Lexicon:Modern/Siknei

Siknei
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈsik.neɪ/
Part of speech	Noun; Verb
Etymology	from middle CRT siksnīnē, from Proto siksnain
Related words	Oethboend, Nyvra, Voelrei

Siknei — sexual union. The ordinary word for the act, and to perform it.

Notes

Neutral in every register. A physician writes it, a magistrate records it in a marriage contract, and two people in a tavern use the same word. There is no polite alternative and no crude one, and the Known World does not find the subject delicate enough to require either.

It was a number once, and had already stopped being a joke long before it reached the Tongue.