Vlachka
Ravkan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -atʃkə
Orthographic Form
vlachka or $
Noun
vlachka f (nominative plural vlachkai)
- briquette (word for a small bar of metal)
- name of the Ravkan currency (its associated symbol is $)
Inflection
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vlachka | vlachkai |
| Accusative | vlachke | vlachke |
| Partitive | vlachka | |
| Dative | vlachkat | vlachkes |
| Instrumental | vlachkash | vlachkesi |
Creation and Usage Notes
| The word derives from the basis of Ravkan currency. The bill was referred to as a "little bar", as if it was a little bar of gold, and the name stuck.
Couple of sidenotes. First, the plural was incorrectly listed as vlachki on several documents I shared with production. This was all stuff we were doing before the first episode even aired, so I beg you to forgive me for the error. The plural is indeed vlachkai as one would expect. Second, Leigh hated this word. I pitched to her, and her exact words were, "I don't love it". lol I was willing to dump it at that point, but she suggested passing it on to production, to see if they might come up with something else. What I knew at the time is if you pass something like that on to production it immediately becomes canon—and it did. My sincere apologies, Leigh. :( I hope you like the etymology, at least. If it were just me I would've dumped it and tried to come up with soemthing you liked. Now we're stuck with it. Oh, by the way, I totally intended for the word for the currency to begin with Zh [ʒ], hence the currency symbol $. Oops! Totally forgot. -David J. Peterson 15:31, 6 May 2024 (PDT) |