Mighty Source Language: Indonesian

Etymology
Etymology of Creation: I was looking up Kris Daggers, the long wavy knives and reading the wikipedia article which mentioned, "Both a weapon and spiritual object, kris are often considered to have an essence or presence, considered to possess magical powers, with some blades possessing good luck and others possessing bad. Kris are used for display, as talismans with magical powers, weapons, a sanctified heirloom (pusaka), auxiliary equipment for court soldiers, an accessory for ceremonial dress, an indicator of social status, a symbol of heroism, etc." The sanctified heirloom reminded me a bit of the "mother's bone" phrase I use to talk about hero-identified objects in Atl'antean culture (mother's bone flute etc.) so I clicked on Pusaka. It is a Sanskrit word meaning treasure or heirloom. I'm happy with the idea that Mighty words become skewed in later languages, such as mother being eventually derived from Mighty 'daughter' and since mother's bone is meant to denote a sacred object passed down (an heirloom) through the matrilineal line the originals I do figure were made of Mighty bone, I liked the idea of a word that originally meant bone coming to mean treasure. To not steal the word directly, I sound changed the P to K which came to mind from the P->F G->K rule (Pug to Fuck) but also because there is a PIE root *(s)keu meaning "to cover or conceal" (which I'm pronouncing in my head skew, so it matches pew-sokka), which evolved into both Old English hydan meaning "to hide, conceal; preserve; hide oneself; bury a corpse," and Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," pretty much exactly the same as the modern English hoard. And I wanted to combine those ideas that Dragon bones are the inmost hidden treasure that you pass down as heirlooms. Changed Kusaka to Kulaka to also pull in the idea of heirloom, OE geloma, meaning tool. Which makes it feel more like it pulls on Thule for sacredness and makes it sound more ulilating which is how I want Mighty to be a lot of the time and makes it sound notably different for a full sound change, so I feel less like I just flat out stole a word. Finally decided to add the *ska root for an idea of patronage support and changed it to Kulaska and finally decided that it's bone, a hard thing, and don't need the a on the end, especially with the aspiration on the final K so moved it to Kulask. Notes
Mighty Neutral Gender ˧kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Bone.

Mighty Masculine Gender ˦kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Natural, more or less. A cognate with the idea of a semantic prototype but only in regards to a basic physical thing as it naturally appears. There's no implication of it being unshaped or lack of guidance, but that it conforms to natural contours rather than being decorated; Plain. But it can be used to describe something like an unfurnished house. This is the structure of a general house. This is what a cave looks like when it is naturally formed or after it has just been dug. Meaning there has been no subsequent assistance or process to reshape it beyond what it has taken to get it to this point. Raw. But might as easily mean cooked without flavoring. Can be used also to mean Refine, Extrude, Create, or Birth in verb form.

Mighty Feminine Gender ˨kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Rock or Stone as a general term instead of any particular type.

Mighty Super Masculine Gender ˥kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: to Give, as in to give a Gift without any additional obligation. Not usable as a term of Trade, so you couldn't use this to say give me the idol and I'll toss you the whip.

Mighty Super Feminine Gender ˩kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Heirloom, more or less. Specifically a family Treasure passed down to someone from the matrilineal line because it was expected to be good for the inheritor. Translated as the phrase "Mother's Bone (object)."

Mighty Child Gender ]kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Bone.

Affectionate Gender /kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Beautiful physical form, as in the shape of the Body. Much the same as saying a horse has excellent conformation, though this encompasses the whole of the body not simply bone structure. A compliment or complimentary description. Unlike in English there is no additional implication of other types of beauty or goodness. This is simply that a person's body is pleasant to the senses.

Other Gender \kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Treasure, with the implication of it being hidden treasure.

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