Qh'énnish honorifics I: Nobility
The primary honorifics used to denote what would be translated as lord and lady are all derived from the intensifier particle, Th /θ/. They are:
- Uth /uθ/ → lord (masculine exclusive).
- Eth /ɛθ/ → great, powerful, or august (gender inclusive).
- Yth* /ʲɪθ/ → lit. dragon but also renowned, regal, noble and perhaps even feared (gender inclusive).
- Dhana → lady, noble woman/girl (feminine exclusive).
- Dragon lord of the Yth barony → Yth Ythuth /ʲɪθjɪθuθ/
- Great Lady Aussr → Dhana yth Aussr /dʰɑnɑjɪθ ɑʊsɚ/
- High king → karreth /kɑʁɛθ/
- High priest/hierophant → snhayth /snʰɑjɪθ/
- Lord Pelrhein → Uth Pelrhein /uθpɛlʁɑɪn/ or Pelrheinuth /pɛlɑɪnuθ/
- Lady wife of Lord Annhr → Dhanauth Annhr /dʰɑnɑʊθ ɑnːhɚ/
*Yth can cause some ambiguity for its multiple uses dragon, as an honorific, regnant, as well as being one of the Qh'énnish baronial houses and its eponymous barony cf. Yth.
If there were a dragon lording over the barony of Yth, it could be described as "yth Yth-yth t'Yth → regnant dragon-noble of the Yth barony." Fortunately, dragon rulers are not a thing.
Type
Nobility, Honorific / Ceremonial
Equates to
The common Qh'énnish honorifics are, although technically nongendered, roughly used to mean lord, lady, or generically, noble (person). However, in practice, they are used primarily for men, but uth is exclusively for men, and dhana is exclusively for women.
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