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; [[Alezarv]]: presumably a Knight Radiant{{ref|b|sa1|e|39}}

; [[Askarki]]: {{quote|The Emuli are a certain tribe of the Askarki people, and they're ethnically Makabaki - dark-skinned, like myself. Their kingdom borders my own, and I visited there many times in my youth.|[[Sigzil]]{{ref|b|sa1|c|55}}|}}

; Attractors: type of fabrial

== B ==

; Battah: Vorin name of the Herald [[Battar]]

; Behardan: maybe [[Nohadon]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|47}}

; [[blackrock]]: a form of stone?{{ref|b|sa2|c|39}}

; [[Breakneck]]: A [[Vorin]] game using stones{{ref|b|sa1|c|25}}{{ref|b|sa1|i|6}}

; brushpen:

; causal betrothal: a relaxed? betrothal in Vorin cultures

; [[chouta]]: [[Herdazian]] food{{ref|b|sa2|c|18}}

; citylord: a lighteyes in charge of a city (mayor)

; clearchip & clearmark: currency

; [[crem]]:

:; crembrick: bricks made from crem

:; cremstone: stone made from crem

:; cremwater: water with crem in it

; darkborn:

; death rattles: caused by [[Moelach]]?

; decayform:

; [[dreamstorm]]: horse suggested to [[Kaladin]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|25}}

; drynets: a sailors curse word{{ref|b|sa2|c|31}}

; duelmaster:

; dullform:

; dunnard: insult relating to dun spheres?{{ref|b|sa2|c|47}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|53}}

== E ==

; [[Eighty's War]]: between [[Emul]] and [[Tukar]], started six years ago{{ref|b|sa2|i|14}}

; [[Enthir]]: "a square, stringed instrument"{{ref|b|sa1|epilogue}}; [[Wit]] owned one

== F ==

; femalen: [[Parshendi]] mate-pairs

; firemark:

; [[Firestorm]]: [[Gavilar]]'s blade{{ref|b|sa2|art}}

; [[flamestance]]:

; [[Flangria]]: A type of soulcast meat{{ref|b|sa2|c|46}}

; forms:

; gancho:

; [[gerontarch]]: "A [[Selay]] gerontarch?" [[Szeth]] had to kill one. {{ref|b|sa1|i|6}}

; gloombringer:

; gon:

; gravitationspren & gravityspren:

; [[gtet]]: [[Thaylen]] sword{{ref|b|sa2|i|3}}

; Hapron Street: the street imagined by the beggar in [[Kasitor]]{{ref|b|sa1|i|5}}

; hatredspren: spren of [[Odium]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|24}}

; [[havah]]: [[Vorin]] dress{{ref|b|sa2|c|1}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|37}}

;heterochromatic:

;highjudge:

; [[highspren]]: A type of sentient spren attracted to those who follow the law.

; hogshide: material used in boots

; [[honu]]: a type of [[lavis]] grain liquor{{ref|b|sa2|c|81}}

; Herdies: That's what [[Lopen]] calls the slaves, bridgemen and such people{{ref|b|sa1|c|59}}

; holetental: "Is of the holetental. For him only," [[Rock]] told the others about [[Kaladin]]'s skills{{ref|b|sa1|c|73}}

; [[Honored Dead]]: a posthumous accolade{{ref|b|sa2|i|2}}

; Parap-shenesh-idi: glyphs used to spell [[Parshendi]] in the Stormwarden's script{{ref|b|sa2|c|52}}

; [[ironstance]]:{{ref|b|sa2|c|14}}

;jasnagynistic:

; Jeksonofnone: A bird in a menagerie [[Shallan]] visits{{ref|b|sa2|c|45}}

; jesel: day

; jesesach: date

; jesesan: date

; jeseses: date

; Jezerezeh: Vorin name for [[Jezrien]]

; [[kabers]]: cardgame [[Yalb]] played with some guards in Kharbranth{{ref|b|sa1|c|8}}

; [[kadasix]]: presumably Emuli gods, "If the Prime Kadasix may provide, [[Baxil]] thought"{{ref|b|sa1|i|7}}

; [[Kammar]]: An ancient fighting stance designed to defeat enemies without harming them{{ref|b|sa1|i|1}}

; [[King's Boon]]: a prize at a particularly epic duel?

; [[King's Testers]]: scholars who test [[Taravangian]] for intelligence{{ref|b|sa2|i|14}}

; Laial: a glyph used by [[Sebarial]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|40}}

; [[lait]]: an outcropping of stone which protects an area from the brunt of a [[highstorm]]

; lakefish: any fish from the [[Purelake]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|12}}

; [[Last Legion]]: A historical army of the [[Parshendi]]{{ref|b|sa2|i|4}}

; lastclap: catching a shardblade between hands{{ref|b|sa2|c|44}}

; [[lavis]]: a cereal crop

:; lavis polyp

; ledgerworm:

;[[liespren]]:

; Lifebrother: mentioned by [[Taravangian]], a [[vorin]] god {{ref|b|sa1|c|71}}

; [[Lightday]]: The end of the [[Weeping]]s? {{ref|b|sa1|c|44}}

; [[Maakian]]: Follower of a religion {{ref|b|sa1|c|48}}

; [[Mabrow]]: Mabrow Pigherder, a citizen of Hearthstone {{ref|b|sa1|c|37}}

; malen: [[Parshendi]] gender{{ref|b|sa2|i|1}}

; mancha: [[herdazian]] greeting{{ref|b|sa2|c|12}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|46}}

; [[Mari's Two Lovers]]: A song sung by members of [[Bridge Four]]{{ref|b|sa1|c|27}}

; mateform:

; [[Mederia]]: Rosharan scholar which [[Shallan]] disapproves of{{ref|b|sa1|c|29}}

; mediationform:

; [[michim]]: a guessing game{{ref|b|sa2|c|71}}

; middlefest: celebration in the middle of the Weeping{{ref|b|sa2|c|45}}

; midpeace:

; moonheight:

; moonset:

; nanha: [[Lopen]]'s mother

::(Elhokar calls Lopen's mother 'nanha' but I don't think it's her name (even she's Herdazian and not Alethi): see http://coppermind.net/wiki/Alethi and there: Nanha. ** [[User:Meg|Meg]] ([[User talk:Meg|talk]]) 20:16, 15 April 2014 (UTC) **)

; Nar street: {{ref|b|sa2|c|43}}

; nightform:

; nimbleform:

; Pailiah: The Vorin name of the Herald [[Paliah]] some{{ref|b|sa2|c|14}}, Pali {{ref|b|sa2|i|14}}

; parap: glyph

; polestone: The ten gemstones that are used in Surgebinding and Soulcasting

; prestorm:

; pricity:

; Prime Aqasix: title of [[Azir]] ruler{{ref|b|sa2|i|9}}

; [[Proving Day]]: A historic event relating to the [[Herald]]s{{ref|b|sa1|c|5}}

; quq: trailing syllable in [[Tigzikk]]'s name{{ref|b|sa1|i|9}}

; researchpair:

; reverser: [[Fabrial]]

;[[Rhythms]]: [[Parshendi]] thing

; riddens:

;[[Right of Challenge]]:

;[[Right of Travel]]:

;[[Right to Learn]]: a mandate by the [[Herald]]s so that darkeyes can learn trades

; [[Ring]]: group that sent [[Wyndle]]{{ref|b|sa2|i|9}}

; [[Sakisa]]: one of [[Balat Davar]]'s [[axehound]]s{{ref|b|sa2|c|48}}

; Santhid spren

; sebes: first glyph of [[Sebarial]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|40}}

; [[shadowdays]]:

;shalashian

;shamanate

;[[shamespren]]:

;shardhammer:

;shash:

;shellheads

; shenesh: middle glyph of Parshendi{{ref|b|sa2|c|52}}

; [[Sja-anat]]: {{ref|b|sa2|c|4}}

;skullbearer:

;skullplate:

;[[Sons of Honor]]: Group {{ref|b|sa2|c|88}}

;[[Spray]]: Horse which [[Kaladin]] learnt to ride{{ref|b|sa2|c|25}}

; stonewalker: shin curse on non-shin

; stormblessings:

; stormcoat:

; stormform:

; stormlands:

; stormleavings:

; stormpause:

; stormshield:

; stormshutter:

; [[stormspren]]:

; stormtop:

; stormwagon:

; stormwall:

;[[Stormwarden]]: People who predict the weather

;[[stormwarden script]]: featured on some art

; stormward:

; stormwater:

; symbolhead:

; [[Salas]]: the smallest and dimmest moon of Roshar, violet in color {{ref|b|sa1|c|2}}

; [[shadowdays]]: time "years before the Last Desolation" {{ref|b|sa1|c|3}}, "The Desolations had happened during the near-mythical shadowdays" {{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}, "So far as Dalinar understood, they had few pieces of art or writing dating from the shadowdays, The Way of Kings being one of the oldest, and the only complete text. And even it had survived only in translation; they had no copies in the original tongue." {{ref|b|sa1|c|28}}, Derethil was a king during the shadowdays {{ref|b|sa1|c|57}}

; [[Shardblade]]: A sword which cuts through stone and souls.

; [[Shardplate]]: Armour used by [[Shardbearer]]s

; Slickrock: {{ref|b|sa1|c|1}}9

; [[Smokestance]]: A sword fighting style{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}

; Stonewalker: A [[Shin]] curse on those that walk on stone.{{ref|b|sa1|prologue}}

; [[Takama]]: A traditional, skirt-like garment.{{ref|b|sa2|c|38}} Aladar wears one.{{ref|b|sa2|c|8}} Amaram's guards also wear them.{{ref|b|sa2|c|52}}

; Talat: Possibly a reference to Talenel? Part of the curse "Talat's hand" used by Shallan.{{ref|b|sa2|c|54}}

; tana: part of the Unkalaki term "tana'kai"? "is like a king, but more"{{ref|b|sa2|c|46}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|45}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|61}}

; tet: A Veden honorific denoting "second son"

; toparchy:

; Turi: nickname for [[Sebarial]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|40}}

; tyvnk: A Thaylen word meaning "sullen", the name given by Rysn to her pot of grass{{ref|b|sa2|i|3}}

; [[takama]]: skirtlike garment {{ref|b|sa1|c|25}} {{ref|b|sa1|c|54}}

; Ten Deaths: something mentioned by{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}

; tenner: nickname for tenth dahn{{ref|b|sa2|c|2}}

; trailman: "[[Trailman's flute]]" {{ref|b|sa1|c|57}}

; [[Truthless]]: A curse placed on [[Shin]]

; Tyvnk: means sullen, [[Rysn]]'s grass{{ref|b|sa2|i|3}}

; ulatu: a garment worn by [[Lin Davar]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|19}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|48}}

; Princess Unulukuak’kina’autu’atai: Alias used by [[Shallan]]{{ref|b|sa2|c|28}}

; Vargo: nickname for [[Taravangian]]{{ref|b|sa2|i|14}}

; vathahese: grunts relating to [[Zen]]-daughter-[[Vath]]

; vesture:

; [[vinestance]]: a stance with defensive footing{{ref|b|sa2|c|57}}

; virture:

; [[vizier]]: a minister of [[Azir]], [[wikipedia: Vizier]]

; [[vizierate]]: the ruling class of [[Azir]]

; [[voidspren]]:

; [[wastescum skirmishes]]: a conflict in the north of [[Alethkar]]?{{ref|b|sa1|6|16}}

; [[Windstance]]: A sword fighting style preferred by [[Dalinar]]{{ref|b|sa1|c|19}}

; warcamp:

; warform:

; warleader:

; warpair:

; [[weevilwax]]: substance used to seal things{{ref|b|sa2|prologue}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|47}}{{ref|b|sa2|c|88}}

; windblades: geographic feature of Kholinar

; winehouse: lighteyes wine bar

; workform:

; Yaezir: The name given to the Herald Jezrien in [[Azir]]{{ref|b|sa2|i|9}}

; [[Ysperist]]: followers of a religion.{{ref|b|sa1|c|48}}

; [[yu-nerig]]: {{ref|b|sa2|c|49}}

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