Kajira

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[[Image:Kajira-kef.png|thumb|100px|right|One version of the Kajira "Kef" symbol or "Staff and fronds", symbolizing "beauty under discipline"]]
 
[[Image:Kajira-kef.png|thumb|100px|right|One version of the Kajira "Kef" symbol or "Staff and fronds", symbolizing "beauty under discipline"]]
  
'''Kajira''' is the term for "slave" in [[John Norman]]'s [[Gor]] novels.  Slaves in the [[Gorean]] lifestyle will refer to themselves as kajirae.
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'''Kajira''' is the term for "slave-girl" in [[John Norman]]'s ''[[Gor]]'' novels.  Slaves in the [[Gorean]] lifestyle will refer to themselves as ''kajirae''. The phrase "''la kajira''"  is said to mean "I am a slave-girl" in the main Gorean language (the most widely-spoken lingua franca in the known regions of the planet Gor); this is one of the few complete Gorean-language sentences given in the Gor novels
  
The word is usually seen in the feminine form "kajira" (plural "kajirae"), as most slaves in the Gorean lifestyle are female; the masculine forms are "kajirus" and "kajiri."  The construction "kajiras" is incorrect but occasionally seen in third-party writing.
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The word is usually seen in the feminine form "kajira" (plural "kajirae"), as most slaves in the Gorean lifestyle are female; the masculine forms are "kajirus" and "kajiri" (following the rules of  nominative adjective morphology in the Latin language, as seen also with words such as "alumnus"/"alumna", etc.). The construction "kajiras" is incorrect, but is occasionally seen in third-party writing
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 15:02, 3 March 2007

One version of the Kajira "Kef" symbol or "Staff and fronds", symbolizing "beauty under discipline"

Kajira is the term for "slave-girl" in John Norman's Gor novels. Slaves in the Gorean lifestyle will refer to themselves as kajirae. The phrase "la kajira" is said to mean "I am a slave-girl" in the main Gorean language (the most widely-spoken lingua franca in the known regions of the planet Gor); this is one of the few complete Gorean-language sentences given in the Gor novels

The word is usually seen in the feminine form "kajira" (plural "kajirae"), as most slaves in the Gorean lifestyle are female; the masculine forms are "kajirus" and "kajiri" (following the rules of nominative adjective morphology in the Latin language, as seen also with words such as "alumnus"/"alumna", etc.). The construction "kajiras" is incorrect, but is occasionally seen in third-party writing

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