Pride in Words Design

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LGBTQ:

Lesbian

Hittite, Cuneiform script

𒆷𒊍𒉺𒅀 <la-az-pa-ia>: "of Lazpa".

Hittite "Lazpa" is thought to be an earlier form of the same name as Greek "Lesbos". "Lazpa" is attested in one document from Hattusa, and the adjective form "Lazpaia" in another one.

Gay

Gothic, Gothic script

𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 gaheis: "fast, impetuous, lively".

Borrowed from Gothic into Old Occitan during the time of the Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia and southwestern France. From there it was borrowed into Old French, where it merged with jai, previously borrowed from Frankish—both from the same Proto-Germanic <*ganhuz>.

Bi

Archaic Latin, Old Italic script

𐌃𐌖𐌉𐌔 duis: "double, in two ways".

The prefixing form of duo: "two"; with change from du- to b- also seen in bonus from duenos, bellus from duenelos, and bellum from duellum

Old Italic forms based on those seen in the Duenos Inscription.

Trans

Classical Latin, Roman square capitals

TRANS: "across"

Based on square capitals such as on the Trajan Column

Queer

Old Saxon, Germanic runes

ᚦᚢᛅᚱᚼ thwerh: "contrary, bent, crooked"

queer shows an irregular change from thw- to kw- also seen in the German cognate quer, as well as in German Quirl from Old High German thwiril.

Very little written Old Saxon survived Charlemagne's Saxon Wars, but Germanic runes are attested in contemporary Germanic languages immediately north, east, and south of Saxony, so I've taken the artistic liberty of assuming that Old Saxon was sometimes written in runes.