[Fictionary] YARAK results

Tue Apr 22 18:47:55 EDT 2014

Strawberry festival:
http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles%20Published/03%20NA%20Native%20American/02%20Strawberry/na_02_Srawberry.html

-Fran

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:

> This falconry term eluded almost everybody, while Linda's felted boot was
> our runaway winner (how easy is it to run in felted boots?) -- the next
> round is hers for the running!
>
>
> General comments:
> Several of these feel perilously close to giving rise to Yurt Alerts, but
> not quite there. I found in looking at the list that I had failed to send
> my definition: it would also have been "perilously close to giving rise to
> Yurt Alerts, but not quite there".  (Hutch)
>
> To me, the word sounds Mongolian, but aren't we supposed to be speaking
> English?  Anyway, with Spring and so many full moon-related holidays, I
> will give two points to the fermented date drink and one point to the
> strawberry festival meal.  I really like the mated parrot def and the
> super-alert bird.  Dross? Related to bagasse?   PS Salgine Clay?    (Linda)
>
> I am keeping my optional 1 point for myself. Not for my fictionition, but
> for me, because I want a point. (Fran_
>
> Four authors detected the air of the steppes about this one, so how come
> we didn't get any outright yurt defs?  Others situated it a bit further
> south, in or near the sands of Araby.  It does have that sound, doesn't it.
> (Elliott)
>
>
>
> LINDA yarak, n. A felted boot.
> 2 points for reminding me of yurts.  (Ranjit)
> 2 points.  (Andrew)
> 2 points. Short and simple. (Nick)
> 1 point. (JC)
> 2 points. (Matt)
> 1 point. Simple and straightforward.  (Nora)
> 2 points. (Jean-Joseph)
>
>
> JEAN-JOSEPH  yarak, adj. Prone to excessive blinking.
> 1 point.  (Andrew)
> 1 point. (Matt)
> 1 point. The thing needs a name, for sure, but ``yarak'' just doesn't
> sound right for it.   (Elliott)
>
>
> MATT  yarak, n. An Aboriginal tool for digging insects out of trees.
> 1 point   (Ranjit)
> 1 point. "A finger." (David)
> 1 point. (Pierre)
> 1 point. (Jean-Joseph)
> Aboriginal Australian?  How likely is it to end in a k?  (Elliott)
>
>
> NICK yarak, n. (fr. Ar.) A log for recording nightly astronomical
> observations.
> It was too cloudy here in southwestern Virginia to see the total lunar
> eclipse last night. :-(    (Hutch)
> An area of knowledge often associated with Jim, yes.  But I'd expect a
> real astronomical loan from Arabic to be spelled with a c, like almanac.
>  (Elliott)
>
>
> DAVID  yarak, n. (fr. Turkish) The rose-petal dross discarded in the
> manufacture of attar of roses.
> 2 points. (JC)
> 2 points and the bagasse award. (Pierre)
> 1 point. (Jean-Joseph)
> 1 point.  Rose bagasse!  What is attar of roses?  OE ator `venom', like in
> ``attercop''?  Another Turkish word?  A complete fabrication? (Elliott)
>
>
> ELLIOTT  yarak, n. The practice of recording a contract by storing
> identical copies in mated parrots.
> 2 points for being hilarious.  (Fran)
> Braaack! Polly wants a ... party of the first part *LMAO*  (Hutch)
> Sounds Elliotic.
> This has the ring of Elliott. (Jean-Joseph)
> Not sure why I put in ``mated''; it just sounded right.  Was it so that
> each party could keep a copy?  Or was the parrot family kept intact in the
> hopes that the contract would be passed on to their offspring?  (Elliott)
> Elliott earns 2 points for his correct guess
>
>
> PIERRE yarak, n. A drink made from fermented dates, drunk by Assyrians to
> celebrate the new moon.
> 2 points. It should be this. (David)
> 1 point for rare source language.  (Nick)
> 2 points. When I saw this definition, it struck a chord. If I'm right, I
> think I must have seen it in a book somewhere long ago. (Hutch)
> 2 points. (Linda)
> 1 point. I'd like to try this beverage... Also, it sounds vaguely Klingon:
> "We will drink yarak together upon our victory!" et cetera... (Nora)
>
>
> WIKTIONARY  yarak, n. (falconry) A super-alert state where a bird is
> hungry, but not weak, and ready to hunt.
> 1 point because I saw some raptors last weekend. (Fran)
> 2 points.  I'm out of reasons to not vote for this one, so two points.
> (Elliott)
> I know that falconry has words like this, and suspect that it probably has
> one for specifically this, but "yarak" doesn't feel likely. All the words
> in falconry come from Latin and the Germanic predecessors. This feels more
> Oriental.  (Hutch)
>
>
> ANDREW  Yarak, n. A broad, flat basin within the Gobi Desert characterized
> by saldgine clay. [Mongolian, Late 19th Century]
> 1 point. (JC)
>  I'm just dubious about it as a proper noun.  (Hutch)
>  I'd want a lot of convincing before voting for a proper noun.  (Elliott)
>
>
> FRAN  yarak, n. A traditional strawberry meal eaten as part of the spring
> strawberry festival among Northeastern US indigenous peoples.
> 1 point.  (Ranjit)
> 1 point  (Linda)
> 1 point. Apples or Indians? (Pierre)
> 1 point.  (Kir)
> 1 point for yum.  This is a great reason to have a festival.  (Elliott)
> Fran earns one point for her correct guess
>
>
> JC  Yarak, n. (1) A hard ball, made of animal hide, used by the Chulym
> Tatar people of Siberia in the sport of the same name.  (2) A sport,
> similar to polo, indigenous to the Chulym Tatars.
> 1 point.  (Andrew)
> 1 point - had it been spelled with a lower-case "Y", I might have gone for
> it. (Hutch)
> 2 points. I like the idea of a polo-like game of yarak.   (Nora)
> 2 points.  (Kir)
>
>

-- 
Fran Poodry
Physics Educational Technology Specialist
Vernier Software and Technology
AMTA Past President 2013-2014
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