Khreestrefah wrote:
I wonder if the D’ni form here is actually Riven, with “Equiquay” being a literal translation. We already have an initial element ri in a few words and names, and ven could be related to the first component of the Age name Venalem. (“Ink-harbor” or “Ink-port” would be a plausible meaning for this name, given what we know conceptually about it.)
One of the words that ri occurs in is the verb rifoon ‘remember’, and this does mean to have in mind something “equal” to what one had in mind before. We know from the adjective tefoonet ‘memorial’ that foon expresses the mental part of this concept, so ri could express the idea of equivalence here, and thus it may be similar in meaning to the English component “equi-”.
Thus ri-ven = 'equiquay' or "nexus."
Shorah
There isn't a D'ni word for Riven, IIRC. Gehn never gave a name to any of his Ages. He simply referred to them by the numerical order in which he wrote them. Riven was the fifth Age he wrote, so he either called it the Fifth Age or Age Five. I recall reading somewhere that Riven is either the name the natives had for their world or the island chain, or that perhaps Katran gave it that name. Either way, the chances are that it isn't a D'ni word. Instead, it's probably Rivenese.