Dragon Blood Ritual & [Silver Hair] House #Targaryen Ancient Noble Family of Dragonlords From The #Valyrian Freehold in Essos. #houseofthedragon #gameofthrones

Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is brōzi “name”. This word features prominently in one of my all time favorite scenes from Game of Thrones: the introduction of Grey Worm played by Jacob Anderson.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is jemagon “to lead”. The glyph is a depiction of a light leading a boat.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rytsa “healthy”. It’s from this root that the common greeting rytsas derives.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is pālegon “to turn”. Pāletilla for “crown” is one of my favorite derivations from this root.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rijagon “to praise”. The quoted line is all the way back from Game of Thrones when Thoros of Myr met Melisandre.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ñāqien “sunrise”. Aside from its meaning, this is one of the few content words with an -ien ending, giving some company to the name Targaryen (in Valyrian, Targārien).

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is sambar “cloud”. Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful day full of whispers and fluffy clouds. :)

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rizmon “sand”. This is a favorite glyph of mine—and a favorite word—for no particular reason. Feels like it fits.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rāenagon “to wipe”. This also where you get words for washing, brushing, and the shore (where the sea washes the land).

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rios “valley”. It’s also used as the main content glyph for trūma “deep”.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is tepagon “to give”. This word is only used with first or second person subjects or objects. So basically, if you say the queen gave a dragon egg to her son, you don’t use this word. Instead, you’d use irughagon.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rūs “infant”. The word “infant” is notably not the same word as “child”. As in most languages. (Looking at people complaining about Kal-El being Star Child.)

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is kisagon “to eat”. This is actually an old word, as the modern term is ipradagon. This glyph primarily shows up in passive constructions, but derivations of it exist as well.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is rūnagon “memory”. This is one of my favorite glyphs: the filled heart, the seat of memory. The root has been a fruitful one for derivation giving me words for “letter”, “nostalgia”, and “poetry”.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is pirta “false”. The quoted line is one of the dragonkeeper’s lines from episode 104 of House of the Dragon.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ñūvir “poison”. I love this glyph. It reminds me of a little beastie from the Zelda games. Also useful if you’re translating Hamlet.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is nevegon/maghagon “to carry”. The first sense is the very basic notion of carrying; the second implies directionality (carrying something to somewhere).

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is gȳs “lime”. Yes, that is lime the mineral, not the fruit.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is hylagon “to feel”. I ended up needing this for one translation or another and it’s proved quite useful for the purposes of derivation.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is hepagon “to climb”. This word is used literally but also metaphorically during dragon flight (to go higher).

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ātsio “tooth”. This is primarily a ligature for double rr.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is hīlagon “to hit”. It depicts one person towering over another with a raised fist. I drew it out by hand, looked at it, and thought, “Huh. Sure does look like two interlocking X’s.”

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is mēny “body”. The line I quoted is part of Dany’s first commands to the Unsullied. The word for “soldier” (mentys) derives from the word for “body”.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is tēmagon “to poke”. This word always reminds me of the Iron Throne, which is supposed to poke the person who sits on it so that they don’t sit comfortably with that much power.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is hulagon “to pour”. From this word you get hulvos “pitcher” and ihulty “beverage”.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is leghagon “to fill”. To say something is full or filled you use the adjective lēda, and that allows you to say Bantis zōbrie issa se ossȳngnoti lēdys: “The night is dark and full of terrors.”

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ñuton “pot”. The glyph is in the shape of a pot with water inside. Due to the nature of cooking, the glyph is used for the unrelated word keragon “to cook”.

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Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is one of my favorites: havon “bread”. I love the way it looks. The collective havor is where the word for “food” comes from. #language #HighValyrian #hotd #houseofthedragon #got #gameofthrones #orthography #conlang

Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is bāne “hot”. It’s also used for dija, which also means “hot”, but hot inside, not to the touch. #conlang #hotd #houseofthedragon #language #orthography #highvalyrian