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== Kroges, pradges, fenges ==
'''Author: Khreestrefah'''<br />
'''Posted: Tuesday July 02, 2019'''<br />
''Original: [https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=430125#p430125 Help With D'ni Translation]''

We've received some further information on words having to do with "art" subsequent to this thread.

RAWA has confirmed the following three words (the first successfully guessed by Larry Fontenot<ref>{{cite forum post|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/257858391385034/posts/559609031209967/|author=Larry Fontenot|title=New words, in their noun, verb, and title forms.|forum=Guild of Linguists' Pub Facebook group|date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>) that each appear to contain the word ''gestoy'' :

'''{{dni-reftext|krogestoy}}''' = "dance, the art of dancing";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|pradgestoy}}''' = "sculpture";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|fengestoy}}''' = "acting, the art of playing a role."

Interestingly enough, RAWA also observed that without the final syllable ''toy'' these are the corresponding verbs for the actions involved in the particular forms of art:

'''{{dni-reftext|kroges}}''' = "I dance";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|pradges}}''' = "I sculpt";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|fenges}}''' = "I act, I play a role."

The compounds are only broadly similar in construction — ''kro'' is a verb "I move"; ''pråd'' the noun "rock"; while *''fen'' is similar to ''fenah'' "story" — so they probably developed by analogy as the different kinds of art were invented or differentiated. RAWA also mentioned the three derived nouns:

'''{{dni-reftext|krogestahn}}''' = "dancer";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|pradgestahn}}''' = "sculptor";<br />
'''{{dni-reftext|fengestahn}}''' = "actor."

This probably gives us the names of two of the Minor Guilds:

''Telprådges'' = "Guild of Sculptors" (short for ''tel-okh-prådges-tahn-tee'') and<br />
''Telfenges'' = "Guild of Actors" (short ''for tel-okh-fenges-tahn-tee'').

Shorah