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English
Etymology
From Dothraki + -an.
Proper noun
Dothrakian
- (rare, fiction, nonstandard) Synonym of Dothraki (language).
2015 November 12, Tiffany Chen, “'Game of Thrones' David J. Peterson discusses the Invention of Language”, in The Wellesley News:Daenerys Targaryen’s nickname evolves from the Dothrakian word for woman, which is “yasi.”
2019 May 6, Edwin J. Viera, “Cornell grad students create language for Captain Marvel”, in Ithaca News:Both are great fans of fictional constructed languages like Dothrakian from “Game of Thrones” or Klingon from “Star Trek.”
2021, Eve Langlais, Taming a Bear, unnumbered page:He hoped they knew one of the three languages he'd learned. Russian, his mother tongue, English immersion to ensure him fully fluent, and Dothrakian because he liked the guttural sound of it.
Adjective
Dothrakian (comparative more Dothrakian, superlative most Dothrakian)
- (rare, fiction) Relating to or characteristic of the Dothraki, a nomadic people in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire.
2016, Rikke Schubart, “Woman With Dragons: Daenerys, Pride, and Postfeminist Possibilities”, in Anne Gjelsvik, Rikke Schubart, editors, Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements, New York, N.Y.; London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, “Dragons” section, page 122:Walking on foot from Drogon’s lair in the mountains, she is surrounded by Dothrakian warriors, and her fate remains to be seen.
2024, Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley, and friends, “Leading to Mediocrity; or, Knowing Your Place in Academia”, in Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities, London: Zero Books, →ISBN, “Managerial blah and the ‘regime of truth’” section:Note here the use of weasel words (‘could be’ and ‘can be’) and the reference to some apparently known but unspecified generic subjects (‘some markets’, ‘many read’); the Dothrakian ‘it is known’, for aficionados of Game of Thrones.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dothrakian.