Tleqazdijdiet/meta

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The article on Olympiad in Supplement 11 spells the word Tleqazdijdiet, whereas Alien Module 4 spells it Thequzdij (This is copied in AR1). According to the language tables on AM4 p. 21 and AR1 p25, the Zhodani language contains neither the th construct, nor the letter 'u'. This implies that either AM4 is wrong. or the Thequzdij word is an older or borrowed word, and not part of the modern Zhdant language.

James Kundert in the Online Zhodani dictionary assumes the latter: "One theory to account for this is that the word is from the Qiknavrats (Chirper) language, and has been retained for its historical significance."

This makes little sense because the Qiknavrats are, by the time the Olympiad becomes an established institution, extinct for 1300 years, on the other side of a plague induced massive population dieoff and subsequent dark age.