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'''Geran''' ([[Olgish Languages|Olgish]] ''Gäran'' [ˈgɛ.ɾɑn], English also [ˈʤɛ.ɹɑn]) is one of the seven major regions of [[Elondor]], located between the rivers [[Ilathw]] and [[Kalpa]]. Adjacent to both the [[Olgish Peoples|Olgish]] and the [[Aribelians|Aribelian]] domain of influence, it was a space of encounter between peoples for most of its history and is considered the homeland of the [[Kalparians]], [[Norians]], [[Yamenaens]], and [[Wertians|Wertian Olgs]] and often thought the place of origin of the Aribelian people. | '''Geran''' ([[Olgish Languages|Olgish]] ''Gäran'' [ˈgɛ.ɾɑn], English also [ˈʤɛ.ɹɑn]) is one of the seven major regions of [[Elondor]], located between the rivers [[Ilathw]] and [[Kalpa]]. Adjacent to both the [[Olgish Peoples|Olgish]] and the [[Aribelians|Aribelian]] domain of influence, it was a space of encounter between peoples for most of its history and is considered the homeland of the [[Kalparians]], [[Norians]], [[Yamenaens]], and [[Wertians|Wertian Olgs]] and often thought the place of origin of the Aribelian people. | ||
==Etymology and Names== | ==Etymology and Names== | ||
The oldest known mention of the name is found in the inscription on the [[Menhir of Nambara]], dated to the | The oldest known mention of the name is found in the inscription on the [[Menhir of Nambara]], dated to the 10th century B.E.B., which credits [[Nambara]], then ruler of a petty kingdom along the lower Ilathw, with | ||
<blockquote>''engeli lendes nærth Iglethi Gæran-kôrethin''<br/>‘a great victory (or many victories)<ref>In the [[Olgish Dialects|Ebrinine dialect]] of [[Early Old Olgish]], ''engel'' (''jengíl'' in the [[Olgish Dialects|dialect of Soskilón]]) could denote either size or quantity, and number was not yet consistently marked on nouns, ''lendes'' ‘battle’ being a singular form (cf. ''lendis'' in Soskilón). The ''‑i'' suffix has been variably interpreted as either signifying plural to ''engel'', yielding a meaning closer to ‘many battles’, as an elative suffix, creating ‘a very great battle’, or as actually part of a second word ''ilendes'', then meaning ‘a great slaughter’.</ref> against the Iglethi of the Gæran-heath’</blockquote> | <blockquote>''engeli lendes nærth Iglethi Gæran-kôrethin''<br/>‘a great victory (or many victories)<ref>In the [[Olgish Dialects|Ebrinine dialect]] of [[Early Old Olgish]], ''engel'' (''jengíl'' in the [[Olgish Dialects|dialect of Soskilón]]) could denote either size or quantity, and number was not yet consistently marked on nouns, ''lendes'' ‘battle’ being a singular form (cf. ''lendis'' in Soskilón). The ''‑i'' suffix has been variably interpreted as either signifying plural to ''engel'', yielding a meaning closer to ‘many battles’, as an elative suffix, creating ‘a very great battle’, or as actually part of a second word ''ilendes'', then meaning ‘a great slaughter’.</ref> against the Iglethi of the Gæran-heath’</blockquote> | ||
The ''Iglethi'' ‘people of thirst’ are thought to refer to the [[Yamenaens|proto-Yamenaen]] [[Western Kattasi Peoples|Kattasi]] settlers who from ca. 1600 B.E.B. had begun to expand into the [[Geranian Heath]] | The ''Iglethi'' ‘people of thirst’ are thought to refer to the [[Yamenaens|proto-Yamenaen]] [[Western Kattasi Peoples|Kattasi]] settlers who from ca. 1600 B.E.B. had begun to expand into the [[Geranian Heath]], in the process driving out the native [[Geranians|Geranian]] population, and by Nambara’s time were threatening Olgish and Aribelian settlements along the Ilathw; the name ''Gæran'' itself, however, is presumably much older and originates in the [[Common Geranian|common language of the Geranians]]. It most likely derives from a Common Geranian root ''*gyār-'' ‘extension, reach, plain’ (hence Kal. ''kear'' ‘bed, range’ and Haj. ''gor'' ‘plain, field, garden’), either with the [[Olgish Languages|Olgish]] nominalizing suffix ''‑an'', or directly from a form ''*gyārhāɲ'' ‘plain of heather’. The extent of the area so denoted is not known, and it can be presumed that the term was applied somewhat loosely to any region north of the Ilathw, or, by extension, north of [[Belkondíl]]. | ||
In Olgish, the term is usually rendered as '''Gäran''' or '''Geran''', becoming '''Géran''' or '''Géryn''' in [[Wertian Language|Wertian]]. The Kattasi themselves called the land '''Oṣṣale''' ‘north’, referring to its location north(west) of their ancestral kingdoms in the western [[Reknayan Mountains|Reknaya]]. After the foundation of [[Kingdom of Yamenna|Yamenna]], this term was applied to the lands even further north and survives as the region of [[Oshale]] in southern [[Aribel]]. | In Olgish, the term is usually rendered as '''Gäran''' or '''Geran''', becoming '''Géran''' or '''Géryn''' in [[Wertian Language|Wertian]]. The Kattasi themselves called the land '''Oṣṣale''' ‘north’, referring to its location north(west) of their ancestral kingdoms in the western [[Reknayan Mountains|Reknaya]]. After the foundation of [[Kingdom of Yamenna|Yamenna]], this term was applied to the lands even further north and survives as the region of [[Oshale]] in southern [[Aribel]]. | ||