|
|
Post by mistrali on Oct 21, 2020 21:01:27 GMT 10
Title: Summer Dusk
Rating: G
Prompt: Butterfly
Words: 13
Summary: The seven wonders of Kypriang (I)
Notes: It’s my headcanon that the Copper Isles’ proper name is Kypriang. And these are inspired by haiku, so forgive the... unorthodox punctuation.
Jerykun, summer dusk: sunset butterflies spiral homeward in a fuschia-and-amber cloud.
|
|
|
|
Post by devilinthedetails on Oct 22, 2020 2:24:17 GMT 10
I can definitely see the haiku inspiration. Such poetic language and beautiful imagery to create meaning!
|
|
|
|
Post by Seek on Oct 22, 2020 2:30:27 GMT 10
The imagery for this one is beautiful and I love it. Also, you've sold me on the proper name being Kypriang!
|
|
|
|
Post by mistrali on Oct 22, 2020 3:00:21 GMT 10
Thanks to both! Seek I actually thought that was canon, given that their language is called Kyprish, but no, ‘Kyprish’ just seems to be a reference to Kyprioth. Which, considering we don’t have Cyprus, Sumerian and Greek in Tortallverse to give us ‘copper’, would seem to mean that ‘copper’ came from Kypr-(ioth) (and therefore from the Isles). Unless Kyprioth’s own name is an Eastern Common corruption of whatever his original name was in Kyprish. Maybe Mithros and the Goddess forced him to use ‘Kyprioth’ instead of ‘Trickster’. Or maybe he has hundreds of names and he took a shine to the name Kyprioth, or it had some etymological relation to the word ‘crow’ in Kyprish. /shrug |
|
|
|
Post by Seek on Oct 22, 2020 3:16:20 GMT 10
Thanks to both! Seek I actually thought that was canon, given that their language is called Kyprish, but no, ‘Kyprish’ just seems to be a reference to Kyprioth. Which, considering we don’t have Cyprus, Sumerian and Greek in Tortallverse to give us ‘copper’, would seem to mean that ‘copper’ came from Kypr-(ioth) (and therefore from the Isles). Unless Kyprioth’s own name is an Eastern Common corruption of whatever his original name was in Kyprish. Maybe Mithros and the Goddess forced him to use ‘Kyprioth’ instead of ‘Trickster’. Or maybe he has hundreds of names and he took a shine to the name Kyprioth, or it had some etymological relation to the word ‘crow’ in Kyprish. /shrug Likely, that! Kyprish seems to have a close relation to Bahasa Indonesia (which makes sense, given that the Copper Isles - sorry, Kypriang  - have a heavy Indonesia influence), and 'Kyprioth' alomost sounds like it would be a luarin corruption/loanword of whatever the Kyprish word would be. |
|
- have a heavy Indonesia influence), and 'Kyprioth' alomost sounds like it would be a luarin corruption/loanword of whatever the Kyprish word would be. 