This is the letter 'D'. Pronounced 'dih' as in 'dog' or 'skid', not 'drip'.This letter represents the shoreline- a very important region in Eiani culture as it marks the joining of the water with the water-less. This symbol begins the word 'dadei', meaning 'land'.
The actual pictograph that is here simplified was that of a wave breaking onshore. The horizontal line at the bottom may either symbolize the beach or also water. This seems to only remove further definition (as seem by the speakers of Sennin) between land and water at the shoreline.
No comments:
Post a Comment