Lexicon:Modern/Fwykoel

Fwykoel
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈfwɪ.kɔɪl/
Part of speech	Noun
Etymology	from Middle fulfillēkolarith, from fulfillē and Kolarith
Related words	Koeler, Fwylfa, Sigring

Fwykoel — the closed circle; the mark of a person who was a slave and is not one now.

Notes

Built from Fwylfa and Koeler, and worn down hard from a much longer word, as anything said at every manumission will be.

The Fwylfa half says the obligation was discharged, which is the world’s account of what manumission is. It is accurate for a debt slave and a sentenced criminal and quietly untrue of everybody else, since a woman who submitted voluntarily never owed anything and neither did a war captive. Nobody remarks on this.

Worn for life. It does not erase the history, it records it, and anyone who looks sees both halves at once.