Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Word -Eyas

"Looks like a knife, feels like a knife. Pretty sure its a knife, Yorvet."
Yorvet shook his head. "You are such an eyas, Kolt."
"I'm surprised you want to keep me around then." he snapped.
"You'll understand if you actually listen to me."
"Yah, since it's been working so well before."
"You haven't listened yet, Kolt."
Kolt exhaled and pulled out the knife. Why should he have needed to listen? They didn't listen to his demands to take him home, he had no reason to listen to this mercenary group. "Why then, can't you use this knife?"
"Because its yours."
Kolt rolled his eyes. "Like that would stop you from taking it."

Eyas -an unfledged bird; specifically : a nestling hawk.

Added Info - "Eyas" is a funny-sounding word that exists because of a mistake. In the 15th century, Middle English speakers made an incorrect assumption about the word neias, which comes from the Anglo-French niais ("fresh from the nest"). A neias sounding like an eias to their ears, so the word lost that initial "n," eventually becoming "eyas." (There are other words in English that were created in this same fashion; for example, "an apron" used to be "a napron.") The change in spelling may have been suggested by other Middle English words like eyI ("egg") and eyry, which was a spelling of "aerie," the hawk's nest where an eyas would be found.

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