Lexicon:Modern/Baidaes
| Baidaes | |
|---|---|
| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbaɪdaɪs/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle baiodāsē, from baio and Dāsē |
| Related words | Baiwy, daes, akhei, aida |
Baidaes — a slave’s papers; the written account of who has held her and what is known of her.
Notes
A Baiwy for a person who cannot give one. Where a free person speaks their own account and is believed or not on their standing, a slave’s is written by other people, held by her owner, and added to at every sale. She has no voice in it and may never read it.
What it carries: her owners in order, the route by which she was enslaved, any crime she was sentenced for, and what she was taught before and after. Auction houses add their own records to it, and a Baidaes with a gap in it is worth asking about.
It stays with the owner. She carries nothing on an errand, because her collar answers for her in the street and the paper is not hers.