[Northkeep] Castellan awards and titles
kevinkeary at aol.com
kevinkeary at aol.com
Thu Jun 14 13:33:36 PDT 2007
I rather like moppet. Objections?
-----Original Message-----
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
_________________________________________________________________
Like puzzles? Play free games & earn great prizes. Play Clink now. http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2
_______________________________________________
orthkeep mailing list
orthkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
ttp://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/northkeep-ansteorra.org
________________________________________________________________________
AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
More information about the Northkeep
mailing list