# Eldraeic Word of the Day: Serev **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 2, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-serev/1398 "2024-11-02T16:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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**serev (n.):** Blood, or other primary life-fluid (e.g., _myneni_ crystalplasm, _codramaju_ suspension, _mezuar_ sap, etc. – even, to stretch a metaphorical point, digisapience electricity.) A word notable for its use in many metaphor-based compounds and etymological cousins, notably  **seredar** _(“blood-person”_, or paramedic);  **seredhain** (_“blood-war”_, or war of extermination/genocide); **seredáné** _(“blood-precursor”,_ or genetic parent);  **sereglés**  _(“blood-key”_, or biometric security system); **sereqártill** (_“blood-price”_, or weregeld); **seredelefí** (_“blood-oath”_, a contract secured on one or both parties’ lives); and  **saráv** (justice).   * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2018/04/10/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-serev](https://eldraeverse.com/2018/04/10/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-serev) ---
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**Comments migrated from WordPress:** > [@Eric Manwill \ on 2018-04-11 10:03:11 wrote](#): > > The fact that the serev/sered component comes first in every one of the compound words above intrigues me. What linguistic rules are in play here? > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2018-04-11 14:08:11 wrote](#): > > > > In this case, most of the compounds are made out of what were, originally, _tra-_ descriptions; so, to take _el seredhain_ as an example, it’s based on the original phrase _el traserev hain_, and retains the ordering of its components. > > > > (A _tra-_ description is the simplest and least precise, even semi-metaphorical, way of “adjectivization” in Eldraeic. Basically, you prefix one _anesprel_ (predicate) with another, attaching _tra-_ to the prefixor, which then modifies it. So > > > > _el traserev hain_ > > > > is to be read as > > > > _a blood TYPE-OF war_ > > > > and > > > > _el traserev táné_ > > > > is to be read as > > > > _a blood TYPE-OF parent_ > > > > without being too particular about the nature of the TYPE-OF relationship, you see?) > > > > ((For extra fun, you can stack up modifiers so that you can use modified predicates as modifiers for other predicates, by repeating the tra- prefix to indicate level of nesting, thus: > > > > _el tratrakercal trakecbal itavir_ > > > > The (prey TYPE-OF animal) TYPE-OF yell. > > > > So you can say the old linguist’s cliché, “pretty little girl’s school” in Eldraeic and express all the different possible meanings unambiguously.)) > > > > > [@Specialist290 \ on 2018-04-11 16:27:20 wrote](#): > > > > > > > ((For extra fun, you can stack up modifiers so that you can use modified predicates as modifiers for other predicates, by repeating the tra- prefix to indicate level of nesting, thus: > > > > > > > > el tratrakercal trakecbal itavir > > > > > > > > The (prey TYPE-OF animal) TYPE-OF yell. > > > > > > > > So you can say the old linguist’s cliché, “pretty little girl’s school” in Eldraeic and express all the different possible meanings unambiguously.)) > > > > > > Is there a way to make such a construction _intentionally_ ambiguous, as (say) a quasi-poetic double entendre where both (or each, if more than two) meanings may overlap and be meant at the same time? (e.g. the TVTropes page “Last Second Chance,” which can be interpreted as “another chance offered at the last second” and “the last offer of a second chance” equally validly.) > > > > > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2018-04-12 12:32:02 wrote](#): > > > > > > > > Yes. I don’t know exactly how the quantum-superpositional cases work yet, but they are there. > [@R.C. \ on 2018-04-12 05:31:26 wrote](#): > > So, presumably hainadar literally means ‘war-person’, and can be glossed as ‘warrior’ or ‘soldier’ or ‘serviceperson’? > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2018-04-12 10:15:18 wrote](#): > > > > Precisely so. ---
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