User:Thnidu/sandbox/Lewis glossary

NOTE: This glossary is taken from Out of the Silent Planet as of 04:53, 29 May 2015. I intend to integrate into it anything in the Glossary sections of the other books' articles and The Space Trilogy, then break it out and transclude it into all of them. See Talk:Out of the Silent Planet:
 * ... By the way, exactly this same glossary is listed in the articles on Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, so when people are satisfied with the revision, we should probably copy it to those articles. JerryFriedman 16:58, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Unsurprisingly, the versions have become separated by eleven years of divergent editing; that's one of the things that transclusion is meant to take care of. --Thnidu (talk) 05:27, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Glossary

 * Arbol — the Sun (Field of Arbol - Solar System)
 * crah — final section of a poem
 * eldil, pl. eldila—an everlasting, rational, "multidimensional energy being" that is not organic; a spirit; an angel. Some act in the capacity of "Oyarsa" of a planet.
 * Field of Arbol—the Solar System
 * Glund or Glundandra—Jupiter
 * handra — earth's element, land, planet
 * harandra — high earth, plateau
 * handramit — low earth, valley
 * hlab — language
 * Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi &mdash; lit. "Language of the Field of Arbol" (i.e., of our Solar System) &mdash; the Old Solar language, spoken by all sentient inhabitants of the Field of Arbol except those of Earth.
 * hluntheline — long for, yearn for, desire (for the future)
 * hnakra, pl. hnéraki — a vicious Martian aquatic beast hunted by the hrossa. Its qualities could be those of a shark and a crocodile. Lewis may have borrowed the word from Germanic nicor, Old English niker(en), meaning "sea monster", or from the monster that is the object of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark".
 * hnakrapunt, pl. hnakrapunti — hnakra-slayer
 * hnau or 'nau (pl. same)—a rational being, capable of speech, intellect, and personhood, and containing a soul.

Hnau is a word in the Old Solar language which refers to "rational animals" such as Humans. In the book, the Old Solar speaker specifies that God is not hnau, and is unsure whether eldila can be termed "hnau", deciding that if they are hnau, they are a different kind of hnau than Humans or Martians.
 * honodraskrud — ground-weed (honodra perhaps being an alteration of handra, + skrud "weed")
 * hross, pl. hrossa— One of the three species of hnau native to Mars. They are somewhat taller and thinner than humans. Ransom finds them beautiful: "covered, face and all, with thick black animal hair, and whiskered like a cat ... glossy coat, liquid eye, sweet breath and whitest teeth" (Out of..., p. 59, Chap. 9)
 * hressni — female hrossa
 * hru — blood (hence arbol hru, gold, lit. "Sun's blood")
 * Lurga—Saturn
 * Malacandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Malac and the noun handra, which latter means earth, land, or planet, and referring to the fourth planet from the sun; in English: Mars
 * Maleldil — the second person of the Christian God, with "the Old One" and "the Third One"; described in Perelandra as having been incarnated as Jesus
 * Neruval—hapax legomenon in Perelandra and, from context, apparently Uranus
 * Oyarsa, pl. Oyéresu — (Title) Ruler or presiding angel of a planet. An Oyarsa is higher order of angel, perhaps an archangel. The title Oyarsa seems to indicate the function of leadership, regardless of the leader's species: when the Perelandran human Tor assumes rule of his world, he styles himself "Tor-Oyarsa-Perelendri" (presumably "Tor, Ruler of Perelandra").
 * (As Lewis implies in Chapter 22 of Out of the Silent Planet, the name Oyarsa was suggested by Oyarses, the name given in Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia to the governors of the celestial spheres. Bernard's word was almost certainly a corruption—or a deliberate alteration—of Greek οὐσιάρχης [ousiarches, "lords of being"], used with the same meaning in the Hermetic Asclepius.) The eldila resident on—actually, imprisoned in—Earth are "dark eldila", fallen angels or demons. The Oyarsa of Earth, the "Bent One", is Satan. Ransom later meets the Oyéresu of both Mars and Venus, who are described as being masculine (but not actually male) and feminine (but not actually female), respectively. The Oyéresu of other worlds have characteristics like those of the corresponding Classical gods; for instance, the Oyarsa of Jupiter gives a feeling of merriment (joviality).

The hrossa's word for "to eat" contains consonants unreproducible by the human mouth. It is not clear how that word would be pronounced on Venus, where Ransom, in the sequel, finds humans speaking the same language as that spoken by the hrossa.
 * Perelandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Perel and the noun handra, which means earth, land, or planet, and referring to the second planet from the sun; in English: Venus
 * sorn, pl. séroni — One of the three species of hnau native to Mars. They are thin, fifteen-foot-high humanoids having coats of pale feathers and seven-fingered hands.
 * Sulva—The Moon
 * Thulcandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Thulc, meaning "silent", and handra, meaning earth, land, or planet, referring to the third planet from the sun; in English: "Silent Planet", i.e., Earth
 * Tinidril &mdash; the human queen of Perelandra, an unfallen Eve (P)
 * Tor &mdash; the human king of Perelandra, an unfallen Adam (P)
 * Viritrilbia—Mercury
 * wondelone — long for, yearn for, miss (from the past).