Glossary — G
- gaijin
- foreigner, "round-eye" (language=Kyotsu-go)
- galipu
- the animal known for "pawing in the snow" (language=Micmac;
pronunciation=GA-lip-you; that first letter should be a gamma, but it's not
available in common typefaces); usually known as "caribou" (language=Canadian
Français)
- Ganj Dareh
- the Prime Direvnya for the Hubei Region of the Byukan-Hamil Consortium on
the Continent Popovich; population: 1,061,382, with 486,019 adults in its
Collective; Doyle Phoebe Heejanus works as tactician
for its anshinkan combine.
Named after "a 10,000-year-old settlement called Ganj Dareh, in Iran's
Zagros Mountains. This provides the earliest evidence of domesticated
livestock" according to Discover
Magazine, July 2000.
- garblemish
- a smear of scrambled pixels that looks like an inadvertent byproduct of
the virtual environment (language=Yeibichai/slang)
- Gastarbeiter
- guest worker (language=Deutsch); in late-20th-century Deutschland,
the term was applied to foreign workers who immigrated to take jobs because
there are not enough einheimischer Arbeiter (native workers) to fill them.
[Thanks to Jerome Roy of Hamburg as well as the Germanic and Slavic
Languages & Literature Department at University of Colorado]
- gateway/Em-Deh
- a logical connection to the Mirnaya
Direvnya that can be used by other instances of cyberspace to route
correspondence and agents between them; see also port/Em-Deh
(language=Yeibichai/technical
jargon)
- Gatogrebok Con-Hominium
- named after its organizer, Günter Gatogrebok, this loose confederation of
combines wins a lot of
business around Yeibichai
— except on the Continent Popovich; chaperoned from Direvnya Gatogrebok on
Continent Grissom
- gaur
- species of Asian cattle; a team from World
Wildlife Foundation survey searching for specimens; see also kouprey
(language=Tamil)
- gedogen
- cultural tolerance (language=Nederlandic), though the translation
is not precise. As Ellen
Goodman explained in her column, "If the word is not easily
translated, perhaps it is because the concept is so Nederlandic, so
not-American. Gedogen describes a formal condition somewhere
between forbidden and permitted. It is part of the [Nederlandic] dance of
principle and pragmatism. [In The Netherlands,] drugs are gedogen.
They remain illegal, but soft drugs like marijuana and hash are available in
duly licensed coffee shops that dot [Amsterdam]. And here too, euthanasia is
gedogen. The ending of a life by a doctor remains illegal, but
doctors who follow careful guidelines may grant their patients' death
wishes." [The Boston Globe,
via Rocky Mountain News,
sometime in April 1997]
- Gë
- the Earth (language=Ellinika';
pronunciation=ë represents a long E, saying its name); used on Yeibichai
because "credit for the idea that the Earth is spherical is usually
given to Pythagoras (flourished 6th century BCE) and his school, who
reasoned that, because the Moon and the Sun are spherical, the Earth is too.
Notable among other Ellinas (Greek) philosophers, Hipparchus (2nd century
BC) and Aristotle (4th century BC) came to the same conclusion." [Encyclopćdia
Britannica; see cue/www=britannica.com]
- ger
- in the Torah, the term applied to the resident non-Israelite who could no
longer count on the protection of his erstwhile tribe or society (language=Ivrit)
["A Modern Commentary," Rabbi
Gunther Plaut]
- gleest
- intestinal worm (language=Rooski);
on Yeibichai, slang for a
person who invades the bowels of the Mirnaya
Direvnya or any of its components; in 20th-Century parlance, a hacker
- glosso-waggen
- tongue-wagging, rumor-mongering (language=Yeibichai)
from glosso- = Latin from Ellinika'
and waggen = Middle-English
- golpe
- deep center, position in tlaxtli,
where the player cover the back part of the court (language=Olmec)
- goma
- sesame seeds used for seasoning and garnishing; white seeds are known as
shiro goma, and black seeds as kuro goma (language=Kyotsu-go;
pronunciation=GOH-mah) [Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts
by way of The Denver Post]
- gong-gong qi-che
- public bus (language=Zhongwen)
- gong-she
- commune (language=Zhongwen);
on Yeibichai, a place to
live, including food and clothing, while not on contract; provided to all
members of a Collective as part of the Life Principle in the Yeibichai
Pattern Language; also called "sleep-and-eat" and "living off
the Collective"
- gong-shi-tang
- public dining hall (language=Zhongwen);
part of a gong-she
- green street
- From Center for Environmental Structure's A Pattern Language:
"On local roads, closed to through traffic, plant grass all over the
road and set occasional paving stones into the grass to form a surface for
the wheels of those cars that need access to the street. Make no distinction
between street and sidewalk." [Alexander et alia; see Acknowledgments]
- gugelhupf
- coffee ring made in Magyarország (aka Hungary) (language=Magyar)
- gullah jumba
- elephant (Swahili)
- gwira
- beast (language=Nostratic); on Yeibichai,
a predator, muscular bodies with long, sleek sense-heads
ringed with tusks, tawny skin with random patches of dark reddish-brown
speckles, stubby, barbed claws on massive paws, runs in packs; see also phylogeny
on Yeibichai
- gyenge
- poor, as in not good (language=Magyar; pronunciation=djenge) [Magyar-Angol, Angol-Magyar Szótár (Hungarian-English, English-Hungarian Dictionary), edited by Tamás Magay et alia, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc. with Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1972]
