Man
One of the most basic building blocks of High Woldian is the symbol for Man and its derivatives. It represents a head, arms and legs.
Here are some of the most important variants.
|
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| Man | Woman |
In common use, when combining with numbers and other symbols to create other words, the Man symbol is frequently diminished, in a form of shorthand, to this:
When used in conjunction with the numbers we covered earlier,
we gain the personal pronouns. The numbers signify first, second, third person.
The 
symbol indicates Plural.
 |
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 |
 |
 |
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| I | You | He | We | You (Plural) | They |
The Feminine is indicated by the addition of the second Place icon seen in
Woman . If the single
place symbol in Man indicates Head, or cognitive ability, the second in Woman
indicates Child, or the potential thereof. So the Feminine of We
is 
,
for example.
By adding the Order symbol to Man we get the symbol for King:
, but it interesting to
note that the meaning is subtly altered when the same symbol is added to Man
(diminished). This symbol 
denotes
Master, whilst this inverted Order symbol added to Man means
Servant
.
Variants of the Man symbol exist. This symbol 
denotes
four legs, and is used for Beast (though the symbol is literal;
this is equally applied to beasts of the two, four and multi-legged variety
in recovered High Woldian manuscripts.
This symbol
,
showing as it does a missing arm, is the word for Injury.
As we shall see, the various parts of the Man symbol are also used to create further words.
