High Eolic word of the day: circur

circur (noun): dozen, twelve men; team.

tána circura-linámbassut lersá cúmarsangúyendura-láyatan
only team-harvest.ATTR.DEF arrive wagon.grain.GEN-two.ANTESS
“the harvest team brought in only two wagons of grain”

The number twelve (or ‘dozen’) is extremely prominent in Eolic culture, forming the base for the number of many groups in social organization. A common “work team” is composed of twelve people, and other group numbers are often formed on the basis of multiples of 12 (such as the mbámarn ‘wolf’s sons’, a military unit composed of 360 men).

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