#venedic

The Unicorn, Salvador Dali.

The clearest definition of Dali's view of eroticism: The sexuality of the brain.

The order of the words is arbitrary, but:

Poing (Fr*nch)

It means "fist" but is pronounced /pwɛ̃/ (approximation in english: pwen (en like in end): approximation in polish: płę)

Learnt it yesterday courtesy of Roll20's french CoC2e character sheet

Wlonk/Wlank (Middle English)

It's pronounced exactly as it's spelt, so there's this awkward w-l cluster (ł-l in Polish it would be). Its meanings include "noble, highborn fair, beautiful, gorgeous fine, excellent, splendid proud, boastful"

It also has alternate spellings (as old and middle English loves to do) and those include wlanck, wlank, wlonc, wlong, and its plural (as well as weak singlular) is "wlonke" (also pronounced as spelt, think like the german -e plural.)

Obmierzły (Polish)

One of those words where rz is pronounced separately rather than like ż. Learnt it courtesy of Curse of Strahd where the word is used to describe, among other things, a certain sword. Certainly not the weirdest Polish word but my mind is blanking trying to remember any funny sounding words rn. It means "revolting, repulsive, disgusting, such that evokes aversion and disgust."

Fun fact about this word: it's actually related to "marznąć".

Dzieszcządszerzym (Wenedyk/Venedic)

Now, Venedic is a constructed language, created for the purposes of the "Ill (capital i, double lowercase L) Bethisad", where Polish became a romance language (like Italian, Spanish, or Romanian) instead of staying Slavic; because of that its two source languages are Latin and Polish - the grammar is chiefly Latin, the vocab is mixed, and the sound changes are chiefly like those that have occured in Polish.

This makes for a very interesting situation where as a polish speaker most of the language sounds funny or weird, so I just chose the longest word in the sample texts I could find, because the whole language sounds equally as weird to me (in a good way).

If you read a text as a Polish speaker you feel like you should be able to understand, but unless it's a word that hasn't changed much or at all from Polish, it's gonna be hard.

Anyway the word means "we will come down, we will descend" - from dzieszczędzier which comes from latin descendere (to descend) - and it's pronounced exactly as it would be in Polish. Have fun pronouncing it :)

Canntaireachd (Scottish Gaelic)

I tried to find weird words from other parts of the world than Europe and alternate history Europe, but as said I blanked out on those, so yah.

This word is the origin of the Scots and then D&D term "cantrip", but originally means "a piper's mnemonic chant" (basically a meaningless chant that helps a piper memorise a tune) or simply just "chanting".

"so how's it pronounced?" you ask The IPA for the word looks like this [ˈkʰãũn̪ˠt̪ɛɾʲəxk]