Learn Mando'a

This covers names I put together because my brain is wierd. Akalika: Short for "akaan'uliik," meaning lion or someone always in the thickest of the fight. Ani'kad: "Total Sword." Anikyr: "Total End." One with the power to stop everything dead. Beskad: Literally beskar saber, but if you add a beten y...

OK, now that we've covered the source material, here's a variety of Mando'a words (or modified, usually shortened versions thereof) that I thought would make great names. Mostly a resource for fanfiction, hopefully material for conversation, and a means to scratch my inner itch. (Guilty grin.) M for...

Maybe it's just because I love kids, or because I've spent too much time scrolling through baby name websites trying to name the characters in my stories, but for whatever reason I'm super excited about this subject and wanted to share my thoughts and ideas. Like any good Mando I'm going to start wi...

HI! I know I'm late to the party, but I did remember Parja, Fi's wife in the books, being described as having red beads in her braids, which fell below her helmet. So they do have concepts of personal ornamentation, but like Vlet said, practicality probably overrides all else. I can't imagine Mandos...

Thanks! I've seen new words appear on Mandocreator, but I had no idea they had a Discord where they discussed the making of them. I'll have to look into that a bit more.

Thanks!

27. At cin’runi dal’ika, ru’haat’miit riduur be Josevh, kurshok-borarur be bui’tsad be Daved. Cin’runi dal’ika’gai Meri. 28. Miitra’jorur slanar at Meri bal ru’sirbur, “Jate tuur, gar megin cuy laamyc’la ru’riye’miit’la! Al’Alor ti gar.” You said David, Joseph, and Mary were nearly unrecognizable. ...

El Elyon ner kot bal dral: bal Kaysh gotal'u ner yust ani.

God is my strength and power: and He makes my way perfect.

--2 Samuel 22:33

Hey, I had no idea this thread was a thing, but I did a Mando translation of Psalm 91 I titled Laar Sheketa Solus. It's on this website if anyone wants to take a look or offer critique.
https://forum.mandoa.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=294

Akaan'oya devaabi de verde ruusari bat vaabi ori'jatne ash'ade o'r mayen bat an. "The martial way of life practiced by warriors is based on excelling others in anything and everything." --Miyamoto Musashi

Meg'ad vaabi dul'mirsh bora, dinu dul'mirsh skraan.

He who does a half-putz job, gets a half-putz dinner.

So basically Augest is trying to ask how do we make a noun out of a verb or adjective we may have that has no corresponding noun, like "beauty" from "beautiful," and Tra'nau is saying you might not need to if you give a degree of that adjective? Like you don't have to say "gentleness" if "more gentl...

I agree that a lot of word meaning can easily be derived from context. We do it all the time in the real world, especially English. We have shot, the firing of a weapon; shot, as in you fired the weapon at something(one); shot, the stuff you fire out of the weapon; and shot, the stuff you put in a g...

I agree with all of Adi'karta's suggestions in the original post. A foreword would provide a sense of meaning and direction to the book. It's impossible to study language without learning about the culture and forming an idea of that culture's mindset, especially as many Mando'a phrases and idioms m...

After some thought, I figure "to weaken" could be expressed a few different ways. We could say nu'kotir, no strength. We could say hibi'kotir, take strength. Or cha'kotir, steal strength. As for "weakness" itself, we could form a noun out of any of those words, but . . . Akaanir+olar. Akaan'olar. We...

Also this would make a great thread to compile all the tactical language we can find for a quick reference/study guide type of thing.

I've been over to the Mandocreator dictionary, and while we do have some war-related words like traat'aliit "squad", taabir "to march," ram'ser "sniper, marksman," a few different words for forts and fortifications, and so on, I think we're missing some crucial words, or at least I can't find them. ...

On gayi'kartay, I think that works well. For yellow, however, I'd have to say "only alive" means something other than what you went for. Remember, symbolically, yellow was painted on armor to indicate shereshoy, and is therefore unlikely to be a term of derision. I am partial to tra'sal for orange,...

I know I'm late to this one, but how's this:

Nephew: brother's son, "vod'ad."

Grandson: son's son, "ad'ad."

Yes, I know Mando'a is gender neutral, I'm using masculine gender in the English to keep it all uniform.

I thought ba in ba'buir and ba'vodu indicated going a generation back (father of my parent, vod of my parent). So great-great-great-grandparent ends up being ba'ba'ba'buir. . .

I'd love to know if anyone's constructed a word for cousin or nephew/niece.