QUNLAT BREAKDOWN.

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CONLANGING THE QUN.

THIS IS ALL HEADCANON. I'm using it to keep track of the Qunlat I inevitably make the fuck up so I don't reinvent the wheel. This is a companion(ish thing) to this post, and is made entirely so I can keep my thoughts straight and take notes. You do noooot need to read both. You don't need to read either. Honestly, why are you here? If you're not sure either, you can return to the glossary.

INDEX

→VERBS
• verb endings
  • present
  • future
  • past
• TO EAT
• TO EAT: IMPERATIVE
• to BE
• to solve
• to shit
• to seek
→NOUNs
• SHIT
• MAGIC
• Leadership (concept)
→invectives
• general
• SHIT
→PHRASEs
• GOOD COP, BAD COP
• thanks
• [it] can't be
• Need too know

CONTENT

• OSHASRA: To eat, second person imperative. Presumably this means oshas is the root of 'to eat'.^*1.
• VASHEBAS: Shit(ty) thing. From combining vashedan (seems to be an adjective / adverb form of 'excrement') and bas (thing). Presumably this is just a general form of insulting an object, like calling something 'trash'².^*
• SAAR-ISS: Magic. Literally 'special danger', from combining saar (danger) and iss (special). ^*
• TAL-EBKA: It isn't or it shouldn't, implied 'it can't be'. From Qunlat expression asit tal-eb (it is meant to be), and adding -ka to the end. Though looking at this now, I probably should have made it 'asitka', since that's the verb. Oh, well. I can always argue it's a colloquialism. ^{* †}
• VASHED: Excrement, invective form. Literally, "shit!". From vashedan, the descriptive³ form of excrement.^*
• STEN-SAAM, STEN-RAAS: Literally 'soldier-something, soldier-nothing', colloquially the equivalent of the modern phrase 'good cop, bad cop'; this is taking from the use of imekari-saam, imekari-raas to mean 'good child, bad child'^{* †}
• EHEU: Any exclamation of surprise, like 'wow', 'ah', 'ow', or 'oh'. Shamelessly stolen the Latin, because we're all going to hell and I intend to see you there. ^*
• PASHAAR: 'Thanks', in the colloquial sense. Literally 'enough', from 'pashaara'. Probably informal. ^*
• ARIKARA: Leadership, sovereignty, official power. From how ari is used to denote leadership in the triumverate, and kara, meaning 'above in rank'.^*
• Need to Know: From 'iss', special, and 'salit', meaning unknown so I can do what I want. ^*
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TABLES

For starters, here's my best fucking guess on verb endings, some are confirmed and some are my best guess based on context and crap.

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

-Edan / -Dan

-Asit

Plural

-Saam

-Ost

-Adim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

-Idath / -Dath

-Toh

Plural

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

-Eb

Plural

-Tot

And onto the shit I just fucking made up based on this system of unmitigated guesswork.

OSHA[S]: To Eat (root)

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Oshasdan

Oshas-

Oshasit

Plural

Oshasaam

Oshasost

Oshasadim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Oshasidath

Oshas-

Oshas-toh

Plural

Oshas-

Oshas-

Oshas-

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Oshas-

Oshas-

Oshaseb

Plural

Oshas-

Oshas-

Oshas-tot

VASH[E]: To Shit (root)⁴

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Vashdan

Vash-

Vashesit

Plural

Vashesaam

Vashost

Vashadim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Vashidath

Vash-

Vash-toh

Plural

Vash-

Vash-

Vash-

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Vash-

Vash-

Vasheb

Plural

Vash-

Vash-

Vashtot

ASH[K]: To Seek (root)

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Ashdan

Ash-

Ash-sit

Plural

Ashsaam

Ashkost5

Ashadim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Ashidath

Ash-

Ash-toh

Plural

Ash-

Ash-

Ash-

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Ash-

Ash-

Ashkeb

Plural

Ash-

Ash-

Ash-tot

TALLIS: To Solve (root)

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Tallisdan

Tallis-

Tallis-sit

Plural

Tallis-saam

Tallisost

Tallisadim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Tallisidath

Tallis-

Tallis-toh

Plural

Tallis-

Tallis-

Tallis-

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Tallis-

Tallis-

Tallis-keb

Plural

Tallis-

Tallis-

Tallis-tot

E[B]: To Be (root)

Present

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Edan

Eb-

Ebasit

Plural

Ebasaam

Ebost

Ebadim

Future

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Ebidath

Eb-

Ebatoh

Plural

Eb-

Eb-

Asit

Past

1st Person

2nd Person

3rd Person

Singular

Eb-

Eb-

Ebakeb

Plural

Eb-

Eb-

Ebatot

FOOTNOTES
¹ - No basis in existing Qunlat, except for the fact that first person imperative verbs seem to end in -ra. So, that's fun.
² - Qunlat's go-to insult seems to be shit. Fucking seems to be an insult as well, but only rarely. The most grave insults seem to be calling a person an animal, a thing, or a child.
³ - Does Qunlat have a different form for adverbs vs adjective? I bet not.
⁴ - I made the root of 'to shit' into 'vash/e' instead of 'vashed' because it looks nicer when conjugated, fight me.
⁵ - The extra 'k' is because of one of Sten's battle cries, ashkost kata, translated to 'you all seek death' ('you are seeking death'), and we know kata means 'death', so... either that or the K denotes future perfect but wow i dont want to get into perfect verb forms oh my god.
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