A lexicon of Folk words and their translations into English. Also there is a list of Folk expressions and their explanations at the bottom.
I am still working on this. It is neither complete nor fully organised.

LEXICON

Abandont, abandoned.
Abscondet, absconded.
Acceptet, accepted.
Accomplisht, accomplished.
Accountet, accounted.
Accuest, accused.
Accumulaett, accumulated.
Achieve saught, achieve reconciliation, or make one’s peace.
Achievt, achieved.
Acorn ale, a pale larger-like beer brewed with crushed acorns for flavour.
Acquaint, acquaintance.
Acquaintt, acquainted.
Acquiert, acquired.
Addet, added.
Addresst, addressed.
Adjudgt, adjudged.
Administert, administered.
Admittet, admitted.
Admixt, admixed.
Adoptet, adopted.
Advancet, advanced.
Adviest, advised.
Adwindling, fading, becoming smaller or less.
Aegt, aged.
Afeart, afraid.
Affectet, affected.
Aflait, frightened.
Aflaiten, frighten.
Aggrieft, aggrieved.
Agreän(s), spouse(s), person or persons one has a marital agreement with. Noun.
Agreeän, married. Verb.
Agreen, agreed. Verb.
Airbread, crisp bread made from rye flour, salt and water.
Akkar, squid, calamari.
Al-Andalus, also known as Muslim Spain or Islamic Iberia.
Alarmt, alarmed.
Allowt, allowed.
Allure, the walk way inside the parapet of a fortification, also known as a chemin-de-rond or a wall-walk.
Almanac, strictly an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers’ planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon(s), eclipses et cetera.
Alwydd, a man’s name pronounced Al (hard a as in axe) + oo (oo as in loom) + uth, (th as in then), (Alu:ᴧð).
Amaezt, amazed.
Amorousth, amorousness.
Amountet, amounted.
Angert, angered.
Annealing, process of holding newly made glass objects at a high temperature and slowly cooling them to relieve stresses and make them less fragile. Also a process used in connection with metals.
Answert, answered.
Any hap, anyway or anyhow.
Any, anyone or anybody.
Any’s, anyone’s or anybody’s.
Appeart, appeared.
Applyt, applied.
Appointet, appointed.
Appreciatet, appreciated.
Apprehendet, apprehended.
Apprisen, apprised.
Appropriatth, appropriateness.
Approven, approved.
Armt, armed.
Aroust, aroused.
Arrangt, arranged.
Arrivt, arrived.
Arrow loop, a narrow gap in a castle’s defences whose primary function is for archers to fire at attackers. Also referred to as arrow slits or oillets.
Ashaemt, ashamed.
Ashet, a large oval serving dish or plate.
Askt, asked.
Assembelt, assembled.
Assortet, assorted.
Assuemt, assumed.
Assuert, assured.
Astonisht, astonished.
Attackt, attacked.
Attemptet, attempted.
Attendet, attended.
Attenuatet, attenuated.
Attestatrix, or attestor. One who attests or witnesses something. An official from the Master at arms office specifically present to attest a formal process has taken place or to serve notice of such. The default in Folk is feminine.
Attestet, attested, witnessed.
Attractet, attracted.
Authoriest, authorised.
Awaerth, awareness.
Awaning, fading, becoming smaller or less. Rarely used other than referring to daylight.
Awkwardth, awkwardness.
Babby, English dialectal form of baby.
Babe, a child still being breast fed
Backtrackt, backtracked.
Badth, badness.
Baekt, baked.
Baest, based.
Baitt, baited.
Ballast, material other than cargo placed in the hull below the water line to provide stability, oft rocks.
Bannocks, small flat individually baked loafs of bread.
Barenth, baredness, could be nakedness but not oft used thus.
Barrenth, barrenness,
Basht, bashed, also used for mashed, as in vegetables. Bashed neeps and tatties being mashed swede [rutabaga] and potatoes.
Batht, bathed.
Battert, battered.
Baulkt, baulked.
Beacht, beached.
Bebaben, one who is so immature as to be equivalent to a babe. A term of contempt.
Bedd, bedded. Made love.
Bedstone, the stationary lower stone of a pair of millstones. The upper is the runner.
Bee space, the specific space that honey bees leave to move around in a hive. Any wider gap they will reduce with wax and propolis, a resin they collect from trees, or even build more comb in it, any smaller one they will block.
Bee, Castle bees are much closer to Apis mellifera mellifera, particularly the native Irish honey bee, than to any other western honey bee, but there are morphological similarities with Apis cerana the Eastern honey bee. There are several species of honey bee on Castle which would on Earth be classified as Apis. One is much smaller than A. florea and one much larger than A. dorsata. There are also a number of stingless Meliponini type species.
Beetle, a wooden mallet or maul often made from a green log with one end turned down for a handle.
Belaten, belated.
Believt, believed.
Belike, likely.
Belittelt, belittled.
Belongt, belonged.
Ben, a castrated billy goat.
Bender, the term originated from gender bender, one who dresses, behaves or lives as a non-typical member of their birth sex. Most oft used as a pejorative term for a male homosexual.
Bent, also used in a mostly pejorative sense in English to indicate a homosexual, male or female. See Straight.
Bentfruit, bananas.
Bereftth, bereftness.
Berount, about or around.
Beseem(s) is used in two ways in Folk. The first, is to be appropriate or befitting, and the second to have seemed to be or to have appeared to be.
Beseemt, beseemed.
Besott, besotted.
Bethink I is an alternative to the more normally used I bethink myself or I bethink me. Both are equivalent to I think in English.
Bethink. The verb to think is highly irregular and is rendered as one bethinks oneself in all parts of its conjugation in Folk, so strictly you bethink yourself should be said, but oft the reflexive pronoun is not used and you bethink you is typical usage.
Bethinkt, thought. Thought is only a noun in Folk.
Bias sewn, sewn with the weaves at forty-five degrees to each other.
Bicarbonate of soda, oft sold as baking soda.
Big Islands. The Big Islands, technically this refers to the two large islands that make up Greater Britain, but when the expression is used by a native of the Ocean Isles usually only the larger one, also referred to as The Mainland, is implied. They refer to the other big island, Ireland, as the Lesser Isle.
Bigroot, sometimes referred to by the Folk as mangels. Mangels are called mangels, mangel worzels or fodder beet on Earth. Since they grow quickly, are hardy and crop reliably, oft reaching fifty weights, they are extensively grown to be eaten by the Folk as well as their livestock. The varieties grown by the Folk also provide strong tasting and nutritious greens particularly popular with venison. They are also popular used cooked them chopped to be mixt with cold mashed starchroots which are flattened to the size of a dinner plate and a wiedth [half an inch, 1 cm] thick before oven cooking with grated cheese on top till the cheese melts. The quartered pieces are known as Leaf Melts, and served with a wide variety of meals. Other dark greens are used similarly. Cultivars belong to Beta vulgaris subspecies vulgaris ‘Crassa’.
Bindt, bound.
Birch sauce, birch sap reduced down. Like maple syrup but made from birch trees
Birthing cream, prepared using lanolin wax extracted from sheep fleece.
Birthing, delivery. Various meanings see birtht.
Birtht, born. As in I was birtht in winter, or given birth to as in I birtht both my daughters at lunch time, but also delivered as in the midwife birtht my sister’s babe.
Bitterth, bitterness.
Black shaggy bear, Ursus castellos, a large species of bear unknown on Earth. Males can reach sixteen hundred weights, females twelve hundred.
Blackcock, a male game bird of the grouse family, Black grouse Lyrurus tetrix, with a very distinctive courtship ritual, called a lek, the females are known as grayhens.
Blackseed, a grass seed similar to wild rice.
Blaemt, blamed.
Bledd, past tense of bleed.
Blendet, blended.
Blood peace, a peace created after blood shed by the joining of blood lines, usually by marriage or mutual adoption. With the previously warring factions now one family, i.e. one blood, killing was no longer honourable for it would be murder within the family.
Blötroot, bloodroot, beetroot. The spelling is an old one from one of the earliest records in the Folk archives. Cultivars belonging to Beta vulgaris subspecies vulgaris 'Conditiva'.
Blue cheese mould, Penicillium roqueforti.
Bluen, blued or blue in for example cheese.
Blufft, bluffed.
Bluntth, bluntness.
Bodach, old man.
Bodyt, bodied.
Boilt, boiled.
Boltet, bolted.
Boom, a spar at the foot of a sail.
Booten, booted, wearing boots or equipped with boots.
Bort, bored.
Bosomt, bosomed.
Bothert, bothered.
Bottelt, bottled.
Bottomt, bottomed.
Boulting, the process of sifting flour through cloth, boulting cloth, to separate particles of different sizes.
Bout, slang for about in English.
Boxt, boxed.
Braek(s), break(s). Like the verb to speak the verb to break is never conjugated with a o in any of its forms.
Braeken meats, literally broken meats, the unused meat from cooked joints which have been partially used, broken into.
Braeken, broken.
Braekfast, pronounced as two words, braek fast, (breik fast), rather than breckfast.
Braekt, broke.
Bragt, bragged.
Breadseed, a hardy grain cultivated for flour unique to Castle.
Breastet, breasted.
Breedd, bred. Breedd is the past tense of breed.
Brient, brined.
Brightbean, broad bean or fava bean, Vicia faba. Widely grown on Castle due to its resistance to extreme cold. So called because of the bright green inner seed.
Bringen, brought.
Brittelth, brittleness.
Bro, vernacular used by black and white alike for a black man in English. A contraction of brother.
Broaches, twisted pieces of split hazel used to hold thatch down.
Brothers in Arms, a song on the album of the same name by Dire Straits, released on 13 May 1985.
Bruist, bruised.
Bulb flowers, tree onions, Egyptian walking onions, Allium x proliferum.
Bullnut, water chestnut, Trapa bicornis.
Bumpers, fenders in American English.
Busk, a strip of whalebone or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it, also a corset. To busk oneʼs bosom, to reshape it or push it upwards as a corset would.
Buskt, past tense of verb to busk.
Butched, north English dialectal form of butchered, also used in Folk.
Buttert, buttered.
Butts, a place where archers practice.
Buyt, bought.
Bwlch, pronounced Bull + ch the ch pronounced as the ch of loch in Scottish, (bᴧlχ). A geographical feature a pass through mountains or hills. Used as a name.
Caert to, cared for.
Calculatet, calculated.
Callaloo, a dish based on callaloo, a leafy vegetable, often amaranth, though many other plant species are used and also go by the name callaloo in various parts of the Caribbean. It originated in West Africa.
Callt, called or named.
Calmt, calmed.
Calmth, calmness.
Calt, cold an adjective, never used as a noun. Caltth is the noun, equivalent to coldness.
Calter, colder.
Caltly, coldly.
Caltth, the noun used for cold or coldness. Calt is the adjective which is used for cold.
Camo, camouflage.
Campt, camped.
Caoilté, a man’s name pronounced keel + chay, (ki:ltʃei).
Caoine, keen or howling characteristic of wolfs.
Care to, care about or care for. Have a care to.
Carryt, carried.
Carvt, carved.
Caseless, skinless, refers to sausages.
Castratet, castrated.
Catcht, caught.
Caul, the lacy, fatty membrane encasing the internal organs of an animal.
Caust, caused.
Cautiont, cautioned.
Ceël, pronounced sea + ell, (si:ɛl), a small sweet pear-like fruit unique to Castle, often dried and powdered unripe as a vanilla like flavouring. Pyrus fragrans.
Celebratet, celebrated.
Centres, a pair of horses behind the leaders but in front of the wheelers in a team tacked up in side-by-side pairs. Referred to as Swings in some variants of English, notably American English.
Cept, English slang for except.
Challengt, challenged.
Chamberers, housekeepers.
Chambert, chambered, roomed or provided with a room.
Changt, changed. verb and noun.
Channelt, channelled.
Chargt, charged.
Charity shops, also known as thrift stores.
Charmt, charmed.
Chastent, chastened.
Chav, a British pejorative term, whose derivation is contested, for, usually young, persons of lower class, of little education and taste, often of loutish, violent behaviour with ostentatious dress sense. One belief is that it is an acronym for Council Housed And Violent, i.e. those who live in state subsidised housing and are violent.
Checkt, checked.
Cheeks, the middle portions of a green sand mould. They are not always necessary, and so may be absent.
Cheert, cheered.
Cheese plants, cardoons.
Cheesemaker, Lady’s bedstraw.
Chent, pronounced shent, (ʃɛnt ).
Chewt, chewed.
Chides, cheek muscles.
Childishth, childishness.
Chillt, chilled.
Chillth, chilliness or chill.
Choake, Jerusalem artichoke. Helianthus tuberosus.
Chopt, chopped.
Chronometer, a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
Claimt, claimed.
Clansaver, a ubiquitous, nutritious and tender variety of ocean leaf with little taste of its own which readily absorbs other flavours, oft used as a meat extender.
Clarifyt, clarified.
Cleant, cleaned.
Cleart, cleared.
Clempt, acutely hungry.
Clemptth, hunger.
Cleverth, cleverness.
Climbt, climbed.
Cloest, closed.
Cloesth, closeness.
Closebirtht, born close together. A term usually indicating babes born within a year (fourteen lunes) of each other, usually to the same mother, but not exclusively so. Oft used for children in a group being reared as siblings as happens on holdings but also at the Keep.
Clout, a small piece of cloth oft used for cleaning for example a dishclout.
Co-prime, the numbers of teeth on two gear wheels are said to be co-prime if they have no factors in common (e.g. 12 and 41 or 14 and 45). This ensures every tooth meshes with every gap before repeating the cycle which averages all wear evenly on all the teeth and all the gaps.
Coaltit’s Quality, equivalent to a vintage Champagne often drunk with fish on Castle.
Cobb, spider.
Cockerel knarle, cockerel breast stuffed with herbs, nuts, fruit and spices in variable proportions according to their seasonal availability. So called due to the presence of knarlenuts.
Codityt, codified.
Coept, coped.
Collapst, collapsed.
Collectet, collected.
Collective group, one of a number of standing sub committees of the Council. The Collective group oversees financial matters.
Collective, Folk equivalent of the treasury or exchequer, the fund for public enterprises. The Collective also functions as a banking service.
Colourt, coloured.
Combient, combined.
Comfort, also has a lesser usage, as in, the children will give him no comfort, meaning, cut him no slack, make no allowances, not give any leeway or latitude.
Committet, committed.
Compaert, compared.
Competet, competed.
Completet, completed.
Complicatet, complicated.
Compostet, composted.
Compriest, comprised.
Concernt, concerned.
Conegrass, maize. Zea mays subsp. Mays.
Coney, an adult rabbit. Oryctolagus cuniculus.
Confuest, confused.
Conjoint, conjoined.
Connectet, connected.
Consciousth, consciousness.
Considert, considered.
Constructt, constructed.
Contactet, contacted.
Contemplatet, contemplated.
Continuet, continued.
Contraryth, contrariness.
Contributet, contributed.
Controllt, controlled.
Convincet, convinced.
Cookt, cooked.
Coolt, cooled.
Coolth, coolness.
Cope, the upper portion of a green sand mould.
Copyt, copied.
Cork oak, Quercus suber.
Cornt kine, corned beef. A corn was a small piece and referred to the small pieces of salt that were used to produce salt beef.
Correctet, corrected.
Corruptet, corrupted.
Cos, slang for because. In the process of becoming a Folk word.
Cot, Folk word for a male bottom, female is cotte. See cotte for further explanation.
Cotte, Folk word for a female bottom, male is cot. Both words are respectable and used by all. Both derive from apricot which like buttocks have a defined cleft. The default is the feminine, like most but not all Folk words. Cotte would be used for example for a babe of unspecified sex.
Countet, counted.
Coupelt, coupled.
Courtet, courted.
Cousine, female cousin.
Cousins. If referring to mixed sex cousins the male form of the word is the default. Likewise one would refer to an unborn cousin not cousine. Generally the female form of a word is the default in Folk, cousin is an exception.
Covert, covered.
Cowt, cowed.
Coyth, coyness.
Cozent, cozened.
Crac de lʼOpital, a huge and strategically significant crusader castle in modern Syria near the city of Homs, held for over a century by the Knights Hospitallers.
Crack, also craic, the chat, the gossip, the fun of it, the camaraderie.
Cracks in lime mortar absorb carbon dioxide from the air turning exposed calcium hydroxide into calcium carbonate which has a larger volume and mends the cracks by chemically bonding the fresh surfaces to each other as it does so.
Crackt, cracked.
Craftet, crafted.
Createt, created.
Crenellated, the characteristic of the top of a castle wall with alternating higher and lower sections,
Crenels, the lower sections of a crenellated wall.
Crimpt, crimped.
Crisps in English English are chips in American English. Chips in English English are French Fries or Fries in American English.
Crispstem, Ipomoea aquatica, water spinach or kangkong.
Crispth, crispness.
Crochet, in most forms of the word crochet the t is silent in Folk thus crocheters is cro shay ers (kroʊʃeiərʒ). The t is pronounced in crochett, the past tense of the verb.
Crochett, crocheted.
Crosst, crossed.
Crowden, crowded.
Cruck, literally a major load bearing beam used in buildings by the Folk. Oft used by the Folk metaphorically.
Crumbt, crumbed.
Crusht, crushed.
Crystalt, crystallised.
Cryt, cried.
Cuebt, cubed.
Cuert, cured.
Cumber sauce, a pickled sauce based on cumbers. Cumber, cucumber.
Cumber, cucumber.
Cut up, vernacular for cutting oneself, usually on the arms with a razor blade. Self harming.
Cutler, a maker of knifes and other cutting instruments and also other cutlery.
Cutt, cut, the past tense.
Cwm, a name pronounced Koom, (ku:m).
Damagt, damaged.
Dancet, danced.
Darkth, darkness.
Darrow, pronounced d + arrow, thus Darrow, (daroʊ).
Deadth, death.
Deadthly, deathly.
Decidet, decided.
Decidetly, decidedly.
Declaert, declared.
Decoratet, decorated.
Decreen, decreed.
Deduect, deduced
Deemt, deemed.
Deep-hat, a hat favoured by Folk who spend time in the open especially when the weather is poor, notably hunters and waggoners. It has sides and a back which can be tied up over the crown in better weather or dropped down to cover the ears and the neck. When lowered the sides and back fit on the outside of a fur coat collar preventing entry of snow or rain. It is a bad weather version of a Russian ushanka.
Deepcaltth, hypothermia.
Deepth, depth.
Defensivth, defensiveness.
Defert, deferred.
Defielt, defiled.
Defient, defined.
Delightet, delighted.
Delta, a small but meaty oily fish that lives in the brackish waters of the Arder estuary, it has few bones of note and smokes well. Large quantities are caught and hot smoked for a winter food supply. Delta are related to Liza aurata the Golden Grey Mullet but are not the same. They reach a maximum size of four spans and are sexually mature much younger than any Earth mullet species.
Demonstratet, demonstrated.
Denigratet, denigrated.
Denyt, denied.
Derivt, derived.
Descriebt, described.
Deservt, deserved.
Deservtly, deservedly.
Designt, designed.
Despiest, despised.
Determint, determined.
Devastatet, devastated.
Developt, developed.
Deviousth, deviousness.
Devotet, devoted.
Dibble, pejorative term for the police. It derives from NYPD’s Officer Charlie Dibble a character in Hanna-Barbera’s Top Cat cartoons.
Dieing, dying.
Dien, died.
Dient, dined.
Digt, dug.
Dimidd, Castle’s second moon. The terminal dd is pronounced as th in then, thus Dimith, (dimið).
Diminisht, diminished.
Dipt, dipped.
Directth, directness.
Disappeart, disappeared.
Disappointet, disappointed.
Dischargt, discharged.
Disciplint, disciplined.
Discouragt, discouraged.
Discovert, discovered.
Discusst, discussed.
Disliekt, disliked.
Dismantelt, dismantled.
Dismisst, dismissed.
Disorientet, disoriented.
Disparagt, disparagt.
Displayt, displayed.
Dispoest, disposed.
Dissatisfyt, dissatisfied.
Distillation tailings, the tail end of a distillation run containing unpalatable substances which are perfectly acceptable when diluted back down again.
Distilt, distilled.
Distinguisht, distinguished.
Distractet, distracted.
Distresst, distressed.
Disturbt, disturbed.
Dockt, docked.
Docs, Doctor Martens. An iconic English footwear and clothing brand known particularly for their boots. Without qualification the term ‘Docs’ refers to boots.
Doen, done.
Doet, did. Doet is pronounced dote, doʊnt.
Doetn’t, didn’t. Doetn’t is pronounced dough-ent, doʊɛnt, the first t is silent. Some younger members of the Master at arms office are now omitting the silent t and writing the word as doen’t, through when copying older records the older spelling is strictly adhered to.
Doomt, doomed.
Doss, sleep, so a doss bag is a sleeping bag.
Doubelt, doubled.
Doubtet, doubted.
Dourth, dourness.
Draft, the slight angle on a casting pattern which enables the pattern to be withdrawn without damage to the moulding sand prior to casting.
Drag, the lower portion of a green sand mould.
Dragt, dragged.
Draw, the force required to pull a longbow string back to its release position.
Dreaden, dreaded.
Dreampt, the subject who, or what, is dreamt about.
Dreamt, dreamed.
Dresst, dressed.
Drieth, dryness.
Drinken, drunk, verb and past participle.
Drinkn(s), drunk(s) noun.
Drives, common English usage for taxi drivers or cabbies.
Droon, a spicy seed pod it would be generous to describe as cardamon. Unique to Castle.
Dropt, dropped.
Dryt, dried.
Dubhachas. A black, bleak and desolate longing, depression, dreariness, melancholy, deep sadness.
Duckweed, various species of Lemnoideae.
Dumples, dumplings.
Dune grass, marrom grass. Ammophilia arenaria and Ammophilia breviligulata.
Dyen, dyed.
Dyke, a hedge or barriers, mostly used on castle as wind protection for crops.
Dyke, a lesbian, often implying one with a masculine, assertive, tough character.
Eagerth, eagerness.
Earthnuts, pignuts, Conopodium majus.
Easen, eased.
Eccles cake, An Eccles cake is a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. Eccles cakes are named after the English town of Eccles, historically part of Lancashire, but now in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester.
Edgers, tasty fungus found growing on trees at freshwater margins unique to Castle.
Effectivth, effectiveness.
Electric, oft used in English as a noun, used thus electric is slang for electricity, rather than an adjective.
Eliminatet, eliminated.
Elk, Alces alces, referred to as Moose in some parts of Earth.
Ellberry wine, a brandy fortified wine equivalent to Port,
Elsewise, otherwise.
Embarrasst, embarrassed.
Embracet, embraced.
Embroidert embroidered.
Emptyt, emptied.
Enabelt, enabled.
Enactet, enacted.
Encloest, enclosed.
Encouragt, encouraged.
Endeart, endeared.
Endet, ended.
Endorst, endorsed.
Enforcen, enforced.
Enhancet, enhanced.
Enjoint, enjoined.
Enjoyt, enjoyed.
Enraegt, enraged.
Enrollt, enrolled.
Entert, entered.
Entitelt, entitled.
Envisagt, envisaged.
Enwombt, enwombed.
Ephemerides, the plural of ephemeris, give the positions of naturally occurring astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times.
Eradicatet, eradicated.
Escaept, escaped.
Escortet, escorted.
Espyt, espied.
Establisht, established.
Estrangt, estranged.
Ethanol, C2H5OH, ethyl alcohol. An organic product produced by brewing yeasts working on sugars under anærobic conditions. The other product is CO2 , carbon dioxide, bubbles.
Examint, examined.
Excitet, excited.
Exerciest, exercised.
Exhaustet, exhausted.
Existet, existed.
Expectet, expected.
Experiencet, experienced.
Explaint, explained.
Explodet, exploded.
Expoest, exposed.
Extendet, extended.
Eyet, eyed.
Faarl, pronounced f + ah + l, thus Fahl, (fa:rl).
Facet, faced.
Facilitatet, facilitated.
Fæalla, an edible lizard of two to three weights.
Failt, failed.
Fain, happily, gladly, an adverb.
Fairth, fairness.
Falcon hoods, falcons are hooded to keep birds calm and also because their eye sight is so good, at least ten times better than that of a human, to be unaware of prey the falconer is uninterested in.
Family record, a family tree.
Fanny, slang for female genitalia in British English.
Fantasiest, fantasised.
Far cousins, folk of oneʼs own generation in an extended family other than near cousins. The Folk rarely make a distinction between near and far cousins any more than they do between blood and adopted kin. Likewise those of one’s parents generation would be referred to as aunties and uncles and of one’s grandparents’ generation as Granny or Granddad, though there are terms specifically indicating maternal and paternal grandparents. These terms are also used as terms of respect and oft applied to those of no relationship. The custom works downwards too to younger persons who may be referred to as daughter, son, niece, nephew, granddaughter or grandson. The latter are widely used as terms of affection for younger persons.
Far-fetcht, far fetched.
Farouchth, faroucheness.
Farth, distance, farness. Pronounced far + th, (fa:θ).
Fascinatet, fascinated.
Fashiont, fashioned.
Fastent, fastened.
Fathert, fathered.
Feart, feared.
Featly, elegantly, gracefully, but also neatly or skillfully as in ‘She sews her hems most featly.’
Fedd, fed.
Feelt, felt.
Feija, singular of feijn, pronounced fay+a, ( feia).
Feijf, human meat, pronounced fay+f, (feif), derived from beef.
Feijn, (originated in the phrase ‘the feral brain dead’) a pejorative term for the underclass who had not worked for generations and who lived off the black economy and the taxes of those who worked, pronounced fay+n, (fein). The spelling is Dutch, it is not known how this came about.
Femday, pronounced Fem + dee, thus Femdee, (fɛmdi:).
Fencet, fenced.
Fennel plants have feathery looking leafs. Foeniculum vulgare.
Fettler, one who maintains tools or machinery.
Fiddil, violin.
Fierceth, fierceness.
Fillett, filleted.
Fillt, filled.
Fillth, volume or capacity, usually used in a relative sense as in, the fillth varies but little, or as in it has a greater fillth than the barrel it replaced. See fullth.
Findt, found.
Finisht, finished.
Fireseed, the seed of an member of the Umbelliferae family unique to Castle. The seed is used ground in food, it is too dangerous to use whole in food, though it is so used in pickling spice mixes which are not eaten with the pickles. Fireseed is so hot an excess can blister the mouth before numbing the taste buds for many days, the blisters can take a lune to heal.
Firm, firm as in to the touch or as in regarding an opinion, but also as in of sound body or mind, antonym of infirm.
Firmth, firmness.
First nightdesk, the first of the two night shifts which starts at eight and finishes at two.
Firstbirtht, firstborn.
Fisht, fished.
Fitt, fitted, past tense of fit.
Fiveteen, fifteen.
Fixt, fixed
Flaemt, flamed, flame cooked, or barbecued.
Flait, fright or fear.
Flaitsome, frightening.
Flaitsomely, frighteningly.
Flash, leakage of molten metal at the junction of two parts of a sand mould, usually looking like thin fins.
Flask, a complete moulding box, drag, cheek(s) (if required) and cope.
Flat shark, blue or common skate, Dipturus batis.
Flatcakes, pancakes a thicker version of a crêpe.
Flattent, flattened.
Flatth, flatness.
Flaught, usually an adjective meaning foolish or stupid. It also is used as a collective noun indicating the foolish or the stupid.
Flaughtth, foolishness, stupidity.
Flavourt, flavoured.
Flaxcloth, linen.
Fleecen, fleeced. Only used to describe a sheep that has had its fleece removed, a shorn sheep. It is not used to indicate being the victim of theft or sharp practice.
Fleen, fled.
Fleetfoot, a species of small deer. Adults of both sexes are typically three feet tall at the shoulder and bucks are up to sixty weights, does up to forty-five weights. Plural fleetfoot.
Fletcht, fletched.
Flight feather, a typical vaned feather, of which a flight feather is an example, features a main hollow shaft, called the rachis. Fused to the rachis are a series of branches, or barbs. The barbs are also branched with the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment.
Flitch, a salted and cured side of salt gris or bacon.
Flockt, flocked, as in as a flock. Here a flock of animals constrained very close together.
Fluid drain, a diuretic herbal preparation.
Flusht, flushed.
Fluüff, pronounced flue + uff, (flu:ᴧf), a fermented cereal powder. Different makers use different combinations of cereals, but all include some rye. When steamed, fluüff rises into a dark coloured, porous, substantial cake which is then soaked in a fruit and honey syrup. Fluüff is sold as small cubes on fresh edible leaves of many kinds and is a gloriously sticky confection much loved by children from the age of one to one hundred and one. Fluüff are similar to Idlis which are made in Southern India from broken rice grains and pulses, though usually served a a savoury staple in place of rice.
Focusst, focussed.
Folkbirtht, Folk born.
Followt, followed.
Fondth, fondness.
Footet, footed.
Force, a waterfall.
Forcen, forced.
Foreby, in addition, used in Folk in a sense that implies justification.
Forgett, forgot or forgotten.
Forgivth, forgiveness.
Forgt, forged.
Forkt, forked.
Formt, formed.
Forsickth, morning sickness. Derives from forenoon sickness.
Forsickth, originally forenoon sickth but now contracted, morning sickness.
Forwardet, forwarded.
Forwardth, forwardness.
Fourty, forty.
Fraemt, framed.
Frankth, frankness.
Fray, fenugreek, Trigonella foenum-graecum.
Freen, freed.
Freshth, freshness.
Froe, a cleaving tool having a heavy blade set at right angles to the handle.
Frog, small amphibian with edible portions, back legs, Pelophylax esculentus.
Frog. The frog of a horse’s hoof is a triangular shaped structure in the centre of the hoof, the point faces forward. It acts as a shock absorber and when the horse’s weight is put on it it compresses and aids to pump blood back up the leg. It covers about a quarter of the hoof and is surrounded by the sole, which in turn is surrounded by the walls, the equivalent of human finger nails to which the shoe is nailed.
Frowart, a froward child.
Fruitt, fruited.
Frustratet, frustrated.
Fryt, fried.
Fuelt, fuelled.
Fulfilt, fulfilled.
Full stabling, Folk term for full livery.
Fullth, volume or capacity, usually a specific quantity, as in a fullth of three pints. See fillth.
Furnisht, furnished.
Fyreday, pronounced Fear + dee, thus Feardee, (fi:rdi:).
Gær, a highly aromatic spice, both nut and bark are used, gær is unique to Castle and tastes and smells vaguely like cinnamon or cassia, (geir).
Gainst, against.
Gaint, gained.
Gallopt, galloped.
Gambrel, A metal bar with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass, usually by the back legs, for butchering.
Ganger, one who is in charge of a gang of persons, a supervisor.
Gaolt, gaoled.
Gargeern, rocket.
Gathert, gathered.
Geän, a name, pronounced jee + ann, (dʒi:an).
Geldt, gelded.
Generatet, generated.
Gentle, a characteristic of those connected with lordly or noble backgrounds: the gentility.
Gentleth, gentleness.
Gevlik, a heavy, pointed iron prybar or crowbar.
Giftet, gave. A lesser usage is equivalent to blessed but without the religious connotations.
Gill, quarter of a twenty fluid ounce pint.
Gimlet, Castle term for an awl, a sharp fine pointed tool for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood.
Ginger tranny, red haired transvestite. Both words used thus are pejorative.
Girlbirtht, born as a girl.
Girls, used thus by girls to denote breasts.
Gitar, guitar.
Givn, gave.
Glæt, a hamster-like mammal of five to ten weights.
Gleant, gleaned.
Glider, squirrel like animal of the size of a coney..
Gloatet, gloated.
Glovt, gloved.
Gluen, glued.
Glulam, a glued laminated timber beam. Glulam is a generic term for beams manufactured by bonding together individual laminations of solid timber, oft to produce beams of greater dimensions than could be produced from a single tree.
Goats, the Folk use the terms nanny, billy, kid and ben for female, male, juvenile and castrated goats respectively.
Gobbin, derogatory term for one with a big gob: a loudmouth. Usually one who has nothing worthwhile to say but says it loudly.
Goen, gone.
Goent downbank, literally ‘went down hill’. Folk expression indicating deteriorating.
Goent, went.
Golden Gær, a strong sweet dessert white wine created by Bowman to which he gave his wife’s name.
Golden, in Folk usage, made of gold. The word never refers to a gold coloured object, and neither gilding nor gold plating is done. An object either is made of pure gold or it is not gold. Alloys of gold are not made.
Goldstone, iron pyrites used with flint for sparking to start a fire.
Goodeve, good evening.
Goodth, goodness.
GP, a General Practitioner, a family doctor.
Grabt, grabbed.
Graezt, grazed.
Graill, a giant isopod that lives in the sea and uses the tideline possibly to breed between two and four nights a year. They can reach three feet long and forty weights. The plural of graill is graill.
Graint, grained.
Grallochth, that which is removed from the body cavity as a result of the gralloch.
Gran, could be either maternal or paternal grandmother.
Grandda, specifically paternal grandfather.
Granddad, could be either maternal or paternal grandfather.
Granddam, specifically maternal grandmother.
Grandfa, specifically maternal grandfather.
Grandma, specifically paternal grandmother.
Grandmother, could be either maternal or paternal grandmother.
Grandmum, grandmother. Could be either grandmother.
Granny knicks, granny knickers or panties, usually white, plain and large knickers considered to be unattractive by the young and only suitable for elderly women: grannies.
Granny, could be either maternal or paternal grandmother.
Grantet, granted.
Gratet, grated
Grayhen, a female blackcock, Lyrurus tetrix.
Great white bear, polar bear, Ursus maritimus.
Green bean, runner bean. Phaseolus coccineus.
Green hotroot, wasabi. Eutrema japonicum or Wasabia japonica.
Green sand is sand used for casting, it contains a small proportion of clay which bonds the sand together.
Greenleaf, spring greens, spring cabbage or collards. Could be from many brassica varieties that produce edible leaves and occasionally other plants too.
Grief, grieve. Used as both a verb and a noun in Folk.
Griefing, grieving.
Grillt, grilled.
Grindt, ground.
Grint, grinned.
Gris, originally what would have been called wild boar, but the Folk allow all incursion pigs to make their own way, for they take too much feeding and are easy enough to hunt. For centuries those incursion pigs have bred with the original wild boar and gris are now much bigger, of greater fecundity and much more dangerous than of yore. However, they are a major meat resource. Gris are wild swine, but the term feral is not wholly inappropriate. Both wild and domestic pigs and all their hybrids can be referred to as Sus scrofa.
Griselle, shallot, Allium cepa varieties. All combinations of shape and colour, flat, round, tall, white, yellow, brown and red are cultivated.
Grislings, griskins, swinelts or piglets. Young wild swine are striped horizontally till about six months old. See gris.
Grœddi, a name, pronounced grow + thee, groʊði:.
Groept, groped.
Grownupth, grownupness.
Guano, bird manure rich in nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous, essential nutrients for plants.
Guaranteet, guaranteed.
Guidet, guided.
Gutt, gutted.
Gwaild, small pieces of crunchy noodles made from highly spiced pulse flour paste before being deep fried in oil. Usually mixed with nut and pieces of dried fruit. Gwaild is similar to Asian sev, but most mixes contains more fruit and nuts than is usual with sev mixes.
Haelth, health.
Hair slides, barrettes.
Haldol, pronounced hal + doll, thus Haldoll, (haldɒl).
Halft, halved.
Hammert, hammered.
Handelt, handled.
Happent, happened.
Happith, happiness.
Hardset, refers to both cement and limestone mortar. It can also refer to concrete.
Hardth, hardness.
Harshth, harshness.
Harvestet, harvested.
Healt, healed.
Heapt, heaped.
Hearet, heard.
Heartet, hearted.
Heartfriend, a relationship of much more significance than being a girl- or boy-friend is on Earth. Oft such relationships are formed from as young as four and they are taken seriously by both children and adults. A child’s heartfriend is automatically one of their heartfriend’s parents’ children too, and a sibling to their heartfriend’s siblings. Such relationships rarely fail and are seen as precursors to becoming intendet and having agreement, betrothed and being married.
Heartfrienden, heartfriended, verb indicating being and having a heartfriend.
Heat, a heat is nominally a degree Celsius or Centigrade, or nine fifths of a degree Fahrenheit.
Heat, to heat. Verb.
Heatth, hotness or heat. A noun. Heatth also means sexual desire. The Folk refer to a female in her heatth meaning one in heat or oestrus willing to stand and present to a male to be served. Most oft used to refer to a sexually receptive mare ready for a stallion. Heatth is used that way in connection with humans but only in private intimate conversation, between lovers or close friends, who use the term to be breedd in a similar way. Breedd is the past tense of to breed.
Helpt, helped.
Helve, a tool handle usually maekt of wood.
Herbal footwear, orthopaedic footwear.
Herbblock, a herb flavoured flour, butter and sweetroot confection oft sold topped with fruit purée.
Herbs, generic term for medication, may be poultice, extract or even green leaf, the term may apply to roots or any other material used by the healers.
Herbt, herbed or containing herbs, i.e. medicated. A lesser usage indicates flavoured with culinary herbs.
Highth, height or tallness.
Hitcht, hitched.
Hivt, hived.
Hob, a male ferret or polecat, Mustela putorius furo.
Hoept, hoped.
Hoistet, hoisted.
Holdt, held.
Hollowt, hollowed.
Honeygourd, a fragrant melon, Cucumis melo reticulatus.
Honeyroot beet, sugar beet, Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris.
Honeyt, honeyed.
Honourt, honoured.
Horology, the science of measuring time also the art of making instruments for indicating time.
Hospitallers, The Knights Hospitallers, a religious and military order under its own Papal charter, was charged with the care and defence of the Holy Land and those on pilgrimage.
Hotsweet, a mildly hot pepper, Capsicum annuum, cooked with honey and ocean leaf, the ocean leaf and pepper skins are discarded and the remainder including the seeds evaporated down and poured into moulds to set.
Hotweed, pepper dulse or spice dulse, Osmundea pinnatifida.
Houst, housed.
Humbelth, humbleness.
Huntet, hunted.
Hville, a name , pronounced huh + vee, hᴧvi:.
Ide, Leuciscus idus a member of the carp family. Usually cool smoked. Also known as Orfe on Earth.
Idelth, idleness.
Identifyt, identified.
Iecet, iced.
Ignort, ignored.
Illth, illness.
Illths, illnesses.
Implacabelth, implacableness.
Implyt, implied.
Impresst, impressed.
Imprinting, geese will imprint on the first suitable moving object they see within 13 to 16 hours after hatching, they will follow what they imprint on as if it were their mother.
Improven, improved.
Inconveniencet, inconvenienced.
Increast, increased.
Incurt, incurred.
Indicatet, indicated.
Inexperiencet, inexperienced.
Infectet, infected.
Inflaemt, inflamed.
Informt, informed.
Ingeniator, original form of the word engineer (civil).
Ingraint, ingrained.
Inhabitet, inhabited.
Inheritet, inherited.
Init, isn’t it, English slang / dialectal form.
Initiatet, initiated.
Inlayn, inlaid.
Inner Isles. Term used for the Inner Hebrides in the Ocean Isles.
Innovativth, innovativeness.
Inoculaten, inoculated. A new verb to Folk. That it takes takes en in the past tense indicates it has by default been defined as a strong verb.
Insecticide is derived from what the Folk refer to as Strewing Daisy: Tanacetum cinerariifolium. A daisy like flower with white petals and a yellow centre that contains pyrethrins. The yellow colour is due to a harmless and inactive substance added to make the insecticide instantly recognisable and so safer.
Insistet, insisted.
Installt, installed.
Instructt, instructed.
Insultet, insulted.
Intendet, intende, verb.
Intendet, intended, noun, fiancée or fiancé, the person whom one intends to marry, betrothed.
Interestet, interested.
Interruptet, interrupted.
Interviewt, interviewed.
Intriguet, intrigued.
Introducet, introduced.
Inventivth, inventiveness.
Invertet, inverted.
Invitet, invited.
Invokt, invoked.
Involvt, involved.
Iola, I as in eye oh la, eye+oh+la, aiəʊla.
Irkt, irked.
Irritatet, irritated.
Isolaett, isolated.
Jack, a male hare. As fas as is known the arctic hare, Lepus arcticus, is the only hare found on Castle. Most do not change their coat colour with the seasons but remain white all year. It was originally thought the hares from far south of the Keep which are white in winter and silver gray in summer were a different species but opinion changed when it was realised they successfully bred with the northern form, at what had been considered to be the extreme edges of their respective ranges.
Jellyt, jellied.
Jijk, pronounced halfway between Duke and Jake, (dʒju:k).
Jill, a female ferret or polecat, Mustela putorius furo.
Joining as kin, Folk expression indicating adoption into a kinship group.
Joint, joined.
Jumpt, jumped.
Juniper Spirits, Genièvre, Dutch Gin.
Justifyt, justified.
Keept, kept.
Keld, a seafish somewhat like the cod Gadus morhua.
Kettle, term used for a deep cooking utensil, anything from a small saucepan to a huge cauldron.
Killt, killed.
Kindth, kindness.
King Edward, Edward Longshanks later Edward I, 17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307.
Kippert, kippered. A new Folk verb with a Folk past tense. Unusually this has taken a weak verb form.
Kisst, kissed.
Kitchener, though part of the kitchen staff the kitcheners are a distinct craft comprising kitchen supervisors and their staff of servers, waiters, dish washers and storekeepers.
Kithal has the same relationship to kith that familial has to family and parental has to parent, though usually kithal supervision implies the oversight of a responsible older child rather than that of an adult.
Knicks, English girls’ slang for knickers, panties.
Knitt, knitted.
Knockt, knocked.
Knoewn, knew.
Krill, small crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea.
Kroïns, Chinese artichokes, crosnes. Stachys affinis.
La Manche, the channel between England and France.
La’al, little or small. English dialectal form.
Labelt, labelled.
Lacet, laced.
Lack learner, literally one who lacks learning, usually applied to one whose placement is such that one would expect them to know what they clearly do not.
Lærer, an adult trainee.
Lamping, hunting after dark with a bright light which will often immobilise prey especially coneys.
Larboard, port.
Larov, pronounced l + a + rov, thus Larov, (larɒv).
Lasht, lashed.
Lastbirtht, last born.
Lastbloom root, root of rosebay willow herb, Epilobiun angustifolium, also known as Chamaenerion angustifolium.
Lastday, yesterday.
Lastdaysince, the day before yesterday, cf. nextdaynigh, the day after tomorrow.
Lastet, lasted.
Lastnightsince, the night before last night.
Lathert, lathered.
Laught, laughed.
Launcht, launched.
Layt, laid.
Leaçe, a right of intimate access to the person of one’s acknowledged loved one.
Leaçen of to have a leaçe of the person mentioned.
Leaf, a mildly stimulating herbal drink equivalent to tea or coffee made from the leafs of several plant products, including roots and seeds as well as leafs.
Leathers, leather clothes, usually trousers and jacket, as worn by motorcyclists.
Leech, any of a large number of parasitic or predatory annelid worms some of which like Hirudo medicinalis suck blood. Leech is thus also used to indicate a fortune-hunter or gold-digger. An opprobrious term in Folk, for those who do not contribute their fair share are despised and so rare as they usually change their ways or give themselves to Castle. Despite that it is a name of pride given to particularly good trackers for their ability to stick to a track like a leech.
Leet, an artificial watercourse supplying water to a mill wheel or a mill dam.
Left eyen, left eyed, one who aims using their left eye.
Left thrower, one who is left handed. Likewise a right thrower is a right handed person.
Leggen, leggèd.
Lek, at dawn in the spring, blackcock, Lyrurus tetrix, gather in a group called a lek. They strut around in areas that are used every year and display whilst making a distinctive mating call to entice grayhens to mate. They are said to be lekking.
Lessent, lessened.
Lesser Isle. Term used for Ireland in the Ocean Isles.
Liekt, liked.
Liekth, likeness, similarity.
Lien, lain.
Lient, lined.
Limitet, limited.
Lingberry, lingon, related to cranberry: Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
Lippy, used by English teenage girls as slang for lipstick.
Lisebrime, beachcomb, verb.
Lisebriming, beach combing.
Listener, a Castle version of a stethoscope.
Listent, listened.
Literalth, literalness.
Little hunters, any of several species of large centipedes, the largest of which reach over a foot long and weigh over a weight. They are usually boiled and peeled like graill, prawn or shrimp though they are popular spit roasted on a stick like a kebab on the Quarterday food stalls.
Liver toxicity. The livers of several arctic species are high in vitamin A (retinol) which is widely held to be toxic on Earth, though some authorities ascribe the toxicity to heavy metals rather than retinol. Many heavy metals build up in the livers of marine carnivores and of particular concern are cadmium, arsenic and mercury. On Castle, even to hunters with dogs, such liver is never available in quantity and only a small portion is available for each hunter and dog which, coupled with the pristine nature of Castle’s environment and total lack of heavy metal contamination, may explain the lack of any effects due to eating such liver.
Livt, lived.
Loadet, loaded.
Locatet, located.
Lockt, locked.
Lodgt, lodged.
Loenth, loneliness.
Loes, lost.
Lolly, vernacular for Lolita. The word derives from Lolita a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1955. In the book Lolita is a sexually precocious pre-pubertal girl.
Longroot, burdock root. Arctium lappa.
Longt, longed.
Longth, length. Usually a measurement, but when used referring to the limbs of a longbow, refers to the length of the string between its points of attachment to the bow, so is significantly less than the length of the unstrung bow..
Longth(s), penise(s). Unlike hardth which implies an erect penis the word longth carries no such implication.
Looesth, looseness.
Lookt, looked.
Lorimer, a maker of bits, spurs, rings and other small metal objects usually associated with horse tack.
Loveapple, hardy tomato.
Lovestrikt, lovestruck, to fall in love on sight.
Lovt, loved.
Lunecycle, menstrual cycle.
Lunesickth, general term that includes all unpleasant effects of PMS, premenstrual syndrome.
Lunge, halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus.
Luthier, a musical instrument maker, strictly a stringed musical instrument maker.
Luval, pronounced Loo + val, thus Looval, (lu:val).
M&S, a U.K. high street retail giant known especially for selling women’s and girl’s clothes including granny knickers of which they have a huge turnover. See granny knickers.
Machinen, machined. A new strong verb.
Machiolated, machiolations are sections of overhanging stonework protecting defenders at the top of a castle wall. They enable material to be dropped on to attackers without defenders having to expose themselves.
Madth, madness.
Maekt, made.
Maid, a virgin.
Maidar an unmarried boy or man of any age. He may or may not have been married before. Rarely used.
Maiden rams, rams born this year.
Maiden, an unmarried virgin, though the word is used in other senses.
Maider an unmarried girl or woman of any age. She may or may not have been married before.
Maintaint, maintained.
Maker mark. A signature mark stamped, burnt or otherwise placed on an article indicating the individual crafter who made the article.
Males, testes.
Malnourisht, malnourished.
Maltet, malted.
Managt, managed.
Manchet, a large, high quality loaf used by the Folk for slicing, usually baked in a rectangular tin.
Manchette, a small, round, high quality loaf baked without using a tin.
Mannert, mannered.
Manure heatth, the heat generated by decomposing manure.
Mapt, mapped.
Marine meat, sea food.
Marine soup, a popular spicy shellfish and ocean leaf soup whose exact composition is variable according to seasonal availability of ingredients.
Marleän, a star in the Castle sky, pronounced mar + lee + ann, (marli:an).
Marmite, Marmite is the brand name of a sticky, salty, dark brown food paste with a distinctive, powerful flavour. It is made from yeast extract, a by product of beer brewing.
Marranth, amaranth.
Marryt, married.
Masht, mashed.
Master at arms Hall of Artefacts, the museum of the Folk.
Mastert, mastered.
Matcht, matched.
Matter-of-factth, matter-of-factness.
Mattert, mattered.
Matuert, matured.
Mayalhurst Hall, a fictional theme park popular for school outings in the north-west of England.
Mazun, mason
Mazun, mason.
Meant, in Folk it is pronounced mean+t, mi:nt.
Measuring the options, a Folk expression equivalent to weighing up.
Meatcake, mixt cereal flour batter oven cooked in hot fat which makes it expand to a light airy cake many times its original volume, equivalent to Yorkshire pudding. Literally a cake served with meat, usually roast meat.
Melloewt, mellowed.
Melt, spleen.
Meltet, melted.
Mentiont, mentioned.
Mercyfruit, hot pepper or chile. Capsicum annuum and Capsicum chinense.
Merlons, the higher sections of a crenellated wall.
Mews, a place where hunting birds are housed.
Mient, mined.
Mijom, a large oceanic pelagic fish which may reach two hundred and fifty weights. The flesh is like that of tuna and there is little waste on mijom. They are tasty and much sought after by the Folk. Mijom is pronounced me + hom, mi:hɒm.
Mil, a Castle mil was thus somewhat more than a kilometre, though the term has passed out of use.
Mildth, mildness.
Milkt, milked.
Mincet meat flats, essentially meat burgers.
Mincet, minced.
Mindet, minded.
Minyet, pronounced min + yet, thus Minyet, (mɪnjɛt).
Miscallt, miscalled.
Mishearet, misheard.
Mislayt, mislaid.
Misplacet, misplaced.
Mist, missed.
Misunderstandt, misunderstood.
Mittent, mittened.
Mixt, mixed.
Modifyt, modified.
Moil, in glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation. In Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.
Moistth, moistness, or moisture.
Mongst, amongst.
Mor Breizh, pronounced moːʁˈbʁɛjs, the channel between England and France.
Mortifyt, mortified.
Mountet, mounted.
Mournt, mourned.
Moutht, mouthed.
Movt, moved.
Muckt, mucked.
Mug of bile, Folk expression equivalent to a poisoned chalice.
Murder hole, a gap in the roof of a space whose primary purpose is illumination, but also available to defending archers and others.
My sorrow, I’m sorry. The word sorry is not used in Folk. Oft the speaker will say “Sorrow” omitting the My.
Myxy, myxomatosis is caused by Myxoma virus, a disease in European coneys causing blindness, skin tumours and fever prior to death which occurs in two to fourteen days.
Naekt, naked.
Naektth, nakedness.
Naemt, named.
Natural painkillers during childbirth, endorphins.
Naytheless, never the less or in any case.
Near cousins, children of those oneʼs parents consider to be their siblings.
Nearth, nearness or proximity.
Needet, needed.
Neeps, swede, rutabaga, winteroot. Brassica napus, napobrassica group.
Nelson, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805).
Nelt, a flatfish that can grow to five or six feet long and wide. It is similar to turbot, Scophthalmus maximus.
Nervousth, nervousness.
Newbirtht, newborn.
Newfolk, new Folk.
Nextday, tomorrow.
Nextdaynigh, the day after tomorrow.
Nexteve, tomorrow evening.
Ninday, pronounced Nin + dee, this Nindee, (nɪndi:).
Nithing, an exceptionally vile, despicable person, a person completely without honour. A term of utmost opprobrium especially used in connection with oath breakers and murderers.
Nocked, an arrow ready to draw in a bow with the bow string in the rear end of the arrow is said to be nocked.
Noisy-bee, the bumble bee Bombus terrestris.
Noith, reluctant to try anything new or unfamiliar.
None, no-one.
Notet, noted.
Noticet, noticed.
Notifyt, notified.
Nurst, nursed.
Obeyt, obeyed.
Objectet, objected.
Obligatet, obligated.
Obligt, obliged.
Obsesst, obsessed.
Obtaint, obtained.
Occurt, occurred.
Ocean Isles. The Ocean Isles are a fictitious archipelago father away from mainland Britain than the Outer Hebrides. The most south eastern extremity of the Ocean Isles includes the isles of St. Kilda. The archipelago stretches north west from St. Kilda. The language spoken there is Vorn.
Ocean leaf, generic term for all edible seaweed. Seaweed is a term reserved by the Folk for that collected for fire fuel, compost or other non culinary uses.
Ocean Life, a fictional aquarium based entertainment centre popular with families.
Oewt, owed.
Offcut meats or offcuts, a Castle term for heads, feet and tails. Occasionally other poorer cuts, like necks, are referred to as offcuts too. The name arose because the head, feet and tail are usually cut off when an animal is skinned, which may in the case of game be some time after it is grallocht.
Offcutt, the past tense of the verb to offcut meaning to remove offcuts, a back formation from offcuts, itself a one time neologism of some antiquity indicating those things which have been cut off.
Offendet, offended.
Offert, offered.
Oilt, oiled.
Old English, Anglo-Saxon. There was a vast number of dialects and they changed with time very quickly.
On the knock, vernacular expression meaning working as a prostitute.
One hundred and twelve Castle gallons is equivalent to about 112 Imperial gallons, 510 litres or 140 U.S. Gallons.
One who gives more kicks than grossths, a bully, especially of children, one who gives more physical chastisements than rewards. A grossth is a tiny amount of money, a one hundred and forty-fourth of a token, oft given to children as a reward for good behaviour or in appreciation of their help.
Opent, opened.
Openth, openness.
Opient, opined.
Ordert, ordered.
Organiest, organised.
Originatet, originated.
Orkæke, a berry spice with a unique taste, and unique to Castle, pronounced oar + cake + kuh (as in cup), (ɔrkeikər).
Otday, pronounced Ot + dee, thus Otdee, (ɒtdi:).
Outer Isles. Term used for the Outer Hebrides in the Ocean Isles.
Outlient, outlined.
Over bedtime, past bedtime.
Over. Over and since are both used for ago which is not used, as in centuries over or a few days since. Over tends to be used for events further back than a few years and since for more recent events, but they are used somewhat interchangeably.
Overburdent, overburdened.
Overgrief, a term used by healers for depression.
Overhearet, overheard.
Overlookt, overlooked.
Overratet, overrated.
Overruelt, overruled.
Oversiezt, oversized.
Overweighn, overwieght, could refer to a waggon too heavily loaded or to someone who is fat.
Packt, packed.
Padt, padded.
Paedo, paedophile, English vernacular.
Paelt, paled.
Paintet, painted.
Pairt, paired.
Pan, term only used for a shallow cooking utensil like a frying pan or a griddle with a handle.
Parkin, a variety of ginger cake containing oatmeal, molasses treacle and ginger popular in northern England and southern Scotland often associated with Yorkshire: Yorkshire Parkin.
Partet, parted.
Partial Council meeting, a meeting of those Councillors and others with special interest or expertise in the matter under discussion. Effectively an ad hoc sub committee.
Parting plane, the plane that forms the junction of two parts of a flask.
Passt, passed.
Pastry pin, rolling pin.
Patterns, wooden originals used in casting metal parts, they have to be oversize to allow for the shrinkage of cooling liquid metal and to provide some finishing allowance.
Patternt, patterned.
Pattet, patted.
Payt, paid.
Pease cake, pulse cake maekt with peas.
Peaten, peated, with the aromaticity and flavour of peat.
Peel peeler, a miser, or nigon. A parsimonious person.
Peelt, peeled.
Peint, peined.
Penicillin, an antibiotic prepared from Penicillium notatum now Penicillium chrysogenum.
Pennyroyals, a mint flavoured confection served with the spiced leaf usually after a formal dinner.
Peppern, peppered. An example of a new verb to Castle taking the strong rather than the weak suffix in the past imperfect tense.
Perceivt, perceived.
Perfectet, perfected.
Perisht, perished.
Perse, purple.
Persebloom, purple broccoli. A cultivar of Brassica oleracea.
Perseroot, turnip usually with purple shoulders. A cultivar of Brassica rapa subsp. rapa.
Perseveert, persevered.
Persuadet, persuaded.
Pervs, English vernacular for perverts.
Pheasant Kitchener, pheasant breasts prepared like Chicken Kiev with herbed butter, griselle and truffelle. Herbed butter, shallots and truffles.
Phraest, phrased.
Phthalen, a name, pronounced Talen as in T + Allen, (talɛn).
Pickt, picked.
Piept, piped.
Pink sauce, maekt from white hotroot, blötroot and sourt cream, horseradish, beetroot and soured cream.
Pinkhair, a fungus known to some as lion’s mane fungus, Hericium erinaceus.
Pinkstem, rhubarb, Rheum × hybridum.
PJs, pyjamas, nightwear.
Placet, placed.
Plankt, planked.
Plannen, planned.
Plantet, planted.
Playt, played.
Pleast, pleased.
Pleasuert, pleasuert, only used in asexual context in Folk, as in to provide sexual pleasure.
Plod, pejorative term for police. Mr. Plod was a fictional bumbling police officer in the Noddy series of children’s books by Enid Blyton.
Ploughn, ploughed. Primary usage is cultivation. A secondary usage is sexual.
Plumb, vertical, square, straight and also used, especially by children, to describe someone or something they approve of. Not quite plumb is oft kindly used to describe someone of limited metal faculties or suffering from dementia. Other uses include compos mentis and also straight-forward, honest or open.
Poacht, poached.
Poelt, poled, harnessed to the pole.
Pointet, pointed.
Poisont, poisoned.
Polaris, the pole star, which has been used on Earth to indicate the direction of north and latitude since antiquity.
Polisht, polished.
Politth, politeness.
Portcullis, a heavily armoured gate. A castle fortification which slides vertically in recesses at its sides.
Posh, word usually used by the lower classes to describe the upper classes, though the latter have started to use it in jest. It is said to derive from the days of the British Raj when ships’ passage was more expensive in a cabin or suite on the side of the ship in the shade. Such accommodation was said to be ‘Port Out, Starboard Home’.
Poshed up, English vernacular phrase meaning dressed up, looking posh.
Poundet, pounded.
Pourt, poured.
Powdert, powdered.
Powert, powered.
Practiest, practised.
Prefert, preferred.
Prepaert, prepared.
Presentet, presented.
Preservt, preserved.
Presst, pressed.
Pressuriest, pressurised.
Presuemt, presumed.
Preventet, prevented.
Priezt, prized.
Privilegt, privileged.
Processt, processed.
Proclaimt, proclaimed.
Producet, produced.
Prolly, slang for probably.
Promisst, promised.
Pronouncet, pronounced.
Propoest, proposed.
Protectet, protected.
Protectivth, protectiveness rather than protection.
Providet, provided.
Provokt, provoked.
Puberty, early female Puberty. There is a body of evidence that suggests girls reared without the presence of a loving male parent undergo puberty early. It has been postulated this is a mechanism whereby they can acquire the male protector, a mate, that they have grown up without. A loving stepfather present early enough in their life, very young just a toddler, is a male that prevents the mechanism kicking in, but it is thought to be too late by the time a girl is of school age. The entire subject is still the subject of ongoing research and little is definite, but most workers are convinced there is some truth in the supposition.
Pubes, vernacular English for pubic hairs.
Public schools in Britain, are outside the state sector, fee paying, exclusive and expensive.
Pulled a shed load, English vernacular for made a lot of money.
Pullt, pulled.
Pulse cake, pulses usually dried rather than fresh, cooked to a mush and allowed to cool. On cooling they set and the resultant block, pulse cake, can be sliced.
Pumpt, pumped
Purchaest, purchased.
Pursuet, pursued.
Pusht, pushed.
Quaire, unusual, different, odd. Old Folk word not much used other than by the well educated or well read in the archives.
Quairely, oddly, peculiarly.
Quarter twelvth, an absolute value of one forty-eighth of a whole token.
Questiont, questioned.
Quick, fast. Another usage is alive.
Quidproquo, a fictional local cheap store that sells near enough every thing, but which carries large amounts of women’s and girls clothes.
Quietent, quietened.
Quietth, quietness.
Quorice, liquorice root. Glycyrrhiza glabra.
Quoten, quoted.
Quoth, quoted, only used in third person singular, else quoten is used. Quoth is used with hath not has.
Rack, an imported American term signifying bosom or breasts. In English English there is no pornographic connotation and young girls are happy to used the term.
Raegt, raged.
Raept, raped.
Raist, raised.
Ram, pack the sand around the pattern.
Ravisht, ravished.
Raxt, raxed. The major use is transitive and refers to muscle strain, as in she raxt her calf muscle. The lessor, but common intransitive use of the verb is a vaginal tenderness, soreness or feeling of being over stretched after having had sex, oft used in connection with having had sex with an unusually well endowed male, as in she was, or she felt, raxt.
Reacht, reached.
Reactet, reacted.
Readd, read, the past tense.
Readith, readiness.
Readyt, readied.
Realiest, realised.
Reart, reared.
Reasonablth, reasonableness.
Recallt, recalled.
Receivt, received.
Receptivth, receptiveness.
Recogniest, recognised.
Recompenst, recompensed.
Record, document. Noun and verb.
Recordet, recorded, documented.
Records, generic term for paperwork not just records.
Recovert, recovered.
Recruitet, recruited.
Rectifyt, rectified.
Red sour, a hardy Seville like citrus fruit. It is red like a blood orange. The word orange is unknown in Folk and the colour is described as sunset.
Redleaf, red cabbage. Cultivars of Brassica oleracea.
Redresst, redressed.
Redroots, carrots, often cooked and served with the green tops still on. Daucus carota subsp. Sativus.
Redspot, plaice, Pleuronectes platessa.
Reducet, reduced.
Reedroot, tastes similar to ginger/galanga, bright yellow unique to Castle.
Refert, referred.
Reflectet, reflected.
Refresht, refreshed.
Refuest, refused.
Regardet, regarded.
Registert, registered.
Regresst, regressed.
Regrettet, regretted.
Rehearst, rehearsed.
Reimburst, reimbursed.
Rein in, Folk expression meaning, go easy or back off.
Reinforcen, reinforced.
Reiteratet, reiterated.
Rejectet, rejected.
Related, related.
Relaxt, relaxed.
Relievt, relieved.
Relyt, relied.
Remaint, remained.
Remarryt, remarried.
Remembert, remembered.
Remindet, reminded.
Remissth, remissness.
Remonstratet, remonstrated.
Removt, removed.
Remuneratet, remunerated.
Rendert, rendered.
Renewt, renewed.
Rent boy, young male prostitute.
Repairt, repaired.
Repeatet, repeated.
Repeatetly, repeatedly.
Replacet, replaced.
Reportet, reported.
Reprimandet, reprimanded.
Requested, requested.
Requiert, required.
Resin collected by bees, propolis. Bees collect it from trees.
Resolvt, resolved.
Respectet, respected.
Restet, rested.
Restort, restored.
Restraint, restrained.
Retiren, retired.
Retrievt, retrieved.
Returnt, returned.
Revengt, revenged.
Revertet, reverted.
Revielt, reviled.
Riandet, something of no importance.
Richth, richness.
Ridicuelt, ridiculed.
Rielt, riled.
Right eyen, right eyed, one who aims using their right eye.
Right thrower, one who is right handed. Likewise a left thrower is a left handed person.
Rightth, rightness.
Ripent, ripened.
Risings, baking powder contains crystals of nahcolite, sodium bicarbonate, the source of the carbon dioxide bubbles and crystals of cream of tartar or potassium bitartrate, a weak acid that reacts with the sodium bicarbonate to release the carbon dioxide, usually assisted by buttermilk, citric fruit juice or vinegar.
Rivetet, riveted.
Robustth, robustness.
Rocksquat, a small crustacean rather like a langoustine without the oversized claws.
Rooft, roofed.
Rubt, rubbed.
Ruelt, ruled.
Runner, the rotating upper stone of a pair of millstones. The lower is the bedstone.
Saddent, saddened.
Sadth, sadness.
Safeguardet, safeguarded.
Saijät, pronounced sigh + airt, (saiɛərt) a mystical consciousness that passes from philosophical leader to philosophical leader according to it’s own volition, or may hap whimsy. The choice may not be gainsaid due to the intellect and perception that accompanies it. For millennia, Saijät has been both the title and subsequently the name of the chosen one.
Sailt, sailed.
Sallys, nick name for the Salvation Army.
Saltt, salted, as in preserved.
Samphire, Marsh samphire, Salicornia bigelovii is a marine vegetable that grows abundantly on shorelines, in marshy shallows and on salty mudflats. It has a crisp texture and tastes of the sea. Also eaten is Rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum. Equally crunchy and salty the latter has a much stronger aromatic taste reminiscent of carrots and parsnips.
Sanctimoniousth, sanctimoniousness.
Sandcloth, fabric with sand, or other crushed stone, glued to it as an abrasive sheet or strip.
Sanno, a gambling game played with domino or mah jong like pieces. Sanno requires skill and psychological insight.
Sassenach, to a Highland Scot literally a Saxon, now an English person or a Lowland Scot.
Satisfyt, satisfied.
Saught, ease, peace also reconciliation.
Saughten, reconciled, at ease.
Saughtful, peaceful.
Savoy, now in modern day France, Italy and Switzerland.
Savt, saved.
Sayal, meatloaf, usually heavily herbed.
Sayt, said.
Scaelt, Scaled.
Scaldt, scalded.
Scentet balm, lemon balm. Melissa officinalis
Scoert, scored.
Scolt, scolded.
Scorpis, either of two species of large scorpions. The most common one is usually found living in lightly covered deciduous woodland amongst the fallen leafs and the other in semi-arid grassy sand dunes.
Scraept, scraped.
Scrambelt, scrambled.
Screamt, screamed.
Screwt, screwed.
Scrubgourd, Luffa acutangula.
Sea lettuce, Ulva lactuca.
Sea-worms, blow lugworm, Arenicola marina.
Seaburn, sea coal.
Seagreen, sea lettuce, Ulva lactuca, an ocean leaf.
Sealt, sealed.
Seam side, the down side of something.
Searcht, searched.
Seasonen, seasoned.
Second nightdesk, the second of the two night shifts which starts at two and finishes at eight.
Secondet, seconded.
Seducet, seduced.
Seedyt, seeded, something containing or covered with seeds.
Seeën, saw.
Seekt, sought.
Seemt, seemed.
Selectet, selected.
Self-consciousth, self-consciousness.
Self-disciplint, self-disciplined.
Separatet, separated.
Seriousth, seriousness.
Servt, served.
Sett, past tense of set.
Settelt, settled.
Sexday, pronounced Sex + dee, thus Sexdee, (sɛxdi:).
Sextant, a hand held navigation instrument used on Castle and Earth to determine latitude
Sgons, scones.
Shaemt, shamed.
Shaept, shaped.
Shaert, shared.
Sharpent, sharpened.
Sharpleaf, nasturtium. Tropaeolum majus.
Sharproot, winter radish. Numerous cultivars of Raphanus sativus.
Sharpth, sharpness.
Shavt, shaved.
Sheepherd, shepherd.
Shelft, shelved.
Shellt, shelled.
Sheltert, sheltered.
Shentth, shame or disgrace.
Shewt, shewed.
Shiftet, shifted. Oft used to indicate the wind is blowing from a different direction.
Shine, sun or sunshine.
Shipt, shipped.
Shirken, shirked.
Shockt, shocked.
Shoen, shod.
Shoon, shoes.
Shoutet, shouted.
Showert, showered.
Shredd, shredded.
Shrink rules are used by founders to lay out patterns, they take into account the shrinkage of molten metal as it cools and solidifies, thus a wiedth on a shrink rule is longer than a true wiedth. Shrink rules are unique to a particular metal because different metals shrink by different amounts.
Shrub fowl, a variety of partridge. Only the males have bright yellow legs. Perdix perdix flavens.
Shungiku, edible chrysanthemum leaf. Glebionis coronaria.
Shunt, shunned.
Shyth, shyness.
Sickth, sickness, usually implies vomiting. A more general term is illth, illness.
Side axe, a small axe only sharpened on one side of the blade. They are forged such that the helve may be inserted from either side of the eye to produce left and right handed versions.
Sidet, sided.
Siezt, sized.
Signt, signed.
Silvern, in Folk usage, made of silver. The word never refers to a silver coloured object, and silver plating is not done. An object either is made of pure silver or it is not silver. Alloys of silver are not made.
Since. Since and over are both used for ago which is not used, as in a few days since or centuries over. Over tends to be used for events further back than a few years and since for more recent events, but they are used somewhat interchangeably.
Sincely, recently.
Single-mindedth, single-mindedness.
Sinken, sank.
Sipps, croûtons.
Sitet, sited.
Sjkwuday, pronounced sjkw as ch (as in Scottish loch) + oo + dee, thus Choodee, (χu:di:).
Skenning, squinting.
Skep, a circular beehive made from a coiled straw rope.
Sketcht, sketched.
Skillt, skilled.
Skint, skinned.
Skirtt, skirted.
Slant eyes, pejorative term for anyone with oriental eyes due to the presence of the epicanthic fold.
Slaters, woodlice. Woodlice are Isopods of within the suborder Oniscidea, there are over 5,000 known species on Earth. There are less than that on Castle where they can reach two wiedths long and both a wiedth high and wide.
Slattet, slatted.
Slew, a close relative of pheasant. Slew are over twice the size of pheasant. The cocks have characteristic dark green, bordering on black, metallic plumage and make a distinctive rattling sound. The silent hens have non-metallic, mottled, pale buff plumage enabling them blend in with the background even when not trying to be unobserved. Phasianus colchicus giganteus.
Slicet, sliced.
Slightth, slightness.
Slim, crafty, clever, cunning. Considered a little old fashioned, if not actually archaic, by many Folk, and not much used by most, though Slimlyspoon and to a lesser extent Slimlyspoonful are still popular personal names.
Slipt, slipped.
Smackhead, strictly a heroin addict, but in practice a junkie who could be using any drug or combination thereof.
Smackt, smacked.
Smallseed, covers a multitude of species, millets, sorghums, and buckwheats.
Smokt, smoked.
Snap, expression derived from a children’s card game requiring identical cards to be paired, When a match is achieved one says “Snap.” Snap is more widely used as an expression to indicate a match has been achieved.
Snapt, snapped.
Snow pie, a pie with a lightly baked meringue top.
Soakt, soaked.
Sobert, sobered.
Soerth, soreness.
Softent, softened.
Solemnth, solemness.
Solvt, solved.
Some other, Folk term meaning someone else.
Sorrow, I’m sorry. The word sorry is not used in Folk. The full expression is ‘My sorrow’.
Sortet, sorted.
Sounder, collective noun for a group of wild swine, usually related females and their young. See gris.
Sour gourd, a cucurbit containing quinine. Momordica charantia.
Source of tapioca flour is cassava root, Manihot esculenta.
Sourleaf, essentially sauerkraut, but maekt with a wide variety of leafy vegetables. The salt aids anaerobic bacteria to turn sugars to lactic acid which preserves the vegetables and denies spoilage bacteria the sugars.
Sourleaf, essentially sauerkraut.
Sours, small citrus fruits cut into eighths and sweetened with honey before being dried and then dusted with various spices.
Sourt wine, vinegar.
Spaech, speech.
Spaeker, speaker.
Spaeking, speaking.
Spake, spoke.
Spaken, spoken. The verb to speak is different in Folk, and uses spaek, spaeking, spake and spaken. None of its forms have the letter o in them. Spaech is used rather than speech.
Span. There are three spans to the Castle foot, so a span is approximately four Earth inches or one hundred millimetres.
Spargus asparagus.
Specials, unusual trees or parts of trees of particularly high value.
Spelks, splinters.
Spicet, spiced.
Spiceweed, spicy green leaf, tender and tasty, widespread in the wild, but cultivated varieties grow lusher, tastier and less bitter than the wild form. There is no Earth equivalent, Unique to Castle.
Spiceweed, spicy green leaf, tender and tasty, widespread no Earth equivalent.
Spint, spun.
Spiral staircases. A staircase spiralling anticlockwise as seen from above has more room at its outer edge so would be defended from above by right handed swordsmen who would have more space to wield a sword than a right handed attacker who would be hampered by the central column. Likewise one spiralling clockwise as seen from above would favour left handed defenders defending from above. On Earth about one in seven flights was built to advantage left handed defenders. Attackers unaware of the staircase layout would be forced to fight under what ever circumstances they found themselves.
Spirit, nearly pure ethanol.
Spiritet, spirited.
Spitt, spitted, past tense of spit, as in spit roasted.
Splitt, split.
Spoonerism, an error in speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels or morphemes are switched between two words in a phrase. It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this mistake.
Spose, English slang for suppose.
Sposed, English slang for supposed.
Spouter, geyser.
Sprayt, sprayed.
Springen, sprang.
Sprinkelt, sprinkled.
Squandert, squandered.
Squeamishth, squeamishness.
Stabelt, stabled.
Staelt, staled.
Standt, stood.
Starchroot, floury potato, Solanum tuberosum. Waxy potatoes are referred to as waxroots, though the distinction is neither absolute nor always adhered to.
Starnut, water chestnut, Trapa natans.
Startelt, startled.
Startet, started.
Statet, stated.
Staved, shaped into barrel staves, the individual pieces of wood, usually oak, that go to make up a barrel.
Staving iron, Folk coopers’ term for a draw knife used to shape the staves of a barrel.
Stayt, stayed.
Stead a, English slang for in stead of.
Steamt, steamed.
Steelies, workman’s boots with steel toe caps.
Steepth, steepness.
Steerageway, the minimum forward speed required for a ship to be manoeuvred by the helm.
Stert, pronounced stir + t, thust Stirt, (stɛrt).
Stick, the trunk of a felled tree containing most of the most useful wood.
Stickering, the separating of cut timber using thin laths known as stickers to separate the timber to aid drying. Possibly derived from the stickers originally being referred to as sticks. Historically thin branches or sticks were used. Timbers so separated are said to be stickered.
Stickith, stickiness.
Stickt, stuck.
Stillbirtht, stillborn.
Stinkt, stank.
Stintt, stinted.
Stitcht, stitched.
Stockt, stocked.
Stoekt, stoked.
Stoert, stored.
Stoewt, stowed.
Stopt, stopped.
Stottie cake, bread that originated in north east England. It is a flat and round loaf, usually about twelve inches across up to two inches thick, with a dimple in the middle made by the baker’s fist. Characteristically stotties are heavy and doughy in texture. They are usually split and filled.
Straight-forwardth, straight-forwardness.
Straight, a lesser English usage indicating heterosexual.
Stranden, stranded.
Street cred, street credibility, status.
Stresst, stressed.
Stretcht, stretched.
Strikt, struck.
String, more properly a measure string, a piece of thin cord knotted at regular intervals used by various crafts for measuring purposes. A seamster’s string is knotted at one wiedth intervals, half inch or centimetre intervals.
Stringen, stringed.
Stript, stripped.
Strongth, strength.
Stubbornth, stubbornness.
Stufft, stuffed.
Stumbelt, stumbled.
Styli, plural of stylus. Writing instruments.
Stylus, an instrument for writing with.
Subjectet, subjected.
Submissivth, submissiveness.
Suffert, suffered.
Suggestet, suggested.
Suitet, suited.
Sunset, Folk word used to describe the colour orange.
Sunstone, sunstone (sólarsteinn in Icelandic) is a mineral referred to in several 13th–14th century Icelandic written sources. “Rauðúlfs þáttr”, mentions the sunstone as a mineral which could locate the sun in an overcast and snowy sky by holding it up and noting where it emitted, reflected or transmitted light.
Superviest, supervised.
Supplyt, supplied.
Suppoest, supposed.
Supportet, supported.
Surpriest, surprised.
Surrount, surrounded.
Survivt, survived.
Suspectet, suspected.
Svertan, pronounced sver + tan, thus Svertan, (svœrtan
Swaddling, term used on Castle for nappies [diapers] and not for wrapping cloths as in its original meaning on Earth.
Swager, a tool, die, or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil or in a press.
Sweetbreads, thymus glands and pancreas.
Sweetent, sweetened.
Sweetings, honey or pounded dried fruit flavoured mixture of oats, flour, butter, nuts, seeds pressed into flat trays, baked and cut up into slices. Every maker’s receipt is different and changes with availability of ingredients.
Sweetroot, parsnip. Pastinaca sativa.
Syskon(en), sibling(s).
Syskonal twins, a Folk phrase equivalent to siberal twins. Siberal twins is a phrase coined here that means non-identical twins. It derives from siblings and so not only includes non identical fraternal twins (boys) and non identical sororal twins (girls) but (obviously) non identical twins of opposite sex too.
Tackt, tacked or harnessed.
Taekt, took.
Talk is a noun in Folk and never used as a verb in any form.
Talkt is not a Folk word, for talk is only ever a noun in Folk. This is an Earth verb with a Folk past tense suffix that some of the newfolk are using.
Tallgrass shoots, bamboo shoots. See tallgrass.
Tallgrass, generic name for various species of bamboo. Bamboo are grasses, Poaceae, and they are in the Bambusoideae sub-family.
Tallies, method of keeping score in games instead of gambling for tokens.
Tapert, tapered.
Tart, tarred.
Tastet, tasted.
Tatties, potatoes, starchroot or possibly waxroot, both are Solanum tuberosum.
Tautth, tautness.
Teacht, taught.
Teast, teased.
Tellies, slang for televisions.
Tellin, a small tasty, often pink coloured, marine bivalve. In a tellin is equivalent to in a nutshell. Limecola balthica.
Telly, slang for television.
Telly, television.
Telt, told.
Tempert, tempered.
Temptet, tempted.
Tendergourd, watermelon. Citrullus lanatus.
Tenderth, tenderness.
Tercel, a male raptor or bird of prey, (the word derives from a third since males raptors are a third smaller than females or possibly because it was believed only one egg in three was male), strictly the term falcon only applies to a female falcon and not to any other raptor.
Terrifyt, terrified.
Tersth, terseness.
Thatcht, thatched.
Thawt, thawed.
The box, vernacular for a television.
The cream of it. Folk expression indicating the best as cream is the best or the top of the milk. It could be as here the funniest, but it is a widely used expression in an almost limitless variety of contexts.
The Fell principle implies touched by disaster, major calamity.
The Little Arder Force, a waterfall only twenty feet high, but fifty strides wide, and of vast flow.
The Smiles, Down Syndrome.
The suits, an English pejorative term used by blue collar workers for those who wear a suit, shirt and tie to work. By implication the term implies someone who is a social parasite, a bureaucrat, creating nothing and who moves paper from one pile to another. Desk jockey and keyboard warrior are similar terms of contempt and opprobrium.
The Way of it, A Folk expression meaning that is how it is according to the Way.
Therus, a star in the Castle sky, pronounced theer + us, (θi:rᴧs).
Thickent, thickened.
Thickth, thickness.
Thief, thieve or steal, also a noun some one who thieves or steals.
Thiefen, thieved or stole.
Thiefing, thieving or stealing.
Thieft, theft.
Thingword, noun.
Thisday, today.
Thisday’s record, a log or diary entry.
Thiseve, this evening.
Thisnight, tonight.
Thornberry or a haw, fruit of the hawthorn tree, Crataegus monogyna.
Thoroughth, thoroughness.
Thrasht, thrashed.
Threatt, threatened.
Threeteen, thirteen.
Threwn, thrown.
Thrillt, thrilled.
Ticet, enticed.
Tient, tined.
Tiern, tired.
Tightly, can mean soundly, properly, well or effectively depending on the context.
Tightth, tightness.
Tioday. pronounced cho (tuh + you) + dee, thus Chodee, (tʃu:di:).
Tiodet, pronounced cho (as above) + debt, thus Chodebt, (tʃoʊ:dɛt). The meaning is derived from little Tioday.
Tipt, tipped.
Tirenth, tiredness.
Tjarn, is the game known as draughts, chequers or checkers depending on the dialectal form you use.
To be leaçen. To have a unique right, a leaçe, to touch one’s loved one without having to ask.
To ratch, to rummage or search for something. A ratch, a look, a search.
Toastt, toasted.
Toewt, towed.
Togetherth, togetherness.
Tokens. The word is used in two ways. First as equivalent to coins of any value, as in “I don’t have any tokens,” meaning I have no coins, or I have no money. Second as absolute units of currency oft described as whole tokens, as in “I have just won five whole tokens, or five whole ones.”
Topal pronounced t + owe + pal, thus Towepal, (toʊpal).
Topwale, the reinforced top edge of the side of a ship, literally the top wale or top plank, equivalent to the gunwale.
Toucht, touched.
Toughth, toughness.
Towin, pronounced T + ow (as in expression of pain) + inn, thus, Towinn, (taʊin).
Trackt, tracked.
Tradet, traded.
Traint, trained.
Trampelt, trampled.
Transportet, transported.
Trapt, trapped.
Trebuchet, a siege engine used in the Middle Ages to attack castles and fortified towns.
Trebuchet, a type of siege engine.
Trett, treated, past tense of treat, pronounced tret, trɛt.
Treyday, pronounced Tray + dee, thus Traydee, (treidi:).
Triffic, adolescent slang, terrific, cool, fashionable.
Trimt, trimmed.
Tript, tripped.
Troubelt, troubled.
Trustet, trusted.
Tryt, tried.
Tuckt, tucked.
Turnt, turned.
Tuyere, pronounced tweer, (twiər).
Tvåday, pronounced Tvor + dee, thus Tvordee, (tvɔd:i:).
Twixt, betwixt or between
Two years over, two years ago.
Tyer, one who ties. An irregular Folk form which it is said possibly arose to distinguish the word from tier, as in one of several or many levels, but none know for certain.
Uäste, a name, pronounced oo + est (as in test), (u:ɛst).
Uernith pronounced oo + air + nith, thus Ooairnith, (u:ɛərniθ).
Uest, used.
Unaccountet, unaccounted.
Unagreeän, without agreement, unmarried.
Unagreen, a person with no agreän, one who is unmarried. The Folk use the words, maider and maidar for such women and men respectively. Neither word indicates whether they have been married before or not.
Unarmt, unarmed.
Unbirtht, unborn. Verb and noun.
Unchangt, unchanged.
Uncommittet, uncommitted.
Uncompostet, uncomposted.
Unconsciousth, unconsciousness.
Uncovert, uncovered.
Undersiezt, undersized.
Understandt, understood.
Undesiert, undesired.
Undoen, undone.
Undoubtet, undoubted.
Undresst, undressed.
Undyen, undyed.
Unexplort, unexplored.
Unfillett, unfilleted.
Unfinisht, unfinished.
Unhappith, unhappiness.
Unharvestet, unharvested.
Unhelpfulth, unhelpfulness.
Unintendet, in this context a woman without a man whom she intends to marry, equivalent to unengaged, the term strictly may apply equally to a man but is rarely used thus.
Unintendet, unintended.
Uninterestet, uninterested.
Units of capacity are more or less equivalent to imperial units with a little more than five Earth fluid ounces to the Castle gill.
Unkindths, unkindnesses.
Unlimitet, unlimited.
Unloadet, unloaded.
Unmarryt, unmarried.
Unpeelt, unpeeled.
Unplacet, unplaced.
Unpleasantth, unpleasantness.
Unrelatet, unrelated.
Unripent, unripened.
Unscaetht, unscathed
Unsettelt, unsettled.
Unsolicitet, unsolicited.
Unspaeken, unspoken.
Untryt, untried.
Unuest, unused.
Unwillingth, unwillingness.
Upturnt, upturned or upside down.
Usename, an alternative name often with no obvious connection to the name it is used for.
Vaire or vair, glider or squirrel fur.
Valuet, valued.
Varroa, Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite of honey bees. Widespread on Earth, absent on Castle.
Varyt, varied.
Vaucht, usually implied as a result of a misuse of a large imbalance of social standing or maturity, i.e. power. Nearest English equivalent is coercion. Vɐχt. A serious offence under the Way.
Verst, versed.
Vext, vexed.
Vilar, pronounced v + eye + lar, thus Veyelar, (vailar).
Violet leaf, violet flower flavoured watercress leaf in light batter cooked on the spot, equivalent to a tempura.
Volunteert, volunteered.
Von pronounced von, thus von, (vɒn).
Waggonen, waggoned.
Waitet, waited.
Walkt, walked.
Want(s), only ever used as a noun in Folk. A want is a need, something missing or lacking or a deficiency.
Wantonth, wantonness.
Wardth, wardship or custody.
Warmt, warmed.
Warnt, warned.
Warwolf, Warwolf a trebuchet used to reduce Stirling castle in 1304. Warwolf accurately hurled missiles weighing as much as one hundred and fifty kilograms.
Washt, washed.
Wasserschloß, a moated castle. A word of Germanic origins.
Wastet, wasted.
Watcht, watched.
Water over one’s head, to be out of one’s depth.
Waternut, water chestnuts, Eleocharis dulcis.
Waterweed, a ubiquitous spicy leafy vegetable which grows in fresh water and is unique to Castle. The leaves have the texture of Cavolo nero, black leaf kail, and the taste is reminiscent of rocket or watercress.
Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1814.
Waxroots, waxy potatoes, Solanum tuberosum. Floury potatoes are usually referred to as starchroots, though the distinction is neither absolute nor strictly adhered to.
Waxt, waxed.
Weakth, weakness.
Weäl, well being. Pronounced wi:al.
Weäl, wellbeing.
Weälgry, desperate for well being or a better life.
Weälth, an abstract noun, that which brings or provides weäl, it is pronounced we +al (hard a as in as) + th, (wi:alð).
Weän, a young child who has been weaned, in theory any way, off the breast. Weän(s) pronounced wee + ann(s), wi:an(z).
Weanhood, early childhood, toddlerhood.
Weant, weaned.
Wearn, worn.
Weaven, woven.
Weepith, weepiness. or tearfulness
Weighen, weighed.
Weighten, weighted. A weighten line, a plumb bob.
Weighth, heaviness or weight, pronounced way + th, (weiθ).
Well come, welcome.
What cho, English slang for what do you.
Wheaten paper, an edible wrapper somewhat thicker than rice paper. Oft cereals other than wheat are used, but it is still referred to as wheaten paper.
Wheel pronounced hwi:l.
Whilst times, Folk construction equivalent to in the meantime or in the meanwhile.
Whilth, a time interval, duration. Also distance expressed as the duration to cover it, pronounced wh + isle + th, (hwailθ).
Whin, Ulex europaeus is the most widespread species on Castle but there are many. Whin is a usually yellow flowered thorny shrub, though there are red flowered varieties. It is roller crushed and chopped as animal feed, green shoots can be over rich so it is mixed with chopped straw.
Whispert, whispered.
Whiteleaf, a cabbage with a pale almost white centre but dark green outer leafs. Cultivars of Brassica oleracea.
Wickt, wicked. Not a Folk word, but becoming one and wickt has a Folk adjectival form which suits the way Folk is spoken.
Widowert, widowered.
Widowt, widowed.
Wiedth, width. Adj. Or a measure of a nominal finger’s width, ca. half an inch, a centimetre. Pronounced wide + th, (waidθ).
Wiept, wiped.
Wildth, wildness.
Will(s) is used as equivalent to want(s) or wish(es).
Willen, willed as in desired or wished.
William I, William the conqueror. c. 1028 – 9 September 1087.
Willingth, willingness.
Wilten, wilted.
Wincht, winched.
Wind washer. A slow speed, wind powered, set of rotating paddles that are equipped with brushes in a wide shallow barrel that is used to wash vegetables. The barrel is filled with a mix of water and vegetables, usually roots with soil on. Roots as harvested are stored with soil on because they keep better than when washed. The roots are only washed when required.
Windbraek, windbreak.
Winnowt, winnowed.
Winter-elk, Megaloceros giganteus known variously as Irish elk, giant deer and Irish giant deer. Not a true elk and large Castle specimens can reach 1000 weights [2200pounds]. Some of the Folk refer to them as giant elk.
Winteroot, swede, Swedish turnips or rutabaga. Originally winter root. Brassica napus, napobrassica group.
Wisht, wished.
Wistfulth, wistfulness.
Woman’s friend, Folk expression for an artificial penis, usually turned from wood, though some are made of glass or pottery.
Womanhood, womanliness.
Wondert, wondered.
Woon, wooed. Historically the word was wooën, but usage altered the pronunciation and subsequently the spelling.
Workt, worked.
Workword, verb.
Worryt, worried.
Wrapt, wrapped.
Wrieten, wrote.
Yaarle, a highly figured, rare and expensive wood.
Yance ower, literally, Once over, a dialectal version of Once upon a time.
Yanday, pronounced Yan + dee, thus Yandee, (jandi:).
Yans, ones. English dialectal usage.
Yclept, named or called as in English. Unlike in modern English yclept is a word in common usage in Folk though the word is never used in connection with persons only with animals and places, though there are other less common usages.
Year elevens, fifteen and sixteen year olds, last year of compulsory education in the U.K..
Yellow sour, a hardy lemon like citrus fruit.
Yellowroot, dock root. Rumex obtusifolius. Leaves are eaten in small quantities and the dried seeds are used as a spice.
Yinjærik, pronounced Yin + yay + rik, (jinjeirik).
Ynys Môn, the isle of Anglesey.
Yoken, yokes.
Yumalle, a name, pronounced You + mar + lay, (ju:marlei).

A LIST OF EXPRESSIONS, MOSTLY FOLK BUT NOT ALL AND THEIR MEANINGS
ALSO THERE ARE SOME ANCILLIARY EXPLANATIONS

A tramp on the knock, English dialectal colloquial expression signifying a prostitute who works the streets and is at the time actively touting for trade.
Adjectives used as adverbs, most of the Folk oft uses adjectives as adverbs. This is not regarded as poor grammar, but as a matter of choice, and the practice is becoming more common especially with younger Folk.
Adwindling. The day’s adwindling (or awaning), Folk expressions meaning the time is getting on.
All right, an English vernacular version of plumb in Folk meaning someone who is approved of. An expression indicating an open person, one who presents their real self to others, one with nothing devious that is hidden.
As spaken by babes and weäns, very old Folk expression equivalent to, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. A babe is a child still being breast fed and a weän is a young child who has been weaned, in theory any way, off the breast. Weäns pronounced wee + anns, (wi:anz).
At the far end of it, a Folk expression equivalent to in the long run or the hidden truth of a situation not generally known.
Awaning. The day’s awaning (or adwindling), Folk expressions meaning the time is getting on.
Better to marry than to burn. The Bible, 1 Corinthians 7:9.
Bicycle. It must be like riding a bicycle is an old expression that is rarely quoted in full because it is widely implicitly known. The rest of it says something along the lines of, once you have mastered the skill no matter how long it is since you last rode a bicycle the skill is still there to draw on.
Folk usage generally defaults to female third person singular and where there is no reason to differ refers to e.g. Judith and Storm not Storm and Judith. There are exceptions, most notably due to rank, a Master craftsman and his female apprentice would be referred to in that order. Reversal of this complex set of conventions would be seen as either a compliment or an insult depending on the exact circumstances.
Furless task, a futile task as is one for one wearing no furs crafting in the open in extreme calt. Equivalent to a fruitless or bootless task in English.
Having a seam side, a Folk expression literally referring to the reverse side of a garment or piece of fabric. The poorer side. As used thus the expression indicates everything has its price or some thing is a mixed blessing. Unlike the English expression ‘the seamy side’ the Folk expression has no implication of corruption or unwholesomeness.
How do you throw? A Folk expression asking if you are left or right handed.
How far over his head the water is, Folk expression equivalent to how far out of his depth he is.
Leaving fleetfoot behind, a Folk expression equivalent to being rushed of one’s feet. Fleetfoot are a species of deer which as their name suggests are capable of extreme speed.
Mug of bile, Folk expression equivalent to a poisoned chalice.
Rein in, Folk expression meaning, go easy or back off.
Shall / will. There is a distinct difference in Folk between using shall and will. In normal usage first person nouns and pronouns use shall and should, and second and third person nouns and pronouns use will and would. In the imperative the situation is reversed. This difference also applies to interrogative situations too.
Taking the measure of, a Folk expression equivalent to weighing up.
That matter’s naught in regard to it. Folk expression equivalent to ‘That is beside the point.’
The cream of the milk, oft just ‘the cream of it’, Folk expression indicating the best.
The Fell principle is a wry Folk expression for major calamity. It implies if anything can go wrong it will and if there are further opportunities for things to become worse then they will. The reference is to the Fell Year when disaster kept following disaster for several years which nearly wiped the Folk out. Equivalents in English are Murphy’s Law and Finagal’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law both of which can be stated as, “The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum.”
The Riot Act of 1714 was an act of Parliament in Great Britain that authorised local authorities to declare any group of twelve or more people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action. It was put into effect by reading it aloud to whomever the authorities wished to disperse. The expression ‘to read the riot act’ is still used in an informal sense indicating extreme anger vociferously expressed. For example one child may ask another, “Was you mum ok when you got in late last night?” The reply might be, “Ok‽ She went mental and read the riot act.” The act was repealed in 1967.
The Way of it, a Folk expression meaning that is how it is according to the Way.
To give oneself to Castle, to commit suicide, often by simply walking away and being overtaken by hypothermia in the night.
To have water over one’s head, Folk usage equivalent to being out of one’s depth.
To pass the matter over, to put it in the past, the matter being now closed.
To take issue with, Folk expression indicating to elevate a matter from the verbal to the physical. To take final issue with is to make something a killing matter.
To the far end of it, to the limit, totally.
Water down the Arder, Folk expression equivalent to Water under the bridge. It indicates something that has passed and is over and done with.
Where in the day. Folk expression indicating the time of day. Where in the day are we is equivalent to, What is the time? or What time is it?
Will / shall. See shall / will.