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Lexicon:Modern/Jwygaen

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Jwygaen
Stage Modern CLT
Pronunciation /ˈdʒwɪgaɪn/
Part of speech Noun
Etymology from Middle Jugān, from Proto jugun (Korean 주군), diverged from Jugōr — the formal/distant variant for non-owner free people
Related words Jor, daes

Jwygaen — free people, spoken of as a class. The formal register.

Notes

What a magistrate’s clerk writes and what a philosopher says in a lecture hall. Nobody uses it in a kitchen.

Neutral as it stands. The Spraecha does not carry gender by default and marks it only when it matters, a habit inherited from a time when nobody could see who they were talking to. Add da- for a man or ma- for a woman where the distinction is doing work.