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Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 2:23 pm
There's a word that I've encountered several times when reading fantasy fiction. I like this word and would like to use it in my own writing. Alas, because I'm hearing the word in audio books, I've no idea how it's spelled. I've looked all over the net using different spellings to no avail.
The word seems to mean a charge or obligation or quest set upon someone that must be carried out. Some readers pronounce it gay us and some pronounce it guy us. Ex. We would tarry with you, my new companions, but the Great Lord Boledon has laid upon us this gayus to find the lost treasure of Thesore, and so we must be gone from here to Sinalot where we believe it is hidden.
Anyone know what this word might be?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 2:37 pm
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Is it from the same author? Could be a word made up in a certain universe. Like Maester in A song of Ice and Fire.
What book are you seeing it in?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 2:38 pm
geas
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 2:40 pm
If the author says "eh" a lot, then it would be a Canada geas.
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 3:02 pm
Ye thanks. The word is geas. Now I have to think. The word appears to be Irish. So would it throw my readers off to have an African grisha lay a geas on someone?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 3:06 pm
I don't know. Are grisha's migratory?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 3:21 pm
And can they carry a coconut?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
February 15, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(February 15, 2017 at 3:04 pm)Jesster Wrote: (February 15, 2017 at 3:02 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Ye thanks. The word is geas. Now I have to think. The word appears to be Irish. So would it throw my readers off to have an African grisha lay a geas on someone?
I think it's fine. The word is Irish, but the concept is not theirs alone. Plenty of cultures have myths for things like curses, prophecies, etc. It's used loosely in fantasy stories anyway, as you said before.
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