Welinnorauyo

Welinnorauyo was a group term by the Féni to refer to the natives during the early years of their colonies in Ierlokyren. The name itself meant "yellow-red" in Middle Féni, and referred to the orange-colored pottery of the natives on the Cwrtheyrni Peninsula.

The first voyage by Achinoam Couwidés took her to what would eventually become the Féni Province of Teffsmw, where she met the natives she documented in the Eargwlagína (spear-book, referring to the natives) as the Welinnorauyo. At the time, while the Middle Féni language distinguished between singular and plural nouns, nouns that were plural and referred to animals were kept in the same form as singular nouns. Therefore, even though her documentation probably referred to the Welinnorauyo as a single tribe, it was interpreted to mean multiple non-human tribes. After that, the name caught on to mean any native in the "New Lands", and people felt justified in killing the Welinnorauyo because they believed they were subhuman.

A hundred or so years later, when the term began to fall out of use, many of the natives were gone, to the extent that archaeologists today can't tell how large the tribe Achinoam was referring to actually was. Of the remaining natives, most used Féni as a lingua franca, coining the term "Cweroyastin" to describe a universal language. From there, many of the tribes (or subdivisions of tribes) used names assigned to them by the Celtic colonizers, eventually causing the Féni to distinguish the chiefdoms from one another so much that there was no singular group name for the natives until centuries later.

In the last century, people have brought back the term as a group word for the people of the Duel Continents, though many groups have called it offensive. However, the sordid side of the word has been forgotten over the centuries, and some groups have embraced it as a term for themselves.