Elcar

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:47 am

With its root word becoming limited to another one? I assume that definition (1) above is directly connected to the word "husband" (as head of a household).

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Glenn

eodrakken · Post by **eodrakken** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:09 pm

Yeah. In Webster's, if a word is an obvious derivation from the previous entry, they don't give a separate etymology, which is the case with "husbandry". Therefore it does derive from "husband". In case anyone isn't sure, the logical meaning of "husbandry" is just "behavior of a husband".

-ry is a fairly archaic suffix. If such a word were coined today, I think we'd make it a verb and call it "husbanding".

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:58 pm

Thanks. Interestingly enough; meaning (2) above (to conserve, manage, be economical) survives to the present day in an expression I've encountered, albeit rarely: to "husband one's resources."

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Glenn

So Haleza Grise · Post by **So Haleza Grise** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 11:50 pm

I've been meaning to ask this one for a while, but it slipped my mind:

what about inter-elcarin warfare? If their sense of murth is as strong as you suggest, does this mean that there is rivalry between different groups of elcari? Or is it a species-wide (or subspecies-wide - ie. directed against the murtanin scourge) solidarity?

Such a war must get pretty bloody . . .

Post by **zompist** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:35 am

So Haleza Grise wrote:what about inter-elcarin warfare? If their sense of murth is as strong as you suggest, does this mean that there is rivalry between different groups of elcari? Or is it a species-wide (or subspecies-wide - ie. directed against the murtanin scourge) solidarity?

Such a war must get pretty bloody . . .

It's not unknown, but it's rare. An actual war between different elcarin habitats is pretty impractical; it'd be like a war between the Alps and the Caucasus. However, under unusual circumstances, there have been civil wars within one settlement.

An example: Some 7000 years ago, a group of elcari fleeing the m?rtani arrived in a khat, and the king gave them a depopulated excavation and the adjacent valleys to live in. After the war with the m?rtani ended, it's said that the king missed the authority he had during wartime. He began to agitate against the newcomers, alternately demanding gifts and accusing them of crimes. Ultimately a vein of silver was discovered in their territory, and the king claimed it as his own. The newcomers vowed to fight for it.

At first the king had little support among his own people; but then the newcomers invited countrymen of their own to help them, and many of the king's people perceived this as an invasion and were willing to go to war.

Both sides fought for about a year, until wise elders prevailed upon the two leaders to decide the issue by single combat. The king was defeated, and things pretty much settled down. Although there was resentment on both sides, it was also agreed that the king had been mad. It also helped that the newcomers were willing to share a quarter of the silver lode, and a few intermarriages helped calm things down for good.