TEXT: Useful Kislevite vocabulary, definitions, social order & proverbs 
   
  Vocabulary 
  Adversary: protivnik 
  Amulet: ladanka 
  Archaic: drievny 
  Archer: luchnik 
  Armour: dospekhi 
  Arquebus: pischal 
  Augury: pryedznamenovie 
  Aviary: ptichnik 
  Axe: topor 
  Bandit: razboinik 
  Bastard: ublyudok 
  Bath: banya 
  Bear: myedvyed 
  Beast: zver 
  Beer: pivo 
  Beeswax: vosk 
  Beggar: nishchy bomsch 
  Blessing: blagoslovenie 
  Broadsword: palash 
  Buckler: shchit 
  Cairn: mogilink 
  Campaign: kampaniya 
  Cannon: pushka 
  Castle: zamok 
  Cathedral: sobor 
  Cave: peshchiera 
  Chainmail: kolchuta 
  Chaos: khaos 
  City quarter: kvartal 
  Coaching inn: postoyaly dvor 
  Combat: bitva 
  Comrade: tovarish 
  Conjurer: fokusnik 
  Conspiracy: zagavor 
  Cottage: dacha 
  Cunt: pizda 
  Dick (insult): khuy 
  District: okrug 
  Death: smert 
  Dog: sabaka 
  Druid: vedun 
  Dungeon: tyemnitsa 
  Father: otets 
  Barber: tsiryulnik 
  Folk hero: bogatyr 
  Forest: lyes 
  Fur: mekh 
  Girl: devoshka 
  God: bog 
  Grandfather: dyedushka 
  Grandmother 
  (headscarf): babushka 
  Graveyard: kladbishchye 
  Grove: roshcha 
  Hat with flaps: ushanka 
  Hag: vedma 
  Halberd: alyebarda 
  Harlot: shlyukha 
  Healer: lekar 
  Hero: gyeroy 
  Heroine: gyeroinya 
  Honey: myod 
  Horse: loschad 
  Hovel: lachuga 
  Icebound: polinya 
  Icon: obraz / ikona 
  Keep: ostrog 
  Mace/club: zhezl 
  Magick: koldovstvo 
  Mead: myed 
  Money: dengii 
  Moneybags: kalita 
  Mountain: gora 
  Owl: sova 
  Ox: bik 
  Pagan: yazychnik 
  Pedlar: khodebshchik 
  Plague: chuma 
  Poem, epic: bylina 
  Potion: nastoika 
  Prince: knyaz 
  Principality: volost 
  Raven: voron 
  Region: uyezd 
  Riddle: zagadka 
  River: ryeka 
  Saint: svyatoy 
  Salt: sol 
  Scabbard: nozhni 
  Scroll: svitok 
  Scythe: kosa 
  Skeleton: skelet 
  Sleigh: sani 
  Sling: perevyaz 
  Small boat: chaika (seagull) 
  Snack: zakuska 
  Spear: kopye 
  Star: zvyozda 
  Stove: pech 
  Strong spirit: vodka 
  Tavern: taverna 
  Tax collection: poliudie 
  Tea urn: samovar 
  Torture: pitka 
  Vermin: gad 
  Village: derevnya 
  Warrior: voin 
  Weapon: oruzhie 
  Werewolf: oborotyen 
  Wine: vion 
  Whore: blyad 
  Wolf: volk 
  Whip: knout 
   
  
  Definitions 
  alknik: whisperer or rumour-monger 
  appanage: the practice of dividing property equally among one’s heirs, creating ever-smaller 
  land holdings called appanages 
  Ataman: ungol leader, head of the community and commander in battle 
  batog: vicious ungol flail used for punishment and torture 
  balalaika: triangle-shaped mandolin with three strings 
  byliny: Kislev’s legendary heroic folk songs - long and stirring 
  Caftan: ankle-length, heavy coat (usually fur-lined) 
  Chukhna: Norse settlers, practically a racial slur 
  Duma: the Tsar’s inner council 
  dvoeverie: the practice of two faiths, specifically, the persistence of traditional animist beliefs 
  among the recent tide of the, newer, sanctioned deities 
  golytha: colonists, usually from to the northern frontiers, usually trying to escape debt or even 
  criminal justice 
  Gostinnyi Dvor: Kislev’s traditional market place, now the upmarket side of town, populated by 
  gosti, boyars and nemtsy 
  gusli: popular stringer instrument of the lap-harp family, for many a symbol of the skomorokh 
  izba: peasant dwelling or hovel (log house with an unheated entrance room and a single living 
  and sleeping room heated by a clay or brick stove) 
  kalachi: festival vendor or opportunist 
  kartoga: penal servitude based around prison farms 
  khazak: nomad or vagabond 
  kvas: popular, cheap and weak beer 
  mestnichestvo: feudal hierarchy where rank was based almost exclusively on pedigree 
  nemtsy: a foreigner, literally “those who cannot speak” 
  obschina: peasant communities organised around a communal form of tenure 
  okroshka: cold soup with mixed raw vegetables and kvass 
  pelmeni: dumpling filled with minced meat wrapped in thin dough and boiled 
  Peklo: Land of the Dead (warm and happy afterlife) 
  Rusalki: water nymphs, mistresses of dreaded Vodyanoy, rulers of streams and lakes 
  Schii: omnipresent cabbage stew 
  Sbiten: hot mead, usually consumed in the winter 
  skomorokh: traditionally a travelling minstrel or clown, increasingly priests of the Old Ways 
  Steppe: endless windswept plains devoid of all but the occasional tree but carpeted in flowers 
  Streltsy: town guards, literally “those who shoot” (sing. strelets) 
  Taiga: swampy spruce forests dotted with birch and aspen stretching for hundreds of miles 
  Troika: sleigh or wheeled carriage, drawn by three horses abreast 
  Ungols: fierce tribes of nomadic horseman who scratch a living in the harsh Steppes 
  Ukase: edict of the tsar or a religious leader (patriarch) 
  Varangian Guard: Prince of Erengrad’s highly renowned personal bodyguard, composed of 
  specially-trained Norse warriors 
  Varangians: Norse colonisers who founded much of Kislev’s aristocracy 
  veche: public assembly open to all free men, used to solve issues of city policy & choose officials 
  vedomye zheny: village wise women i.e. busybody (male=vedun) 
  volkhv: court wizard and/or astrologer (sort of urban skomorokh) 
  yarlik: charter granted by the Tsar to princes awarding them with the title of city-state 
  Zalozhniy: souls of the damned (ghosts) 
  
  Zemsky Sobor: Council of the Motherland, Kislev’s national assembly dominated by boyars 
  Zhar Ptitsa: legendary firebird 
  Zmei: guardian dragons of the mythical Thrice-Tenth Kingdom 
   
  Approximate social order 
  kholop: a slave 
  izgoi: a serf, bound to his master’s land 
  zakup: an indentured servant 
  bobyli: peasant without plowland 
  muzhik: a peasant 
  smerd: a “free” peasant with limited rights to travel 
  posadnik: an elevated-form of peasant, such as a steward or miller 
  gosti: highest ranking merchants, exempt from taxes and empowered to purchase land 
  dyachok: priest whose duties included reading and singing 
  konyushy: squire or “master of the horse” 
  pomestia: recently created, service gentry, granted pomest lands after performing services to the 
  Tsar 
  deti boyarskie: petty nobility, literally “sons of boyars” 
  boyars: landed aristocracy 
  dvorianstro: highest aristocracy (usually Norse descendants) 
  druzhyna: nobility’s legendary personal bodyguard 
  kynaz: prince, ruler of several regions, each comprising dozens of districts 
  Tsar: autocratic ruler of all Kislev 
   
  Units of measurement 
  Sazhen: approx 2 yards 
  Verst: approx ½ a mile 
  Funt: approx a pound 
  Pud: approx 36 pounds 
  Vedro: a bucket of … 
  Bocka: a barrel of …. 
   
  Currency 
  rouble: ½ Gold Crown 
  kev: 1/10 rouble 
  kopeck: 1/6 kev 
   
  kuna: marten pelt (pl. kuny) 
  veshka: squirrel pelt 
  bela: ermine pelt 
  grivna: bundle of pelts 
  Useful words & phrases 
  Sir / Madam: ofitsiant / ofitsiantka 
  Hello: zdrah’stvooite 
  I’m delighted: Ochin Preeyatna 
  How much is that: skol’ko eto stoit 
  I’d like: ya hochy 
  Yes / no: da / nyet 
  Good / bad: khoroshiy / plokhoy 
  Big / small: blo’shoy / malen’kiy 
  Cheap / pricey: deshoviy / dorogoy 
  Hot / cold: goryachiy / kholodniy 
  Old / new: stariy / noviy 
  Open / closed: otkritiy / zakritiy 
  Please / Thank you: Puzhalsta / Spasibo 
  Excuse me / you’re welcome: Izvineetye / 
  Puzhalsta 
  Where / when / how: gde / kogda / kak 
  How long / how far: skol’ko / kak deleko 
  Left / right: leviy / praviy 
  Up / down: vverkh / vniz 
  Yesterday / today / tomorrow: vchera / 
  sevodnya / zavtra 
  Day / week: den nedelya 
  Month / year: mesyatz / god 
  I do not understand: ne paneemah’yoo 
  Health (To You): Za Vas! 
   
   
  
  Proverbs 
  A fool has no fear of going crazy. 
  A man leaves his sins behind him, but his wife brings them into the house. 
  All girls are darlings; where do bad wives come from? 
  An aged horse is 10 times more useful than an aged bridegroom. 
  Beat your wife to learn a lesson. 
  Even a sick wolf can kill a lamb. 
  Even a skomorokh weeps sometimes. 
  Even the fool may ride; even the sage may walk. 
  Fear life, not death. 
  Fear not the clever enemy, but the foolish friend. 
  He who does not weep in this world will weep in the next. 
  He who is destined for the gallows will not be drowned. 
  Hens should not pretend to be roosters. 
  Her hair is long but her wit is short. 
  If only one evil woman lived in Kislev, every man would want her as his wife. 
  If the hostess is pretty, the vodka is good. 
  If you want to find the Devil, look behind the cross. 
  It’s a sin to leave a wedding sober. 
  Love your neighbour, but put up a fence. 
  Luck is better than wealth. 
  My only hope was in a fool and then he became wise. 
  Nobody’s seen the Devil but everyone blames him. 
  Priests sing over the dead; mosquitoes sing over the living. 
  Rapidly a tale is spun; with much less speed a deed is done. 
  Save your meal for tomorrow; do your work today. 
  The early bird that sings may wake a hungry cat. 
  The falling leaf is a message to living men. 
  The gods are too high; the Tsar too distant. 
  The grave calls if you drink; the grave calls if you don’t. 
  The icon and the axe come from the same tree. 
  The muzhik walked to Kislev, just to hear a proverb! 
  The temple is near but the road is icy; the tavern is far but I’ll be careful. 
  Time is money but money is not time. 
  We are brothers, since we have dried our rags under the same sun. 
  When the cudgel fails, try roubles. 
   
   
  
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