<div dir="ltr">Strawberry festival:<div><a href="http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles%20Published/03%20NA%20Native%20American/02%20Strawberry/na_02_Srawberry.html">http://www.islandbreath.org/TheGobbler/Articles%20Published/03%20NA%20Native%20American/02%20Strawberry/na_02_Srawberry.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>-Fran</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Jim Moskowitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jimmosk.com" target="_blank">jim@jimmosk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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!<br>
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General comments:<br>
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)<br>
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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)<br>
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I am keeping my optional 1 point for myself. Not for my fictionition, but for me, because I want a point. (Fran_<br>
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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)<br>
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LINDA yarak, n. A felted boot.<br>
2 points for reminding me of yurts. (Ranjit)<br>
2 points. (Andrew)<br>
2 points. Short and simple. (Nick)<br>
1 point. (JC)<br>
2 points. (Matt)<br>
1 point. Simple and straightforward. (Nora)<br>
2 points. (Jean-Joseph)<br>
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JEAN-JOSEPH yarak, adj. Prone to excessive blinking.<br>
1 point. (Andrew)<br>
1 point. (Matt)<br>
1 point. The thing needs a name, for sure, but ``yarak'' just doesn't sound right for it. (Elliott)<br>
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MATT yarak, n. An Aboriginal tool for digging insects out of trees.<br>
1 point (Ranjit)<br>
1 point. "A finger." (David)<br>
1 point. (Pierre)<br>
1 point. (Jean-Joseph)<br>
Aboriginal Australian? How likely is it to end in a k? (Elliott)<br>
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NICK yarak, n. (fr. Ar.) A log for recording nightly astronomical observations.<br>
It was too cloudy here in southwestern Virginia to see the total lunar eclipse last night. :-( (Hutch)<br>
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)<br>
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DAVID yarak, n. (fr. Turkish) The rose-petal dross discarded in the manufacture of attar of roses.<br>
2 points. (JC)<br>
2 points and the bagasse award. (Pierre)<br>
1 point. (Jean-Joseph)<br>
1 point. Rose bagasse! What is attar of roses? OE ator `venom', like in ``attercop''? Another Turkish word? A complete fabrication? (Elliott)<br>
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ELLIOTT yarak, n. The practice of recording a contract by storing identical copies in mated parrots.<br>
2 points for being hilarious. (Fran)<br>
Braaack! Polly wants a ... party of the first part *LMAO* (Hutch)<br>
Sounds Elliotic.<br>
This has the ring of Elliott. (Jean-Joseph)<br>
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)<br>
Elliott earns 2 points for his correct guess<br>
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PIERRE yarak, n. A drink made from fermented dates, drunk by Assyrians to celebrate the new moon.<br>
2 points. It should be this. (David)<br>
1 point for rare source language. (Nick)<br>
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)<br>
2 points. (Linda)<br>
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)<br>
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WIKTIONARY yarak, n. (falconry) A super-alert state where a bird is hungry, but not weak, and ready to hunt.<br>
1 point because I saw some raptors last weekend. (Fran)<br>
2 points. I'm out of reasons to not vote for this one, so two points. (Elliott)<br>
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)<br>
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ANDREW Yarak, n. A broad, flat basin within the Gobi Desert characterized by saldgine clay. [Mongolian, Late 19th Century]<br>
1 point. (JC)<br>
I'm just dubious about it as a proper noun. (Hutch)<br>
I'd want a lot of convincing before voting for a proper noun. (Elliott)<br>
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FRAN yarak, n. A traditional strawberry meal eaten as part of the spring strawberry festival among Northeastern US indigenous peoples.<br>
1 point. (Ranjit)<br>
1 point (Linda)<br>
1 point. Apples or Indians? (Pierre)<br>
1 point. (Kir)<br>
1 point for yum. This is a great reason to have a festival. (Elliott)<br>
Fran earns one point for her correct guess<br>
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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.<br>
1 point. (Andrew)<br>
1 point - had it been spelled with a lower-case "Y", I might have gone for it. (Hutch)<br>
2 points. I like the idea of a polo-like game of yarak. (Nora)<br>
2 points. (Kir)<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Fran Poodry</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Physics Educational Technology Specialist</div>
<div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Vernier Software and Technology</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">AMTA Past President 2013-2014</div></div>
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