Stormlight Archive/glossary

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This is a list of all topics mentioned or seen in The Stormlight Archive.

AEdit

From OathbringerEdit

aboshi
Shin honorific for a divinity[1]
Adoda
root word of Adolins name, meaning 'light'[1] Adodal and Adodan were suggestions from Ishal
afah'liki
Unkalaki for spren?[2]
ali'i'kamura
Unkalaki for a particular spren?[2]
ana'kai
Unkalaki cuss?[3]
aven begah
something Ahu says to Dalinar[4]

CEdit

From OathbringerEdit

chortana
pejorative for woman?[5]
cremhole
cuss for mouth[6]

DEdit

drynets
a sailors curse word[7]
duelmaster
the official at a duel?
dunnard
insult relating to dun spheres?[8][9]

From OathbringerEdit

deevy
word meaning cool - 40, 117, 120
disclike animals
some kind of crab/crustacean[1]

GEdit

gancho
gloombringer
glories within
a Shin curse [10][11]
gon
greenvine
A pejorative for raw recruits.[12]

From OathbringerEdit

glyphic radicals
I-2

HEdit

Hapron Street
the street imagined by the beggar in Kasitor[13]
heterochromatic
should probably be an external redirect
highjudge
A lighteyed woman? who acts as kind of a referee and moderator at official duels. Only her word counts in the arena.[14] She begins and ends a duel.[15]
Herdies
That's what Lopen calls the slaves, bridgemen and such people[16]
holetental
"Is of the holetental. For him only," Rock told the others about Kaladin's skills[17] Possibly refers to the Knights Radiant.

From OathbringerEdit

Haravingian
a type of sword in Feverstone Keep[18]
Highmarshal
title

IEdit

Parap-shenesh-idi
glyphs used to spell Parshendi in the Stormwarden's script[19]

JEdit

jesel
day
jesesach
date
jesesan
date
jeseses
date

KEdit

kukori
Presumably a Shin word (meaning yet unknown). Szeth used it once. He said, "You speak like a kukori."[10]

LEdit

lakefish
any fish from the Purelake[12]
lavis polyp
ledgerworm

MEdit

mancha
herdazian greeting[12][20]
moonheight

From OathbringerEdit

mafah'liki
Unkalaki word
moolie
mossing
using firemoss-redirect to firemoss?[21]

NEdit

nanha
A polite title used in front of the name of a married darkeyed woman, like "Mrs." in English. In this case, the word should be capitalized. It appeared several times in Kaladin's flashback chapter "The Butcher".[22] Elhokar also used "nanha" to call Lopen's mother.[23]
(Elhokar calls Lopen's mother 'nanha' but I don't think it's her name (even she's Herdazian and not Alethi): see Alethi and there: Nanha. ** Meg (talk) 20:16, 15 April 2014 (UTC) **)
Nar street
[24] Need to actually add info to redirect target

From OathbringerEdit

naco
Nar
Alethi name suffix meaning "like unto"[25]

PEdit

prestorm

From OathbringerEdit

penhito
121
proto-Thaylo-Vorin
I-2
Passion of Mercy
singer clemency[26]

QEdit

; quq: trailing syllable in Tigzikk's name[27]

REdit

Rener's miracle a highstorm put out a fire[28]
researchpair
riddens

From OathbringerEdit

Rekher
glyph[25]
rocksplitter
makework - 46

SEdit

shalashian
shellheads
skullbearer
skullplate
A carapace covering on the head of Warform singers.
stormblessings
stormcoat
stormlands
stormleavings
stormpause
stormshield
stormshutter
stormtop
stormwagon
heavy sheltered wagons
stormwall
change redirect to subsection and bold?
Stormwarden
People who predict the weather
stormwarden script
featured on some art
stormward
eastward
Stonewalker
A Shin curse on those that walk on stone.[29] Is commonly used by Szeth to merely refer to those who are not Shin.

From OathbringerEdit

stormwood
driftwood from highstorms[30]
Shin Thoroughbreds
[31]

TEdit

tana
part of the Unkalaki term "tana'kai"? "is like a king, but more"[20][32][33]
Tet
A Veden honorific denoting "second son"
trailman
"Trailman's flute" [34]

From OathbringerEdit

tidereader
a mystic oracle in Iri[35]
tuanalikina
Unkalaki phrase - fourth son or younger[12][2]
Thaylen high admiral
[36]

UEdit

From OathbringerEdit

Uma'ami tukuma mafah'liki
Unkalaki phrase of respect towards spren[2]

VEdit

Vathahese
Vathah's grunts, Shallan learned "to interpret those, which was essential to speaking Vathahese."[37]
vesture?
virture
vizier
a minister of Azir, wikipedia: Vizier
vizierate
the ruling class of Azir -- make sure word is in section and bold?

From OathbringerEdit

Venar
someone Shallan makes up in retort to Adolin[38] redirect to shallan and mention in page?
Viim cachi eko
phrase said by Evi[39]

WEdit

warleader
warpair
winehouse
lighteyes wine bar

From OathbringerEdit

Word of Passion
[40]

YEdit

From OathbringerEdit

Yezier princess

NotesEdit

  1. a b c Oathbringer chapter 106#
  2. a b c d Oathbringer chapter 37#
  3. Oathbringer chapter 18#
  4. Oathbringer chapter 88#
  5. Oathbringer chapter 121#
  6. Oathbringer chapter 40#
  7. Words of Radiance chapter 31#
  8. Words of Radiance chapter 47#
  9. Words of Radiance chapter 53#
  10. a b The Way of Kings interlude I-6#
  11. Words of Radiance interlude I-10#
  12. a b c d Words of Radiance chapter 12#
  13. The Way of Kings interlude I-5#
  14. Words of Radiance chapter 56#
  15. The Way of Kings chapter 58#
  16. The Way of Kings chapter 59#
  17. The Way of Kings chapter 73#
  18. Oathbringer chapter 56#
  19. Words of Radiance chapter 52#
  20. a b Words of Radiance chapter 46#
  21. Oathbringer chapter 41#
  22. The Way of Kings chapter 25#
  23. Words of Radiance chapter 87#
  24. Words of Radiance chapter 43#
  25. a b Oathbringer chapter 52#
  26. Oathbringer chapter 122#
  27. The Way of Kings interlude I-9#
  28. Words of Radiance interlude I-12#
  29. The Way of Kings prologue#
  30. Oathbringer interlude I-1#
  31. Oathbringer chapter 10#
  32. Words of Radiance chapter 45#
  33. Words of Radiance chapter 61#
  34. The Way of Kings chapter 57#
  35. Oathbringer chapter 16#
  36. Oathbringer chapter 107#
  37. Words of Radiance chapter 48#
  38. Oathbringer chapter 21#
  39. Oathbringer chapter 66#
  40. Oathbringer chapter 120#
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