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Vlürch wrote:Linguaphile wrote:Or enthroned.
True, but that can also be used to refer to non-monarchs and figuratively pretty much anything. Of course any word that explicitly refers to enmonarchment could be, too, but at least it'd literally refer to... uh... enmonarchment. I swear the only word I can think of is *enmonarched, and it is immediately understandable so it would probably be better than something more obscure... but I'm still pretty sure there has to be a word with that explicit specific meaning, even if it'd only be found in some obscure 16th-century dictionary.Linguaphile wrote:(In Ghanaian English they say enstooled.)
Interesting!
Linguaphile wrote:The thing is, enmonarched isn't a real word, but enthroned is. There's also coronated and crowned.
Gormur wrote:It seems kind of useless
No idea. I think it has to do with the structure of kings coming first and queens being their wife, so automatically they (women) were royalty but then even as things got more complex with rules they never came up with terms to express what women did in their chosen/inherited rolesVlürch wrote:Gormur wrote:It seems kind of useless
Well, maybe, but I meant specifically a word that's not used figuratively the same way as enthroned and would only be used to refer to literal monarchs.
Vlürch wrote:Gormur wrote:It seems kind of useless
Well, maybe, but I meant specifically a word that's not used figuratively the same way as enthroned and would only be used to refer to literal monarchs.
Linguaphile wrote:The literal meaning comes first, and then it acquires figurative meanings by extension. You could invent a word like enmonarched, but if the word caught on (if people started to actually use it), it would almost certainly be only a matter of time before people started using it figuratively as well.
Gormur wrote:Maybe I misunderstood. Were you trying to come up with a term meaning when a woman becomes queen or was it to do with a kingdom ruled by a woman?
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