The Jack Vance Lexicon: The coined words of Jack Vance: from abiloid to zygage by Jack Vance & Dan Temianka

Author:Jack Vance & Dan Temianka [Vance, Jack & Temianka, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619471009
Publisher: Spatterlight
Published: 2016-01-08T08:00:00+00:00

kil

A forest tree. MT I

kinderling

The children of the Kokod warriors. [From the German kinder, “children”, and the diminutive suffix “-ling”; and by association with “kindling”.] KW

kirkash

A resinous tree having a strong, sweet smell. W IV

kitchet

“After adolescence and until she grows her facial mustache, usually after six to eight years, [a Darsh girl] is a ‘kitchet’. Thereafter she may incur any number of epithets, usually derogatory. The women use an equivalent set of terms in reference to the men.” Another term for a young girl was chelt. [? by association with “kit” or “kitchen”.] F VI*

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