//------------------------------// // Glossary // Story: Friendship is Optimal: Mismatching Wits // by GroaningGreyAgony //------------------------------// Archaic terms used by Luna. (Throwing this up quickly so people can start to use it. I’ll clean it up later, maybe, or just delete this sentence and hope no one notices.) Please note that while I am the sort of person who reads Shakespeare for pleasure, I am no expert on Elizabethian English, and I am often playing it by ear or by quick bouts of web research. Luna’s speech in this story should not be considered historically accurate to any great degree, and it is certainly interlarded with many modern terms and instances of modern usage. Words that merely have ‘st’ or ‘th’ (or ‘est’ and ‘eth’) appended and which are otherwise unaltered (such as ‘wouldst’ or ‘mayest’) are not included in this glossary. Aegis - shield, protection. An - sometimes used for ‘if’. Albeit - although, though. Certes - certainly. Demesne - domain. Doth, dost - does. E’en - contraction of ‘even’. Enow - enough. Forsooth, in sooth - Truly. ‘Sooth’ means truth, as in ‘soothsayer.’ Garderobe - A room in a castle where cloaks are hung, and where there is a hole in the floor (usually overhanging the moat) which serves as a toilet. Garderobes in Canterlot castle usually overhang a small enchanted cloud which is changed out daily by pegasus chambermaids, but some are located over discreet areas of the Royal Gardens. Hath - has. Joinder - joining together. Mayhap - perhaps. Short for ‘It may happen.’ Perchance - perhaps. Privy - private. As a noun, can mean an outhouse. Sate - satisfy. Seemly - appropriate, socially acceptable. ‘tis - contraction of ‘it is.’ Trow - true. ‘I trow’ = ‘I trust’ or ‘I believe to be true’ Thou, Thee - You. Thou’rt - contraction of thou art = you are. Thou’lt - contraction of ‘thou shalt’ or ‘thou wilt’ = ‘you shall’ / ‘you will’ ‘twould - contraction of ‘it would.’ Thy, Thine - Your. Wert - were