High Eolic word of the day: rás

rás (noun): brown; brown-eyed, dark-eyed; pessimist.

ca mbertacam púsa-rás-al
I own.IMPERF.1.TRANS horse-brown-ACC
“I own a brown horse”

rás most generally means brown in color, but metonymically it can also mean ‘brown-eyed’ or ‘dark-eyed’. By extension, it has come to mean ‘pessimist’ – in referring to someone who only sees darkness in life, due to the unfortunate fact of their eye color, which is not considered especially beautiful or aesthetically pleasing by Eolians (as opposed to having blue eyes).

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