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[Loud Whispers]

There's run, but no flee or escape... Suppose they only ever need to keep running forwards

[Garath]

it's called blindly charging onwards.

[Awessum Possum]

No word for home/dwelling or dwarf.

[Owlbread]

I was noticing such things as I was naming the clans in my fortress.

They can only count to three.  Each hand, and their mouth?

They have a word of "first" and none for "second" or higher.  Perhaps this is because everyone wants to be the first to grab something or to run out the door when there is danger, and everyone else is just "not first", or maybe "first now" (that the one ahead of me is done).

"First" is "uthar", which makes a very nice name for the founders: MacUthar.

I don't know if you'd be interested, but in Gaelic languages, that would actually mean "Son of Uthar" or Son of the First.

We should make a comprehensive list to be translated and added into the dictionary. Is there an actual dwarfish dictionary on the internet somewhere?

Dwarves have no word for warrior, battlement, tremor, ripple, grandfather/grandmother/grandparents, niece, nephew, flagon, continent or planet.

[Noodz]

There is no dwarven word for "victory".  While that makes sense (since the dwarves have never experienced it), there is also no word for "defeat".

Nobody ever survives long enough to come up with a word for it.

If you don't know victory, how can you know defeat? Getting acquainted with the wrong end of a spear may not be defeat for the dwarfs, only death for that individual.

But afaik there is a word for failure, so there are no defeats nor victories, only failures.

[King DZA]

Despite all of the twisted, fucked up things that happen in the many worlds of Dwarf Fortress, I'm surprised they don't have a word for "Monstrous".

[Blizzlord]

They have a word for hell ([T_WORD:HELL:shash]) but not one for demon.