[projectaon] Re: Drakkar/Drakkarim

  • From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:02:01 +0000

Jonathan Blake wrote:

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I've seen "Nadziran" used in the singular, but I don't think I've ever
seen "Ligan" in the singular in any of the books.  Are there any instances
of it?

Since the suffix -im is considered to denote the plural, it's not a big leap
to see Ligan as the singular and Liganim as the plural, particularly as they
are Darkland creatures who presumably speak Giak. The construction of the
word is just too coincidental for it to be otherwise, surely. ;-)


I always assumed that it was derivative of "liga" which translates as "small".
As this is coming from a guy who had a Giak/English Lexicon on his website, I'll happily defer to your more extensive knowledge of the Dark Tongue. ;-)
So Liganim are "small ones" in the eyes of the Darklords and Lesser Darklords. Yeah, that does make sense. 

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