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noun [AD] Adjective[GD] Gender Determined[N] Noun ˧˩kʰulɑskʰ kulask
[˧˩kʰulɑskʰ] 
prize

 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
Other Gender ˧˩kʰulɑskʰ English Gloss: Treasure, with the implication of it being hidden treasure.
↺ 23 December 2015, 10:22

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 riches (treasure)noun˧˩kʰulɑskʰ
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