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1. Why does the Resol'nare say 'vencuyan'? That looks like a noun to me. 'All sustain' would be 'an vencuyani,' from vencuyanir. Cuyan is a noun, 'survival.'
Perhaps the real reason is simply a typo, but that's not in-world workable. I could accept that it is a noun, and that a little more literal translation would scan 'all (are) future-survival (for) us.'
OR- it's because it is a poem. Perhaps in Mando'a, the verb endings can be left off when it better suits the rhythm of the line. Mando'a is already a strongly contextual language, and there is precedent for that sort of thing in other languages.
Happens somewhat often in phrases and lyrics. I should see if anyone’s already indexed it.
2. A pet peeve perhaps more than a real confusion. Why is a week five days? (Ray’tuure) Can I pretend there is a day of rest or two and that the five simply refers to traditional working days? The only RL attempt at a five-day week was the mess that was the Soviet calendar, which anyone who could get away with it ignored. It's too rushed; successful alternatives to seven day weeks are extremely rare and have more days, not less. Plus, six days for 'nare' and one for 'udes' - how perfect would that have been?
This is actually KT being faithful to the Galactic Standard Calendar, following Coruscant’s lunar month of 35 days and solar year of 10 months, 3 fete weeks, and 3 holidays. The days are Primeday, Centaxday, Taungsday, Zhellday, and Benduday. Other weeks, including a 7 day and a tenday, are used elsewhere. Perhaps Mando’a 5-day is simply an adaptation to Republic time.
3. Now that it's been pointed out by marmota_b, why is gaht’yc: polar literally mean "northly" or "northish"? I'm no astronomer, but I also was under the impression that poles came in twos (e.g. North and South), because a pole is where an axis meets the surface of a sphere (like if you put a stick through the middle of a ball, the poles would be the two points where the stick stuck out of the ball).
BUT maybe it has something to do with a compass, like magnetic North? Wikipedia informs me the magnetic north and south don't have to align with the rotation of the planet, that's just for our convenience on Earth. And also that magnetic north and magnetic south can and do switch places. I could see that leading to the current word. In any case, we can't assume polar implies artic or cold without more evidence, because the parts of a planet farthest from their star don't have to be the poles.
OR/and, perhaps I have this backwards. Maybe north is '(the main) pole': gaht, and south is 'that other pole': ka'gaht. That would tidy up the connections between the words, but it's weaker as a theory because 'pole' isn't given as a definition of 'gaht'.
MandoCreator puts “gaht’yc” as ‘northern’ in addition to ‘polar’, but Shoya independently suggested my second theory.