Re: lexicon
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 30, 2003, 2:35 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Incidentally, the term "Kassi Empire" is not an accurate translation of
> their term. The term they used is "Uabiimisnani", which is literally
> "Land of the [ti-]Misnani", where "timisnani" is a term used for the
> Kassi Empress (and only for her, not for foreign empresses), translating
> literally as "All-Mother"
Incidentally, I've toyed with "Panmatriarchy" and "Panmatriarch" as
alternate translations of "Kassi Empire" and "Empress" because of the
literal translations.
These terms were also used for the fragments that were left after the
First Empire collapsed in the civil wars collectively known as TiNikan's
War(s). Perhaps with multiple states calling themselves "Biimasnanii",
the term would generalize out to "Empire" or something similar, but I'm
not clear about post-First Empire usage.
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