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# an alcoholic beverage
# an alcoholic beverage
#:''Mey Dáré Lífasyám nyam nyámohírné háp tassyá fardadifenors '''kónangám''' gigyasa.''
#:''Mey Dáré Lífasyám nyam nyámohírné háp tassyá fardadifenors '''kónangám''' gigyase.''
#:: ''In Dár Lífasyám there's a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages.''
#:: ''In Dár Lífasyám there's a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages.''
# ''(dialectal or archaic)'' mead
# ''(dialectal or archaic)'' mead

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Lifashian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with English honey.

Pronunciation

(Standard) IPA: [ˈkoːnæŋ]

Noun

kónang m (1st declension, pl. kónangi)

  1. an alcoholic beverage
    Mey Dáré Lífasyám nyam nyámohírné háp tassyá fardadifenors kónangám gigyase.
    In Dár Lífasyám there's a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
  2. (dialectal or archaic) mead
    So sasé kónangom egiríyat.
    The guest received mead.

Inflection

Usage notes

The word kónang and its adjective kónangsyás are used to refer to alcoholic beverages or alcohol in food; for alcohol in any other context the corresponding words are the noun alkol and the adjective alkolíyás.

Derived terms

Related terms