Chuur

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Yulish

Etymology

From an invisible proto-language
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Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈtʃuːʀ/

Noun

chuur (indefinite plain/vocative singular, indefinite vocative plural)

  1. holly
    Graanip hi chuur!
    Bells and holly!
Inflection
Indefinite Definite
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Plain [[chuur{{{finc}}}]] chuurp [[chuur{{{finc}}}ya]] chuurva
Objective chuurn chuurm chuurnna chuurmma
Vocative [[chuur{{{finc}}}]] chuursh chuurship

Creation and Usage Notes

I take credit for coming up with the expression "bells and holly". Clay Kaytis, the director, wanted the elves to have a kind of battlecry they'd use when either diving into combat and parachuting off the sleigh. He asked me to do a number of natlang cries in an Elvish accent, but I didn't like that idea, so I came up with Graanip hi chuur! and recorded that as well. I think it works rather nicely, and count it as good fortune that that's the one that made the cut.