Tradespeech
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Below follows a not entirely comprehensive list of words and terms that no longer exist in Galactic Common, but remain in the Alganna Eternity's Tradespeech. Many members of the Eternity, especially when outside of it, frequently make an effort to speak the Common dialect rather than their native one.
- Addle: to confuse; to make sick
- Afear: to frighten
- Alsuch: exactly
- Asunder: apart
- Besmite: to strike; to infatuate
- Betterhood: superiority
- Bid/Bidding; Biddingly: an order; imperative
- Blaster: energy weapon (of any kind)
- Churl/Churlfolk: commoner/s; serf/s; a boor
- Deathling: mortal; worldly
- Deathsman: executioner
- Doom: a legal judgement or decree
- Eighth: eighth; musical octave
- Ere: earlier; before; sooner than
- Erelore: archaeology
- Foreward: a scout
- Fremmed: strange; alien
- Fremmedling: a stranger; an alien; a foreigner
- Fremmedlore: xenology
- Lore: a knowledge; science. When naming a specific science, another word is suffixed by this one, e.g. Erelore
- Ward: guard