[Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles

[kevinkeary at aol.com]

I rather like moppet.  Objections?


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From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 2:22 pm
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles


From: kevinkeary at aol.com 
>...Youth Castellan: Elinor 
>Children's Castellan: Jacques Adieranson 
>Younger Children's Castellan: Navarre Mongosdottir 
>... 
>I have been calling the younger champions Children's Castellan and Youth >Castellan up until this >year, when the age brackets moved from two to >three.  Youth should probably stay the same to >keep it in sync with the >current meaning of the word in other areas (like rapier).  But I'd >heartily >entertain suggestions for one (short) word terms for the other >two.  Thoughts? 
 
I like Youth and Children as terms. 
 
For the even younger group... 
 
According to Roget's other terms for "child" include bud, innocent, juvenile, moppet, tot, youngster. Informal: kid. Scots: bairn. Also: infant, babe, baby, bambino, neonate, newborn, nursling, toddler. 
 
Bud sounds a little goofy to me, but no worse than the typical SCAism of "Small". 
 
Moppet does goe back to 1600 to describe a child. 
 
Unfortunately, while the word "tot" is in use as early as 1425, it's a reference to a brain damaged simpleton. Using it for children is 18th century. 
 
Youngster and Juvenile are kind of broad. 
 
Kid goes back to 1200 as a term for a young goat, and 1599 as a term for a child. 
 
Bairn, from the OE Bearn (a child, a son or a daughter) dates to Beowulf. Berne and Barn are the Middle and early Modern English forms. Bairn of course is the Braid Scots variant. 
 
M/D 
 
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