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| Copper Elven Vampire |
Posted - 28 Feb 2018 : 05:37:26
I'm trying to decipher the words from elvish to English.
I want to write "Book of Shadow Mastery"
Or tel'kiira of shadow mastery. |
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| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 11 Mar 2018 : 06:05:14
-All of the Lythari words and phrases from Mark Sehestedt's stuff, I always denoted as "Eastern Lythari", distinct from the regular dialect of Lythari and the rest of Elven given that they were presented as a completely distinct culture, having very little connection to Elves elsewhere. Same with the eastern Elves of al-Qahera, but I really don't remember if any terminology was shared in that book, now that I think about it. |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 10 Mar 2018 : 05:25:58
The problem with the Elvish tongue in the Realms is that you have three prime sources: the Cormanthyr/Fall of Myth Drannor sourcebooks by Steven Schend, Ed's lore and material from the fiction line. Some of the fiction material is very Earth-derivative (such as the work of Mark Sehestedt - Frostfell, etc: he used American Indian languages as his baseline; go figure ... ) while the stuff of Rich Baker (Last Mythal series) and Keith Strohm (Bladesinger) isn't too difficult to blend in. It's not what I would describe as a cohesive whole though.
-- George Krashos |
| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 10 Mar 2018 : 02:21:20
-It's all canon (novels, sourcebooks, WotC online articles, author threads) or derived from extrapolating specific words from canon phrases, but it's also way out of date; The WotC forum one was a little more recent (but that's dead), and the one here is probably about ten years or so out of date. |
| TBeholder |
Posted - 09 Mar 2018 : 19:09:06
There's "Elven Dictionary", but it has no sources marked (some entries certainly come from Ed's answers, others may be from Dragon, who knows?) and falls under the single most fangirled-upon subject in the whole genre of fantasy, so the quality of each specific entry is unknown.
"Glossary of Phrases, Sayings & Words of the Realms" has sources, but with little Elvish and the collection was not updated much. |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 02 Mar 2018 : 07:33:32
Yeah sure. Of course, if it is something unique you might actually give it a name - which doesn't necessarily need to be translatable. Like "the Atharamon, the Shadow Gem of Sharlarion" or somesuch.
-- George Krashos |
| Copper Elven Vampire |
Posted - 01 Mar 2018 : 20:52:54
quote:
Originally posted by George Krashos
You are welcome.
I did do a further edit which doesn't appear to have gone through.
You would substitute "kiir" (gem) instead of "tel'kiira" as the latter is a lore gem and a very different thing to a normal gem stone, even if it was enspelled.
-- George Krashos
Actually, I am going for a High Lore gem, made in the very ancient elven city of Sharlarion by the High priest of Erevan in that city. So I'm thinking of calling it Rilan'vae Selu-Kiira. Does that work?? |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 28 Feb 2018 : 23:17:05
You are welcome.
I did do a further edit which doesn't appear to have gone through.
You would substitute "kiir" (gem) instead of "tel'kiira" as the latter is a lore gem and a very different thing to a normal gem stone, even if it was enspelled.
-- George Krashos |
| Copper Elven Vampire |
Posted - 28 Feb 2018 : 19:26:45
quote:
Originally posted by George Krashos
quote:
Originally posted by Copper Elven Vampire
I'm trying to decipher the words from elvish to English.
I want to write "Book of Shadow Mastery"
Or tel'kiira of shadow mastery.
Shadow is "n'vae" (i.e. not light). Ed has told me that book is "antath". I don't have a word for "mastery". Let's use a suitably sounding word: how about: "rilae" - with "rilahr" being master). Oh, and I use "os" for of.
So "book of shadow mastery" might be "antathos rilan'vae" or "anatathos n'vaerilae" or, well, you get the idea. Same goes with a the gem of shaow mastery. Just substitute "tel'kiira" for "anthathos".
-- George Krashos
Thank you so very much Krashos. |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 28 Feb 2018 : 17:50:26
quote:
Originally posted by Copper Elven Vampire
I'm trying to decipher the words from elvish to English.
I want to write "Book of Shadow Mastery"
Or tel'kiira of shadow mastery.
Shadow is "n'vae" (i.e. not light). Ed has told me that book is "antath". I don't have a word for "mastery". Let's use a suitably sounding word: how about: "rilae" - with "rilahr" being master). Oh, and I use "os" for of.
So "book of shadow mastery" might be "antathos rilan'vae" or "anatathos n'vaerilae" or, well, you get the idea. Same goes with a the gem of shadow mastery. Just substitute "tel'kiira" for "antathos".
-- George Krashos |
