Language and Planets in That Hideous Strength



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Neptune
Uranus --
Saturn -- Lurga
Jupiter -- Glundandra
Mars -- Malacandra
Earth -- Thulcandra "Silent Planet"
Moon -- Sulva
Venus -- Perelandra
Mercury -- Viritrilbia
Sun -- Arbol

Some Old Solar vocabulary and related words from Wikipedia,:

  • Eldil, pl. Eldila—an everlasting, rational, "multidimensional energy being", that is not organic; an angel. Some act in the capacity of "Oyarsa" of a planet.
  • Field of Arbol—the Solar System
  • Glund or GlundandraJupiter
  • hnau or 'nau—a rational being, capable of speech, intellect, and personhood, and containing a soul.
  • handra—a planet or land
  • LurgaSaturn
  • MalacandraMars
  • MaleldilJesus, the second person of God with his Father and "the Third One".
  • Neruvalhapax legomenon in Perelandra and, from context,[3] apparently Uranus
  • Oyarsa, pl. Oyéresu(Title)—Ruler of a planet, a higher-order angel, perhaps an arch-angel.
  • PerelandraVenus
  • Sulva—The Moon
  • ThulcandraEarth, literally "The Silent Planet"
  • ViritrilbiaMercury

  • Arbolthe Sun (Field of Arbol - Solar System)
  • crah — final section of a poem
  • eldil — spirit, angel
  • GlundandraJupiter
  • handra — earth, land, planet
  • harandra — high earth, plateau
  • handramit — low earth, valley
  • hlab — language
  • hluntheline — long for, yearn for, desire (for the future)
  • hnakra, pl. hnéraki — a vicious aquatic beast hunted by the hrossa. Its qualities could be those of a shark and a crocodile. Lewis may have borrowed the word from Germanic nicor, Old English niker(en), meaning "sea monster".[citation needed]
  • hnakrapunt, pl. hnakrapunti — hnakra-slayer
  • hnau — rational creature
  • honodraskrud — ground-weed (honodra perhaps being an alteration of handra, + skrud "weed")
  • hressni — female hrossa
  • hrublood (hence arbol hru, gold)
  • Malacandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Malac and the noun handra, which latter means earth, land, or planet, and referring to the fourth planet from the sun; in English: Mars
  • MaleldilJesus, Lord, God
  • Oyarsa, pl. Oyéresu — (Title) Ruler of a planet, a higher-order angel, perhaps an arch-angel.
  • Perelandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Perel and the noun handra, which means earth, land, or planet, and referring to the second planet from the sun; in English: Venus
  • Thulcandra — a compound noun, formed with the prefix Thulc, meaning "silent", and handra, meaning earth, land, or planet, referring to the third planet from the sun in English: "Silent Planet" or Earth
  • wondelone — long for, yearn for, miss (from the past).


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