Attested name translations: view article

so i had this Ephesus ruins feral cat conculture for a while before starting to make this language so I have a lot of names I have to translate. but i don't have the vocab yet so I'm making lighter work for later by translating them into sign-meanings so I can just directly translate into signs once I come up with them.
Names are all basically regular words/phrases with the "cat" element either simulfixed (if the rest of the name is signed) or suffixed.

Deities and legendary figures
sun-cat, gold-eye-cat - Sun / Golden Eyes / Golden Eye (Sun goddess)
moon-cat, silver-eye-cat - Moon / Silver Eyes / Silver Eye (Moon god, brother of Sun goddess)
(both together: watch-watch-cat - The Watchers)
(In legend, Sun and Moon each clawed out one of their eyes, from which they sculpted the first two cats. They watch over the world by day and by night respectively with their remaining eye.)

first-cat - First Cat ("Ailuros")
second-cat - Second Cat ("Felis")

midsummer-cat - June (founder of the Colony)
robin-cat - Robin (first Lorespeaker, to whom the legends were supposedly revealed)

Rank names
Say-truth-cat - Truthspeaker (leader)
Say-enemy-cat - Foespeaker (designated devil's advocate, role is to find the potential problems with strategies and predict what enemies will do)
Say-story-cat - Lorespeaker (storyteller, spiritual & medical role)
Old-cat - those who can't hunt enough to feed themselves anymore due to age or disability. assist the lorespeaker with medical and spiritual rituals
Hunt-cat - adult cats
Learn-cat - weaned kittens and adolescent cats
Little-cat - unweaned kittens

Firstborn names
(directly named for things associated with the sky - birds, flying insects, weather phenomena, tall trees. Sun, moon and stars are not used though. Doesn't have to follow their appearance.)
robin-cat (Robin, from above)
kestrel-cat
oak-leaf-cat
heron-cat
gale-cat
clear sky-cat
lightning-cat
spruce-needle-cat
line-cloud-cat (i.e. contrail)
rainbow-cat
white-moth-cat
birch-bark-cat
dust-storm-cat
winter-rain-cat
thick-cloud-cat
eagle-cat
hail-cat
wing-cat
bee-cat
hawk-cat
twig-cat
dusk-cat
midday-cat

Laterborn names
(named for associations between their coat colors and earthly [including human] things. almost always have the element "fur" [Dc] in their name-signs. bear in mind that cats are partly colorblind and their color spectrum is various shades of yellow-gray-blue.)
deep-lake-fur-cat (dark gray)
paint-paint-fur-cat (multicolored - reduplication for plurality)
goldenrod-fur-cat (golden or orange)
marble-fur-cat (white, from the white marble ruins)
daisy-fur-cat (cream or cream-and-white)
winter-grass-fur-cat (light gray or light brown)
laurel-flower-fur-cat (orange or golden)
car-tire-fur-cat (black or dark gray)
ash-fur-cat
fire-fur-cat
clay-dirt-fur-cat
river-pebble-fur-cat
small-snake-fur-cat
slate-fur-cat
rat-fur-cat
bronze-metal-fur-cat
leaf-fur-cat
sand-fur-cat
silver-metal-fur-cat

COAT COLORS AS SEEN WITH CAT (PROTANOPIC) VISION

same as they look to humans: black, blue (dark slate grey), lilac (medium warm grey), cream tabby
chocolate = very dark warm gray
cinnamon = medium-dark yellowish-brown
fawn = medium yellow-gray, similar lightness to lilac but yellower
black factor tabbies: rufusing is much less obvious, the difference between warm gray and cold gray background. dark brown tabbies are very low contrast. cinnamon tabby background is light grayish brown
silver tabbies: look p much the same except for their stripe colors
red tabby = dark yellow stripes, a little darker than antique style brass. background yellowish beige
torties' patches are still evident, red-factor and black-factor patches as above. ditto torbies
ticked tabbies = see normal tabby but without stripes.

coat colors/patterns found in irl ephesus feral cats:
- Van pattern and other high white are very common; low white and no white also exist
- Mackerel tabby, broken tabby, classic tabby (seemingly rare), solid
- Black bases, tortie bases, and red bases
- Dilutes and denses
- Silvers (seemingly rare)
- Longhairs and shorthairs

white:
-white
-bright cyan/sky blue
-light yellow

grey:
-red-magenta/pink
-turquoise/teal, darker/less saturated cyan
-grey

black:
-dark brown
-dark colors in general
-black

bright yellow:
-yellow
-bright green

dim yellow/olive:
-orange
-light brown
-red
-dark/dim green
-dark/dim yellow
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