aught - something, anything
Aye - yes
Begotten - born from, caused by
Behest - command, urging (“I did it at their behest”)
Benevolent - kind, wanting to do good
Borne - carried, or endured (the present tense is “bear”)
Brazen - to do something in an obvious way (usually arrogantly)
By my reckoning - I think, by my calculations
Cease - stop
Counsel - advice
Curst - ill-tempered
Divest - to take away stuff, to take off stuff
Duplicity - deception, dishonesty
Ere - before
E’er - ever
Errant - wandering, traveling
Fain - gladly ("I would fain have thee accompany me")
Fair - attractive
Falsehood - a lie, telling lies
Forestall - prevent, get in the way of
Forsooth - indeed, truly (see also “sooth”)
Forth - forward
Froward - petulant, contrary
Hark - pay attention to, listen to, listen up!
Hence - from here
Hie - go quickly
Hither - to here
Howsoever - in whatever way
I pray thee - please (literally “I beg you”)
Impertinent - sassy, rude
Import - importance
Impropriety - being improper, being rude, usually with euphemistic connotations of drunkenness or sex
Inclination - something a person likes
Indolence - inaction
Insidious - deceitful in a sneaky way that might be a trap
Insinuate - to imply, to indirectly suggest (usually something negative about a person)
Ken - to know or understand
Knave - a tremendous jerk, an asshole
Libations - drinks (usually alcoholic)
Linger - to hang around in a place, especially after you know you should go
Morn - morning
Morrow - morning, tomorrow
Must needs - necessarily, important to
Myriad - many, a lot of
Nascent - coming into being, just beginning
Naught - nothing
Nay - no
Ne’er - never
O’er - over
Oft - often, repeatedly, frequently
Parlance - how someone talks
Peevish - petty, ill-tempered
Petitioner - someone who is asking for help
Portents - omens, usually bad or ominous
Predilection - inclination toward something, predisposed to like something
Pressing - urgent
Pretense - disguise, faking something
Proffer - to give something
Provender - food
Puissant - strong, powerful, influential
Quicken - become alive (the moment life was considered to have begun in a pregnancy was "quickening," when the parent could feel movement)
Roused - awakened or energized
Scion - heir to, child of, descendant of
Scourge - a harmful force (the literal meaning is a particularly nasty kind of whip)
Sooth - truth
Straightways - right away, immediately
Suffer it - allow it
Supplicant - someone who is humbly asking for help
Surpassing - very much, exceeding
Thence - from there
Thither - to there
Thus - in this way, as follows
Unhand - let go of
Unto - to, up to, as far as, until
Varlet - rascal
Verily - truly
Visage - a person’s face
'Ware - beware, be warned about, be careful of
Wend - to travel to a place
Wherefore - why
Whither - to where
Wont to - in the habit of, likely to
Yea - yes, indeed
Yester - yesterday
Yield - to give something, to give up something
Yonder - over there (usually a moderately far distance)
And there you have it, with many thanks to Jen! Hope it helps! If there are any other writeups that would be useful let me know; it's genuinely nice to have fun things to make on insomnia nights.
