{"id":21764,"date":"2023-01-06T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=21764"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:15:18","slug":"the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-9-a-note-from-the-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/01\/06\/the-kingdom-of-tokavsk-session-9-a-note-from-the-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of Tokavsk, Session 9:  A Note from the Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal sobriquets are a particular difficulty to translate from Zheren, the language of Tokavsk.\u00a0 This is because affixes are used in place of adjectives.\u00a0 Some Zheren affixes have the same function as do adjectives in that they describe a noun; however, they become part of the noun itself when used.\u00a0 For instance, the nickname of the current King of Tokavsk is commonly translated as \u201ciron-blooded.\u201d\u00a0 This is an approximation.\u00a0 In Zheren, it is written as <em>Astergyevektarany<\/em>\u2014literally, \u201cKing\/Leader named Stergye whose blood has the quality of iron.\u201d \u00a0Here, the affix \u201ca\u201d denotes a leadership position, in this case the King.\u00a0 \u201cVek\u201d means blood; it acts as an affix, though the addition of \u201ctarany\u201d complicates its function.\u00a0 Because \u201ctaran,\u201d iron, has its own affix of \u201cy,\u201d the word functions as an adjective.\u00a0 (\u201cY\u201d at the end of nouns means \u201chaving the quality of,\u201d which converts them into adjectives.)\u00a0 Furthermore, the placement of \u201cvek\u201d immediately before indicates that the blood is being described.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for including such a lengthy explanation is to illustrate the intricacy of Tokavskan titles and sobriquets.\u00a0 It is worth noting that such lengthy results are uncommon.\u00a0 Affixes can multiply rapidly, hence the inclusion of adjectives in Zheren grammar.\u00a0 Typically, only one or two affixes are needed to get the point across.\u00a0 Royal sobriquets are an exception.\u00a0 It seems to be that because kings are held in such high regard, their sobriquets tend to be long.<\/p>\n<p>However, even Tokavskan sobriquets have exceptions\u2014exceptions to exceptions, if you will.\u00a0 In the letter previous, \u201cShort May He Reign\u201d was written out in full.\u00a0 The author made a pun on a phrase imported from regions to the south.\u00a0 As it was recently brought into the Zheren lexicon, it is not subjected to the affix system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal sobriquets are a particular difficulty to translate from Zheren, the language of Tokavsk.\u00a0 This is because affixes are used in place of adjectives.\u00a0 Some Zheren affixes have the same function as do adjectives in that they describe a noun; however, they become part of the noun itself when used.\u00a0 For instance, the nickname of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":21361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1852,1954,1221,1257,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21884,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/21884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}