#loraxo is the plural...

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TIME ON KRYPTON

Time measurements on krypton has been mentioned here and there in the past decade but nothing as concrete as whats in this glossary before. Generally the words have matched with the exception of woluo (which was previously said to be 12 woluo to 20 earth minutes) and the "o" instead of "s" plural is new too.

Amzeto, Kryptonian years, have never gotten a name before, but have been defined in conflicting ways in the past (previously reported that 12 amzeto are equivalent to about 17.5 earth years (1.46 to 1), 1.41 amzeto to 1 year, and, agreeing with this glossary, 18 amzeto to about 25 years (1.39 to 1).

For the purposes of this exercise a ratio of 1.41 amzeto to 1 year was used, as that has been repeated previously and is the most exact ratio provided.

Kryptonian Time

100 thribo in 1 dendar 100 dendaro in 1 wolu 10 woluo in 1 zetyar 6 zetyaro in 1 fanff 73 zetyaro in 1 lorax 12 1/6 fanffo in 1 lorax 6 loraxo in 1 amzet 73 fanffo in 1 amzet 438 zetyaro in 1 amzet

Compared to Earth Time

1.41 years in 1 amzet 515.00 days in 1 amzet 85.83 days in 1 lorax 7.05 days in 1 fanff 1.18 days in 1 zetyar 28.22 hours in 1 zetyar 2.82 hours in 1 wolu 169.32 minutes in 1 wolu 1.69 minutes in 1 dendar 101.59 seconds in 1 dendar 1.02 seconds in 1 thrib

so yeah, as they say above, 1 thrib is about equivalent to 1 earth second

Transcribed from the glossaries of Krypton Chronicles (1981). Repeat entries are grouped together.

Before presenting the words and definitions, we'll give a few facts about Kryptonian language and names. We have done our best to translate the Kryptonese words and names into the English alphabet, but this is not always easy, as the Kryptonese alphabet consists of 118 characters, each with a precise sound. A double letter indicates a strong emphasis on the sound. Kryptonese plurals are created by adding an O to the word, as we add an S in English. Some are given below. Kryptonian men used hyphenated names, like Jor-El and Jax-Ur, the last part of the name being the family name, or surname. Women used the father's full name as a surname, except for orphans such as Lesla-Lar (see her name in the listing below). There are also 11 characters for the numerical system. Their zero is used only for the purpose of indicating a zero, while 10 has a special character of its own. Using the Roman X to stand for it, we could say that X=10, 1X=20, 2X=30, and so on. 100 is 9X, 101-X1, 110-XX, and 111 is the first three-digit number. The calendar is quite different from our own, since 18 Kryptonian years equal 25 Earth years. As the aging process was the same there, a Kryptonian was fully grown at the age of 15. Now, on to the definitions.

ALURA: 1) Wife of Zor-El and mother of Supergirl. 2) Wife of Zor-El and mother of Supergirl. See Zor-El and Argo City.

AMPAR: Commander, captain, or chief officer.

AR-GO: One of the best seamen of his time until the vessel he commanded was sunk, as recorded in this issue (2).

ARGO CITY: A city on the west coast of Lurvan (q.v.). Under a plastic dome erected by Zor-El, it miraculously survived the explosion that destroyed Krypton. Many years later, its people were destroyed by Kryptonite, except for Zor-El, [Alura], and Kara (Supergirl), who had been born there after Krypton's death. See Kara and Zor-El.

BETHGAR: A ruler; roughly equivalent to our King or Emperor.

BOKOS: An island populated by thieves, who outlawed honesty and legalized what were deemed crimes elsewhere. Bokos did not join the Kryptonian federation, but remained independent till Krypton died.

BRENN BIR: A criminal who joined with two friends, Vas Quor and Kyl-lbo, to terrorize Kandor when they acquired super-powers from contact with an old crony, Ak-Var. Ak had just been released from the Phantom Zone, and had been affected by Red Kryptonite, which always has unpredictable effects on Kryptonians. Ak-Var helped Superman defeat his former pals. For more on him, see under Van Zee.

BUR-EL: An ancestor of Superman who lived five generations after Krypton's Great Flood. His story is told in KRYPTON CHRONICLES #3.

BYTHGAR: The feminine form of Bethgar; equivalent to Queen of Empress.

DANDAHU OCEAN: Krypton's largest ocean; east of Urrika and west of Lurvan.

DENDARO: Plural of DENDAR, a Kryptonian "minute" consisting of 100 THRIBO, the equivalent of Earth seconds.

DROTHO: Plural of Droth, a type of large sea-bird that fed chiefly on Silten.

DRYGUR: 1) A word meaning "leader, roughly equivalent to our "president' 2) Leader; equivalent of an Earth governor or president.

DRYGUR MOLIOM: The leader of the Science Council (See Maliam.)

EL: An ancient Kryptonese word meaning Star.

ERKOL: 1) Oldest city on Krypton. After a war with another city state, Xan, lasting 200 years. Erkol was destroyed. However, many of its people survived to wipe out Xan and rebuild. The city still existed when Krypton exploded. 2) The oldest city on Krypton, founded in ancient times on the continent of Urrika. 3) The oldest city on Krypton. Twice destroyed, it was rebuilt each time and survived until Krypton's destruction.

FANFF: Six days, making a Kryptonian "week".

FANFFO: Plural of FANFF.

FIRE FALLS: One of the natural wonders of Krypton, coking like a waterfall made of fire.

GRAHU: An artificial material, somewhat like plastic, but much stronger, used for building on Krypton.

GRAHU-HUT: A portable shelter made of grahu.

GOLD KRYPTONITE: An isotope of Kryptonite. Instead of killing Kryptonians, as Green Kryptonite can do, it removes their super-powers permanently.

HAL-VU: A leading statesman of Erkol at the time of the Kryptonian Federation.

HATUAR: The Kryptonian word for ASBESTOS, named for Hatu-El.

HIAZ: A liquid measure used in ancient Krypton. It was somewhere between one pint and one-half liter.

JOR-EL II:

KAL-EL: Superman's Kryptonian name, as well as the name of his ancestor, Erkol-El's son. Kal means Child; hence, Kal-El means Star Child.

JES-MO: Kandor's chief weapons scientist during the Last War

JOR-EL I: Superman's grandfather, a famous scientist

JOR-EL II: 1) Superman's father, son of Jor-El 3) Superman's father, son of Jor-El I. Both were famous scientists of Krypton.

JURU: A valley on the continent of Lurvan. The only part of the planet which was never explored.

KAL EL: 1&2) Superman's Kryptonian name.

KANDOR: 1) The former capital of Krypton until it was stolen, shrunken, and placed in a bottle by the space-villain Brainiac. After defeating Brainiac, Superman kept the bottle-city in his Fortress until he found a way to enlarge on another world. 2) First capital of united Krypton. It was stolen by the space-villain Brainiac, shrunk, and placed in a bottle. After defeating Brainiac, Superman took the bottle to his Fortress of Solitude till he found a way to enlarge it on the planet Rokyn. 3) Former capital of Krypton, which was stolen by Brainiac, the space-criminal, who shrunk it and placed it in a bottle. Superman rescued the city and kept it in his Fortress for years, until he found a way to enlarge it on another world.

KARA: Supergirl's Kryptonian name. Since women took their fathers' full names as last names, her complete Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-El.

KARA ZOR-EL: 1&2) Supergirl's Kryptonian name. See Zor-El.

KIL-GOR: One of Krypton's first great inventors, best known for his invention of a kind of hourglass. See the next issue for his story (3).

KRYPTONOPOLIS: The city of Superman's birth. Actually, this is a rendering of the name in Earth language, using the Greek "polis" (city). The original Kryptonian name is very difficult to pronounce. The city was founded by outcasts from Erkol, murated by radiation during the Erkol-Xan war. Although they were strange in appearance and had telekinetic powers their offspring were normal.

LESLA LAR: A native Kandorian who was Supergiri's double and became her enemy. An orphan, Lesla took a surname from the family of her best friend, Zora Vi-Lar.

LORAX: A Kryptonian "month of 73 days. There were six of these in the year of 438 days

LORAXO: Plural of Lorax, a period of 73 days, making a Kryptonian month. Six of these months made a year (Amzet in Kryptonese). There were also 73 weeks of six days each.

LURVAN: 1) The continent on which Kandor and Kryptonopolis were located. 2) The continent on which Superman was born.

MARG-ROM: Gam-El's assistant in architecture.

MITHEN: One of Krypton's two moons. It was hurled into a new solar orbit when Krypton exploded.

MOLIOM: Any member of the Science Council.

MUNDRU, MOUNT: The highest peak on Krypto, located on the continent of Twenx, west of Urrika.

NIM-EL: Jor-El lI's twin brother, a weapons scientist of Kandor. His son, Don-El, became Chiel of Police in Kandor.

NIOZ: An island off the east coast of Urrika.

OLIPHENT: A type of large animal domesticated and used as a beast of burden in ancient Urrika. Despite the similarity to our word "elephant," there was little resemblance to this Earth creature except that both are large. The Oliphent was not even a mammal, but a warm-blooded egg-laying creature. If, as some scientists now believe, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, they may have been something like the Oliphent.

PHANTOM ZONE: A twilight dimension into which convicted criminals were projected during the last year of Krypton's existence.

PRYLIGU: A large sea-monster of Krypton.

PUX-TUL: A fine glassmaker, but somewhat lacking in imagination.

RAO: 1) Originally, an ancient Kryptonian sun-god. When the people of Krypton came to worship one God, the name Rao was applied to Him. 2) Originally the name of an ancient Kryptonian sun-god, later used as the name of the One God. 3) In the mythology of ancient Krypton, the sun-god, who was deemed the chief of all gods. So great was the respect for the red sun of Krypton that any soldier of Erok's time automatically became an officer if he had red hair. When Jaf-El preached the worship of one god, he gave Him the name of Rao, though no longer identifying Him specifically with the sun. Note that in the wedding ceremony, the phrase used was "Rao, who kindled the sun," showing Him to be the sun's creator, but not the sun itself.

ROKYN: 1) Name of Kandor's new world. It comes from RO, the possessive form of Rao. plus KYN, meaning "gift." Thus Rokyn is "Rao's gift," or "The Gift of God." 2) The planet on which Kandor was enlarged. From RO-the possessive form of Rao KYN-gift. Therefore, "Gift of God".

SCIENCE COUNCIL: The ruling body on Krypton and in Kandor. Members are elected for life by a vote of the people, based on their contributions to science.

SHYLA KOR-ONN: A former Phantom Zone prisoner who fought Supergirl.

SILTEN: A type of edible algae, or seaweed.

SIN-DAR: A statesman of the city state of Strau, in Urrika, at the time of the Kryptonian Federation.

SUL-EL: One of Superman's ancestors, inventor of the telescope. His story was told in KRYPTON CHRONICLES #2.

SUPERGIRL'S PARENTS: See Zor-El and Alura

TANTH: A title of respect for a man; equivalent to Sir or Mister in English. The feminine form is TYNTH.

TANTHO: 1) The plural of TANTH. Used as we might use "gentlemen." 3) Plural of Tanth; a term of respect for a man, roughly equivalent to our Sir or Gentleman.

TANTHUO FLEZ: Trom the same root as Tanth; Tanthu (the singular) cannot be exactly translated into English, as we have no equivalent word. It indicates a non-human creature accorded great respect. Combined with Flez, meaning "able to fly," the term is used for the amazing creatures which saved the people from the flood. The best we can do in translating Tanthuo Flez into English is to call it the "Winged One".

THOUGHT-TRACKER EYE: A Kryptonian device able to home in on criminal minds by their peculiar brain waves.

THRIB: A very short period of time, equivalent to an Earth second.

TRO-EL: Val-El's brother, who had been in a good deal of trouble from boyhood. He had just been released from prison a short time before he joined his brother's voyage of discovery.

TWELLIAN: A succulent fruit native to Krypton. Its flavor is unlike that of any Earth fruit, but quite delicious.

TWENX: A smaller continent west of Urrika; site of Mount Mundru, highest peak on Krypton.

TYNTHO: Plural of Tynth, the feminine of Tanth. Tynth means, roughly, Lady, or Madame.

URRIKA: 1) The Kryptonian continent where civilization began, Erkol was located there. 2) The "old world" continent on which Kryptonian civilization began. 3) The large continent on which Kryptonian civilization began.

VAL-EL: An ancestor of Superman, and a great explorer. He used Kil-Gor's lodestone discovery to invent the compass. His story was told in KRYPTON CHRONICLES #2.

VAN-ZEE: 1) A relative and look alike of Superman, living in Kandor. A prominent scientist and a Molom, he has a double life as Nightwing, the "Batman" of Kandor. His partner, Flamebird, is Ak-Var, former Phantom Zone criminal, now reformed, working as Van's assistant, and married to Van's niece. 2) Superman's look-alike cousin; his mother was a younger sister of Superman's grandfather.

VAR-EL: 1) Superman's great-grandfather, a scientist who mysteriously vanished, so Krypton has no record of his life. 3) Father of Jor-El I and great-grandfather of Superman. Denied the right to continue with experiments deemed dangerous on Krypton, he invented a means to travel to Earth by teleportation. Here the fears of his colleagues on Krypton proved correct, and he was swept into another dimension, where he perished.

VATHLO: Island populated by a black race. They retained their independence throughout history, and did not join the planetary federation, though maintaining good relations with it.

WANAN: A former plain outside Kandor. In the years following the Federabon, it was built up and became part of the city.

WEGTHOR: 1) One of Krypton's two moons it was colonized, but was then destroyed by an experiment of the criminal scientist Jax-Ur. 2)One of Krypton's moons. It was destroyed when an experiment by the villain Jax-Ur went wrong, killing the people who had colonized Wegthor. The remains of this moon joined with space debris, to form rings around Krypton like those around Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

WHIRL-HAILSTORM: A furious storm with the force and circular motion of a hurricane, combined with driving hail.

WOLU: 1) A Kryptonian hour of 10,000 thribo. Ten Woluo made one day (ZETYAR in Kryptonese). 2) A Kryptonian "hour", consisting of 100 DENDARO.

WOLUO: The plural of WOLU.

YAGRUM: 1) A particularly dangerous, but rare, monster once found on Krypton.

2) A dangerous monster of Krypton; extinct since the planet's destruction.

YUDA: One of the chief goddesses of ancient Krypton. She was the patron of love and also Krypton's two moons, which, when they seemed to come together in the night sky, were believed to represent marriage. Though her worship ended with the flood, she was remembered in folklore, and at one time a mechanical statue of her was used at certain festivals in Superman's home city, Kryptonopolis.

ZOR-EL: 1) Jor-El ll's younger brother. He lived in Argo City. which survived Krypton's doom, but was later wiped out by Kryptonite. Sending Kara, his daughter, to Earth, he managed to project his wife, Alura, and himself into another dimension, from which Supergirl later freed them. They then went to live in Kandor. 2) Younger brother of Superman's father, Jor-El. When ARGO CITY (q.v.) was doomed, he sent his daughter to Earth and managed to project himself and his wife, Alura, into another dimension, from which his daughter, Supergirl later freed them.

ZORA VI-LAR: A Kandorian villainess and close friend of Lesla-Lar. Calling herself Black Flame, she tried to expose Supergirl to Gold Kryptonite, which could steal her powers permanently.

[bi-hop]

DC, unprompted: the Kryptonian word for a month is a lorax

me: say sike right now