As with Isian, for the Ardari post I won’t be adding too many culture-specific words. Remember that these two conlangs are supposed to be a base on which to build. We’ll stick to generalities here.
For Ardari fès and fan (food and drink, respectively), the situation is largely the same. The three-meal structure is a little older, however, with indrajat “breakfast” and vòllrajat “lunch” being a bit fluid in their timing, but dèllar “dinner” always coming last.
Women aren’t the only ones to cook (lòsty-) in Ardari society. Men do, too, but only in certain ways. It’s the man’s job, for instance, to cook certain kinds of meat (arba). And either sex can bake (päk-), especially if they’re baking bread (namis päk ky). Frying (taynönda) is usually a woman’s job, though.
Ardari speakers eat more meat than their Isian neighbors, and they like their beverages. In addition to vingo (“wine”, usually imported), they have a drink made from a kind of milk (mechi) that is at least as alcoholic. If you don’t like that, though, you can always opt for simple obla “water”.
Soups and stews (both senses are covered by the general term zow) are common, usually laden with different kinds of èlyat “spice”; the historically recent introduction of New World crops expanded this part of the Ardari chef’s repertoire considerably. Salt (akor) used to be just as important, but modern advances have demoted it to just another type of seasoning.
Word List
General terms
- beverage/drink: fan
- dinner: dèllar
- food: fès
- meal: rajat
- oven: gralla
- to bake: päk-
- to cook: lòsty-
- to drink: kabus-
- to eat: tum-
- to fry: tayn-
Specific foodstuffs
- bread: nami
- cheese: kyèsi
- flour: plari
- honey: wychi
- meat: arba
- milk: mechi
- oil: dub
- salt: akor
- soup: zow
- spice: èlyat
- sugar: susi
- water: obla
- wine: vingo