Yuln 206 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Waleh - Health Waler - To heal Fah - Death Faher - To die Bilok'fah - To kill Aetah - Age (In elven years) Aetah'onn - Birthday Munih - Wall Munih'onn - Tower Arx - Fortress Fih - Area, Empire Ciwih - City, State Ciwih'onn - Citizen Scenax - Council Custoih - Warden Hastax - Lance, spear Turrih - Archer (when on a wall) Turr - Arrow Equitax - Cavalry, a group of horses Anim - Soul, wind A citadel would be Fortress-in-City But I don't know how to do that with correct grammar, so there I'll need your help for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerinyes 402 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Do we have words for family? Mother Father Sister Brother Daughter Son Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elindor 654 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Not yet. I recognised this a while ago but never amended it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuln 206 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Can someone please tell if the words I suggested are good?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elindor 654 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'll get back to you on Monday. I know some of the words do already exist in the sense that they can be made from connecting words. I'll be returning to Ancient Elven early next week, so hopefully we'll have some pretty sweet additions to the dictionary coming real soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuln 206 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Ok, :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elindor 654 Share Posted December 19, 2011 As promised, bringing you some new words. Aurea, any that you suggested that are not on the list is because these words would not have existed at the time of the language. A number of these words are also not new. Health - hiylu to heal - waleh not living - taynane death - yallirane to die - yallrane to destroy/kill - bilokane Age - aetah Birthday - aetah'onn Wall - mahnih Fortress - mahnihan Tower - siimah Region - fin City - cihi citizen - cihionn Village - linan Citadel - cihi'leh'mahnihan Council (circle of leaders) for region - finir'heial Council for City - cihir'heial spear - ihnsil (ihn- is similar to "on a stick") arrow - berronn strength - ceru cow - vilut sheep - turr pig - beloun horse - faesu Circle - heial Wind - iheiuh Families in early Malinor were very integrated within the community of elves. All elves were considered brothers or sisters as they were all sons and daughters of Malin. Sister - liyur Brother - ciyut Mother - haelun Father - maln Daughter - liyuronn Son - ciyutonn Upon further investigation I've found that the word for 'mir' has been mispronounced. I will be making the adjustments to reintroduce 'miar' as lava. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic 2801 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Excellent work, Elindor! Your contributions will be much appreciated, as always. However, it seems we still disagree on the word krah for death, procured from Aerin Lissar who suggests the duality of elven concepts. I would insist that 'not living' may not be considered equivalent to 'death'. Two words for opposing concept are scattered all through the language. Day and Night, Hard and Soft. Furthermore, I must argue that the -ir suffix is meant for persons, and that anything containing 'yallir' would bring to mind 'one who is death', perhaps a departed or a ghost. One who is not death, well, what is that but another mortal? ((Have you noticed how verbs seem to lend themselves for the -ir suffix much better than nouns? It's like you said. I move that we try to make as much verb seed words as possible.)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuln 206 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Hey I did some work too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic 2801 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Down there \/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic 2801 Author Share Posted December 19, 2011 Hey I did some work too! ((This is more than correct. I do feel like you deserve a spot on the 'elven language' team for your continued help. It'll mean you can help brainstorm and develop the language. I just need to know you understand how the current grammar and combination rules of the language work, so that you won't add stuff that we feel breaks the consistency of the tongue. Let me know if you're interested)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuln 206 Share Posted December 19, 2011 I would love to help, but I won't post anything, I'll send suggestions to you and Elindor. And I'll read the grammar again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elindor 654 Share Posted December 19, 2011 Alrighty then, you can go with the duality of concepts and add in 'death'. I was thinking that the elves would not have faced death very much and would have had little use for a word. yallir is already in the dictionary for 'life' - to be living. Perhaps its another mispronunciation that's slipped its way through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sporadic 2801 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Busy times, the main post needs still be updated and I swear I'm working on it. See revisions, including the official rule on infinitives/'concept words', soon enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrym 188 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Ok, so I was going to read this thread until I realized that it was an entire textbook on elvish so instead I'll just ask. How do you say "Teacher" or "Master"? EDIT: This is great and when I actually have the time I'll try to learn it. Great job on this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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