Usuario:King of Herdaz/Curses and Phrases

This page lists curses, phrases, terms, and sayings used by people on the different worlds of the cosmere and beyond, as well as, where known, their meanings. I would eventually like to put this information on the individual world pages. Feel free to edit this page and add any more you know of.

For those who want to help: as a general rule, if there exists a page for that word/phrase in this usage (or it should exist but doesn't) then it does not belong on this list. This would not exclude things like Stormfather! since in that usage it is not referring to the Stormfather himself rather it is simply referring to the common exclamation.

Being as the intention is to eventually organize these by nation as well as planet, where applicable (known and relevant) please indicate for each entry where it originates/is used.

If you have any questions I can be reached on the Coppermind Discord or directly as King of Herdaz.

Cosmere

Roshar

Alethi

• Almighty above
• By the Almighty’s tenth name
• Almighty, cast from heaven to dwell in our hearts
• may the winds treat you well
  (good luck/goodbye)
• what [storming] storm brought <something>?
  ("where did <something> come from?", very surprised or sarcastic)

Azish/Makabaki

• Kadasixes
• Yaezir
• Tashi
• Praise Yaezir
• If the Prime Kadasix may provide

Bav

• Dustmother
• Kurp
  a child

Herdazian

• winds know
  (Herdazian? (used by Palona): similar to real-life "heaven knows")
• gancho
• gon
• Herdies
  (slang for Herdazians)
• moolie
  (mute)
• mancha
  (greeting)
• chortana
  (woman? used to refer to Jasnah)
• naco
• penhito
• hooch

Purelaker

• Vun Makak
• Nu Ralik
• lakefish
• Sun and tides send it!

Riran

• "Today we will not need to scrub the walls, and the life will be as white as a sun at night!"
  (idiom)
• Viim cachi eko
  (something related to feeling cold)
• By the Brightcaller's rays

Singer/Listener

• warpair
• warleader
  (Listener general?)
• ulo mas vara
  (roughly translates as Monster of the Chasms)

Shin

• He who adds
  (honorific for a farmer)
• He who takes away
  (pejorative for someone who kills)
• Tan balo ken tala
  (likely a greeting)
• "Your words are like the hundred doves"
  "Easy to release, difficult to keep"
  -Szeth and Taravangian
  (proverb)
• Glories within
• Stones Unhallowed
  (A curse used by Szeth, but also used to describe the stones of Urithiru)
• kukori
  (a manner of speaking?)
• stonewalker
  (term for people who walk on stone, i.e. the rest of Roshar.)
• aboshi
  (divine honorific; often used when speaking to Heralds)
• Winds of Fortune guide you

Thaylen

• passions
• tyvnk
  (sullen)
• Shaylor mkabat nour
  (The winds have brought us safely.)
• Mkai bade fortenthis!
  (meaning unknown.)

Unkalaki

• airsick lowlander
• Kali'kalin'da
• Kali'kalin's ghost
• holetental
  (the Knights Radiant?)
• tuanalikina
  (fourth son or younger)
• Uma'ami tukuma mafah'liki
  (phrase of respect towards spren)
• Blessed gods of sea and stone
• Your soup is cold
  (idiom, "You are all stupid". Possibly satire.)
• afah'liki
  (spren)
• ali'i'kamura
• alaii'iku
  (Rock identifies as this; related to being able to see spren)
• ana'kai
• tuma'alki
• mafah'liki
• alil'tiki'i
• Umalakai'ki! Kama mohoray namavau-
  (something like "Somebody be helping me get him down! Is still alive! We need ladder and knife! Hurry!" Rock cut himself off while saying this and switched to Alethi)
• humaka'aban
  (Unkalaki beard)
• Uli'tekanaki
• kaluk'i'iki
  (something only a woman can be)

Veden

• Tet
  (honorific for a second son)
• broken stone
  (used by Shallan: a moot point, something no longer relevant)

Aimian

• Blight it all

General and unknown origin/specifics

• Stormfather
• Stormfather, Kelek, and the Almighty himself!
• Damnation
• what in Damnation's eleventh name
• what in the Halls
• storms
• Ash's eyes
• Shalashian temperament
• Kalak's breath
• Kalak's tongue
• Kelek
• what in Kelek's name
• Kelek preserve us
• for Kelek's sake
• Kelek knows
• what in Kelek's tongue
• Kelek speed their way
• swear to Kelek himself
• Pali's mind
• Pailiah knew...
• Vedeledev's golden keys
• sweet wisdom of Battar
• Nalan's hands
• Nalan send...
• Taln's palms
• Taln's nails
• Talat's hand
• Three Gods
• By Ishi, herald of luck
• Ishi be praised
• Ishar's soul
• Storming Mother of the World and Father of Storms above!
• cremhole
• deevy
  ("Incredible or neat in a smooth way")
• rocksplitter
• mossing
  (using firemoss)
• Mother!
  (Cultivation?)
• deathline
  (the front line of bridgemen carrying a bridge during a bridge run.)
• Bless the Heralds
• Stormwinds
• Garnet lit tongue
• dunnard
  (equivalent of dullard, presumably related to "dun" spheres)
• drynets
  (curse used by sailors.)
• gloombringer
• ledgerworm
  (a scribe)
• moonheight
  (the time when one of the moons is the highest in the sky?)
• stormlands
  (unoccupied barren parts of Roshar.)
• stormleavings
  (debris left after a highstorm has passed. Also used as an insult or adjective to describe someone or something worthless.)
• stormpause
  (a break in the cycle of highstorms.)
• stormtop
  (the top of a highstorm.)
• stormward
  (The direction from which highstorms come; eastward.)
• riddens
  (aftermath of a storm)
• shellheads
  (term used by humans to refer to the singers)
• shalashian
• In the name of all heaven
• Blood of my fathers
• starvin’
• Heralds send
• Battah send (them) some sense
• Chana help (them)
• Chana knows...
• nanha
  (honorific for a married woman.)
• aven begah
• Unseen
  (Capitalized by Nohadon in The Way of Kings, but I do not know if this is significant.)
• smells worse than a Horneater's boots in the winter.
• Almighty send
• blood of my ancestors

Scadrial

Era 1

• Lord Ruler!
• By the forgotten gods
• By the First Contract
• Sure as the Lord Ruler
• Twixt

A liaison between thieving crews.

Era 2

• Rust and Ruin
• Harmony
• By the Survivor's scars!
• Oh Survivor of Mists
• What in the Survivor’s Deadly Name
• Harmony’s forearms
• Lord of Harmony
• Rust on my arms
• Now we're burning
• Pound a brittle metal
• Take that with a pinch of copper
• Cold as iron
• Let's melt this down and forge it
• Bad alloys like him
• You could hit his steel against flint all night and not get a spark
• Soother's sense
• She was an odd alloy
• Preservation's Wings
• Oh, God Beyond
• Sure as Ruin
• Rusts
• Rusting
• What in Harmony’s wrists
• Rusting iron on a hillside
• Holy Survivor
• Sweet Harmonies
• Wisp hunt
• Ashfalls
• Burn our metals
• What in the name of the lost metal
• How in Harmony’s True Name
• Trell’s soul
• What in Ruin’s name
• By the Father and the First Contract
• Harmony’s Bands
• Harmony’s Rings
• Tough metal to swallow
• in the alloy of

Nalthis

• Colors
• Austre, god of colors
• Kalad’s phantoms!
• Lord of Colors!
• Colors-cursed
• That will be crimson to break
• Eat the wrong flower
• Green from the ground
• You've got red on your ears
• Like fresh blue paint on a wall
• Like white on black
• I'd bet my red life on it
• [Someone/something] feels like another color altogether
• By the Colors

Taldain

Darkside

• Shella

Dayside

• sands
• Zensha
• traid'ka
• aisha
• ker'naisha totar'kersha

Karshad: May the Sand Lord bless us.

• sifting through my sand
• lonsha
• eedsha
• ry'kel
• KanLisht

Threnody

• shadows!
• God Beyond
• What in helmore!
• Bloody helmore
• By Purity's Eye

First of the Sun

• Father

A reverential reference to Patji.

• It's deathants!

A reference to the insects, meaning an unsuspected danger.

Sel

• Merciful Domi
• Idos Domi
• Kolo
• Burning Domi
• Gracious Domi
• Domi curse it
• Great Jaddeth Below
• By Doloken
• Burning Doloken
• Days
• Days alight
• Nights
• Nights afire
• Mother of light
• kayana, sule?
• Unknown God
• DeluseDoo

Duladel: loosely translates as "angered for being insulted".

• Rag Domi!

A curse so vile that Sarene only heard it two times before the events of Elantris... but then heard it three times during the book.

• Do

Jindoeese: book.

• Dendo

A common name for a Duladen commoner, alias used by Galladon.

• DoMin

Jindoeese: Domi, or god.

• Doloken

Duladel: hell.

• Hama

Duladel: grandmother.

• Hruggath

An obscene oath in Fjordell; often used with 'Ja,' the shortened, vulgar word for Jaddeth.

• Idos

Aonic: Merciful. Often used when calling on Domi's name.

• Ja

The Vulgar version of 'Jaddeth,' God of the Derethi religion,in Fjordell.

• Kayana

Duladel: insane.

• KuNuKam

Mulla'dil word. Roughly translates to “person with an anus for a mouth.”

• Rulo (feminine: Ruda)

Duladel: unfortunate one.

• Shu

Jindoeese: path of.

• Sule

Duladel: friend.

• Alavanta kamaloo kayana

Non-Cosmere

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

• Shattering Glass
• By the Spire itself

The Reckoners

• Calamity!
• didgeridooing
• sparks
• slontze

Cytoverse

• scud
• What in the stars
• Saints and stars

The Rithmatist

• By the Master
• Dusts be cast aside
• Dusts
• Dusting
• How in the name of the Master

Firstborn

• By the Seal
• Void-cursed