Anakuuxon

Anakuuxon is an ancient language of merfolk species, Anakikupa, who had tentacles instead of fins. While these creatures are no longer found in Mirror's Deep, out of ruins of their ancient city's under the Drannor Dalsein some of their writing have been found.

Known idioms

When researching for Anakuuxon, scholars have managed to find several curious idioms, that tell about the life of the octopus-people. These findings have excited the researcher community. Found idioms include:

Air-headed

Where in common "air-heads" are considered little ditzy, for anakikupa, it means suicidal and foolhardy. These merfolks can only carry on limited time out of the water, so air is considered by them to be "poisonous".

Blue-blood, red-blood

No, they aren't speaking of royalty, they are referring to their kind - the blood of the speakers was blue like one of octopus, and as such, it is useful differentiation between different types of people. Sometimes also form of mockery.

Seahorse

Particularly caring fathers among speakers were lovingly called seahorses, as seahorse males take care of the young.

Wrapped too tight, a wrap

Person who is being clingy.

Bright as coral

Being flamboyant or eye-catching (both positive and negative connotations).

Tentacles on a knot

Someone being clumsy.

Handful

4 or less. Anakikupas only have 4 fingers.

Having one's hearts on their tentacles

someone being greedy.

Like droplets on the shore

Being doomed.

Echo in wawes

Rumor going around, similar to "little bird told me"

Mixing salts

Confusing things to one another or trying to connect things without connection.

Like guppies in the flock

a person or persons who follow orders/examples exactly. Both negative and positive connotations.

Geographical Distribution

The language was once prominent in Mirror's Deep. It is currently unknown if any native speakers exists anymore.

Vocabulary

While there are still many things to crack about this ancient language, there is already some progress of retrieving the lost vocabulary. Some of the words from Anakuuxon that have been discovered include:

Nouns

Anak

Person

Iapak

Animal

Ikupan

Sea

Imik

Plant

Oikun

Water

Verbs

Aaim

To shine

Eekor

To hold

Noox

To swell, to grow

Eex

To finish, to stop

Oorux

To go

Pronouns

Aak

Me, I

Uuk

You (singular)

Iek

They (definite form, person)

Oopak

It (definite form, living)

Oop

It (definite form, lifeless)

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Credits were credit is due; Thank you for lovely people in the #summercamp-challenge chat at Discord helping me gather such an amazing collection of cool idioms!