Post:A few words in Elven - 4/2/2009 - 14:45:48

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A few words in Elven · on 4/2/2009 2:45:48 PM 1789
OOC this was a response I received from an email, I thought I would share if anyone else might be curious. Thank you GameMaster Bartlebee it was very kind of you to take the time to look these up or whatever, and highly unexpected.

Dear Celitha:

Here are most of the words you asked about. In the list below, "n." stands for noun and "v" stand for verb.
battle, fight, n.: borroc
battle, fight, v.: borrocatu
castle, n.: sind
chicken, n.: oilasco
cook, v.: lugisman
cow, n.: behi
dove, n.: cepderi
heat, v.: gizman
hit, v.: jotu
keep of a castle, n.: warene
kick, v.: ostico
leaf, n.: hosto
lightning, n.: cercorim
meat, n.: ocela
mouse, n.: michan
pair, n.: bicote
pigeon, n.: uso
punish, v.: jezatu
punishment, n.: jeza
rat, n.: tunclis
rose, n.: carar
servant, n.: sanaber
serve, v.: abermin
strike, hit, v.: urman
swan, n.: gulbis
tea, n.: demle
turkey, n.: indiuc
vegetable, n.: goc
watchtower, n.: tamsagat

At present there are no Elven translations for these words: army, berry, court, fortress, pheasant, punch, purple, slap, slave or whip.

For more information on Elven, you can consult three in-game books:

An Outline of Elven Grammar
A Common-to-Elven Dictionary
An Elven-to-Common Dictionary

You can find these books on the language bookcase in Crossing's Asemath Academy, Library Hall.

Best wishes,
Bartlebee

Celitha

This message was originally posted in The Races of DragonRealms (8) \ Elves - Elven Observations (4), by LERASHA on the play.net forums.