That Latin you learned. Wanna deploy it? What would the equivalent of equestrian be for dragons? Dracostrian? Looking at the root equester.
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It suffers from the C-Before-E In English problem; looks like it should rhyme with 'traces'.
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yeah, you'd have to spell the final term drakestrian if you wanted to communicate pronunciation to an English speaker
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that's fairly badass though so i'm down
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That.... that doesn't look bad, actually.
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yeah, the spelling divergence gives that tingly worldbuilding feeling of having traced out some linguistic drift
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I feel a K implies it's coming from Greek rather than Latin, but I'm biased by a prof with opinions.
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i mean, it's coming from Greek either way if you kick it hard enough
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I'm bringing
@CarrieCuinn over to this part of my query. She's suggested "dracoviatrian" because of the flight aspect of dragons. - 4 more replies
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for "dragonrider" that is, by analogy with eques
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