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Frizdoeen
Stage Modern CLT
Pronunciation /ˈfɾiz.dɔɪn/
Part of speech Noun
Etymology from frizzei and doeenei
Related words frizzei, doeenei, Waendra, Oetfolk, Haeldi

Frizdoeen — the cities’ word for an escaped slave living in the frontier bands.

Notes

Built from frizzei, an unruly person or a thistle, and doeenei, to take by stealth. It names her as stolen goods and blames her for having been difficult, which is the whole of what a city thinks about the matter. The theft was committed by the property, and the property was defective to begin with.

They do not use it of themselves. A band member asked what they are gives the name of the band, which is the nearest thing they have to a Famrae. There is no word in the Spraecha for what they are collectively, because the only people who need one are the people they left.