Could you help me with some naturalistic words that I can't find in the dictionary? Particularly: moonlight, sunshine, sand, rain, wind, grass, river, ocean. I'm also wondering how to form similes, for example if you wanted to say that someone or something was "like the sunlight"...? But in the form of a single adjective, the way we use the suffix '-esque' to form the word statuesque. Hopefully that makes sense.
Your wish is my command! (Eventually.)Since we didn’t already have a name for a moon (Cardassia Prime has three), that needed to be made: prisok. Which makes “moonlight” prisokirc. (pree-soh-keersh)Given that Cardassians are not fond of bright lights, and their name for their sun translates as “the Watcher,” the word for sunlight has fewer positive connotations: ra’ajev prisik, “the Watcher’s eye.” (rah’ah-zhayv pree-seek)There was actually already a word for rain, hec (haysh), but considering the word is also slang for “semen,” you might have missed it...! :PAs for the rest:
Sand: Xass (X = like the final CH in Bach, plus “ahss”)Wind: sU (soo)Grass: maka (mah-kah)River: mat’ta (maht’tah)Ocean: ea (ay-ah)
Regarding comparatives, you can use the prefix Chi-, which means “close to” or “almost.” So, if you wanted to say someone was like moonlight, they would be chiprisokirc. A bit of a mouthful, but that’s Cardassians for you.
