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Re: A personal curiosity

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Sunday, June 25, 2006, 6:00
Joseph B. wrote:
> >A personal curiosity: > >How do you say Jehovah's Witnesses in your conlangs? >
Amusingly difficult in Kash, who find Terran religious concepts rather incomprehensible in any case. Most literal: kandritan Yehova [kan'dritan je'xova]-- but kandritan best refers to witnesses in the legal sense...(derived from a base meaning 'to be present') kandikas Yehova-- even worse: kandikas can mean 'witness (e.g. an event)', but more often 'spectator' (lit. 'one who sees) kandusok Yehova -- follower of..., (fig.) adherent of... a little better I guess. (< 'follow') (For plural, add -ila to the kan- forms) But none of these captures the religio-philosophical concept "to witness (to s.t.)" Perhaps we need such a word. The Gwr will probably have a word, since some of them practice salvationist/redemptionist religions, but we're not there yet.