Homme-qui-rigole
Jan 6 2007, 02:26 AM
Hi guys!
Where the word Invae come from? I know that's how Harlequin call the Insect spirits, but it's Sperethiel or Latin or what? What's the translation? That's mean insect, litterally, or what? (my second guess is that a derivative of the word Invader, but i'm not sure)
BookWyrm
Jan 6 2007, 02:29 AM
I would say your interpretation is more or less on the money, until someone writing anything on the language clears it up.
Ancient History
Jan 6 2007, 03:03 AM
It actually originally came from Earthdawn, and is assumed to either be
Sperethiel or a related language (Precursor Sperethiel, Theran, a loan-word into Throalic or Or'zat/Or'zet).
Kesslan
Jan 6 2007, 06:29 AM
Makes me wonder though.
Just as a little tidbit of info. Robotech (a totally unrelated series) also had sort of incect like (Really.. more slug like) invaders called the Invid.
Invae and Invid makes me wonder if there's actually some real linguisitc connection beyond "Wow that sounds cool for smoethign totally alien!"
Trigger
Jan 6 2007, 08:18 AM
Invae as translated from Latin (I took three years in high school and still have a semi-firm grasp and a dictionary) :
to undertake, go in, enter, get in, to attack, usurp, to assail, seize, fall upon
So basically it is a precursor to modern word for invade.
nezumi
Jan 6 2007, 03:36 PM
Also notice it builds off two words, insect and larvae, which I believe come from English.
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