Sylvan (Titanian)

Base Common Nanshilae acceptable acorn Mia adult adventure adventurer afraid after Sali agile alcohol all Beleb ally alone Mim also although And O anger, wrath angry animal Silumni any arm Mieme armed armor arrow as assassin aunt autumn Tu back (of torso ) bad Ukkutae balance bandit bartender battle beautiful beer behind (preposition) before Suli between Toot big Mil blade book Kutaeminbeb border boring both boy bow branch Mie brave bright broken Ukt brother bush But Ka by, near chest, container chest, torso child Mirfae city Milvonkel cold Vuk comfortable correct Council cousin Damn! danger dangerous dark Lu darkness daughter day Al death Kutae defense dew dragon Dar drink dry Kele dwarf, dwarven earth Vo eight either Elf (sing.), Elven elven (language) eternity Saliosuli ever exciting expensive Face Sein Fall family fast father Fenmaer female Fe field finger Minsei fire Kut fish five flower Se food Ela foot Mivormin for He forest Kel forever Saliysuli forsaken four friend friendly from Ye fruit Mir full of full fun Sile gem girl god, deity gold (metal?) Lirn gold (color?) Vorai good Faele goodbye grass Ne grass (tall) Na gratitude, thanks grove Ke hair half hand Miemin happy haven, safe place haven, safe place haven, safe place He/She healthy heart her here Vakel hers Hey! high vele hill/mountain him his/its house of house Kal house (noble) Kral How human hungry Elaf husband I me if in Pe inner in the journey keep (small castle) king Fenler kingdom (f) Rie kingdom (m) Rien Land of... last leaf Min leg Mivome left (direction) less Nu library Kalvarkutaeminbebib life Fae light Li little ("a little bit") long Look out! Low volo magic Fer magical male Fen many Beb maybe/perhaps me be metal Vor mine missing moon Luvese more No mortal Kutarirfe most mother Femaer mother-in-law much/many music Selui name Yal neice neice neither nephew nephew never new Sear next night Ul nine No Ho Nor Not U now nut Miu ocean Elb of var off vur Oh no! Ai ho! OK! old Satuku on ver once on the one Or I Orc Order ours out Po outer outside Velvo over Vel passage pattern Liverel petal Sei pleasant, nice pollen Fealeai poor potion powerful queen Feler quickly rain Siluelve raven re- (to do again) je- rich right (direction) river Siluel road, i.e. way of passage root Mivo Sea season seed Sea seven Shaahesk shadow she fea shield short sick silver (metal?) Lir silver (color?) Vorih sister six sky Ve slow slowly small Il smart snow so something son song Salif sorceress (unseelie) Ferfe or Ferife sorceress (seelie) Fefer or Feferi Sorcery Ferfae or Faefer sound Seluin spice Spring Le star Vese stranger stem Sep stone Von stronghold, castle stupid Summer La sun Veli sword Mie'Lorvor tavern, inn faav teacher/mentor ten than thank you that, which the -s (added to the end of the word) theirs them there They thing thirsty Elef this thorn lo three time Silualbe time (long) Siluelvaralbe tired To Y Toe Mivosei Tomorrow Salali tourist town, trade (noun) traveler tree Mi Twilight Alul two ugly uncle undead under Vol us very wall watcher, guard water El way We weak weapon lor Welcome Wet Ele What When Where whether while Who Why wife wind wine sileel Winter Uk with neal Wizard Ferivar Kutaeminbeb Wizard (shortened) Ferivar'Kaebeb wizardry Fer var Kutaeminbed woman (adult female) wonderful wrong year lele Yes Hi yesterday saluli yet you (pl) ba you ma young sear yours (pl) yours

New work in progress

This is not official avlis lore yet and has no team approval. Please don't use this IG yet. This language I'm hoping will act as the Titanian variant of the sylvan language. Since in most settings the sylvan language becomes the basis of all fey (and elven) languages this is usually an important language, acting as a lingua franca in the forest. However in Avlis since we have two variants of sylvan I'm not sure there is going to be a role for this particular one. While Avlissian Sylvan will be offered as the lingua franca of avlissian druids, a practically identical language to the centaur language and is a known language of all avlissian sentient woodland beings there is too much mission overlap to have Titanian sylvan fill that role exclusively for titanian fey as well as us having a fairy common. Basically I don't see a role for titanian sylvan in avlis unless it is as strong an influence on "fairy common" as Avlissian sylvan is on centaur. In that role it also helps reinforce the lineage of avlissian fey languages in the way that would make them resemble fey languages from other settings influenced by nanshilae rather than evolutionary outcomes of nanshilae (" '! ")

Titanian sylvan would otherwise only be able to act as a lingua franca for titanians, seelie and unseelie across species. Such a role may be conceived fairly I think given the long conflict between titanians and Oman fey but since each titanian would have a racial language very different from its oman counterpart as well as the existence of a fairy common, and considering that not only are titanian fey late comers on to the setting of avlis but that seelie and unseelie don't mix that often while it divides the populations of titanian fey into likely much smaller communities than oman fey I tend to hold that the only useful role for titanian sylvan is, again, as a strong parallel to what we've been calling "fairy common". In fact, I think if we treat them as the same language with titanian sylvan being almost painfully formal and fairy common being extremely casual that would be perfect. Opinions welcome, just start a discussion entry please and I'll move this there. I just put all this out here so it wouldnt be missed. (xiaou)

Base language

The fey of Avlis not created by O'Ma were created by a goddess named Titania.

Conjunctions:

• And
• But '
• Or '
• Nor '
• yet '
• so '
• for '

Colors:

• black '
• blue Ae
• green Ei
• orange '
• red Ea
• white Ih
• brown Eatu
• purple '
• yellow Ai

Expressions:

Excuse me '!

Goodbye '

Good day

Good night

Hello!/Well met! '

Good day! (Hello!) Ae

Good evening/ Good night!

Of course, certainly '

Thank you '

You're welcome '

I'm sorry '

I speak elven. .

Do you speak elven? '

I do not speak , but I want to learn. '

Verbs:

Ei

to attack nofaylas	to leave ayzavas
to be able to	to like, to enjoy
to bless	to listen
to buy	to lose
to call	to love
to cast	to read
to come	to remember
to create	to rest
to die	to return
to drink	to save
to eat	to say
to excuse	to see
to feel	to sell
to finish	to sing
to forget	to sit
to fly	to speak
to give	to stand
to go, to walk	to take
to hate	to travel
to heal	to think
to help	to understand Ei
to hit	to want, to need, to desire
to hope	to watch, to guard
to journey	to win
to kill	to write
to know	to run
to learn

Grammar

For Example:

Singular	Plural
- house	- houses
- battle	- battles
- field	- fields
- way	- ways

Single/Plural:

.

Present Indicative tense

Singular verbs:

• I guard '

• You guard

• He/She/It guards '

Plural verbs, add -u to the stem:

• We guard

• You guard

• They guard

Present Perfect tense:

In the present perfect tense,

• I guarded '

• You guarded '

• He guarded '

• She guarded '

• We guarded '

• You guarded '

• They guarded '

Future imperfect:

• I will guard '

• You will guard '

• He/She/It will guard '

• We will guard

• You (pl) will guard '

• They will guard '

Converting a verb to a noun:

Take the stem and

Examples:

• ' (to give) becomes ' (giving)
• ' (to hope) becomes ' (hope, or hoping)

There is no distinction

The verb "to be".

The only irregular verb

• I am good. .

• You are good. .

• He is good. .

• She is good. .

• We are good. .

• You are good. .

• They are good. .

Pronouns

1st Person:

• I - '
• We - '

2nd Person:

• You - '
• You -'

3rd Person:

• He/She - '
• They -

Indirect pronouns:

• me 'Ei

• you '

• him '

• her '

• us '

• you (pl) '

• them '

Indirect pronouns with prepositions:

• from me '

• from you '

• from him '

• from her '

• from us '

• from you '

• from them '

Showing possession:

The language does not use the verb .

You can make statements of possesion by adding the proper personal ending to the root "'", as below:

• I have (literally: There is to me):

• You have (There is to you):

• He/It has (There is to him/it):

• She has (There is to her):

• We have (There is to us):

• You have (pl) (There is to you):

• They have (There is to them):

To make these negative,

• I don't have

• You don't have

• He/it doesn't have

• She doesn't have

• We don't have

• You don't have (pl)

• They don't have

Misc Notes

• The accent is always on the first sylable unless otherwise noted.
• Adjectives come after the nouns: friendly stranger
• The preposition "from" is, and it is used in much the same was as the word "the", .

Grammar and word information to plug into the formatted bits above

Pronouns

English Sylvan

She (her) . Fea (Bea) He (him) . Fena (Bena) It . Voa (Boa)

We (us) . Mea (?) You . Mab They (f) . Feab They (m) . Fenab

Possessive My (Mine) . Mel (Bel) Your (Yours) . Mal (Bal) Her (Hers) . Feal (Beal) His (His) . Fenal (Benal) Its . Voal (Boal)

Our (Ours) . Meal (?) Your (Yours) . Mabel (Babel) Theirs (f) . Feabel (Beabel) Theirs (m) . Fenabel (Benabel)

Examples: "My tree" would be "Mel mi" "The tree is mine" would be "Mis feli bel"

Questionary words (words you use in questions) Who . Ge What . Goo Where . Gav When . Gal Why . Gle How . Gef

To ask a question without using a question-word, like "Do you dance?", you merely exchange the first letter of the verb into a "G". So the above question would be "Ma Gilu?", which is basically "You dance?"

Verbs Most of the verbs are regular and follow a set pattern. To change the verb to another time, merely add the correct wowel to the end of the word. It's pretty easy, just watch:

Examples: To Be . Fel Is . FelI Was . FelO Has Been . FelU Will Be . FelA Being . FelIR

To Have . Miril Has . MirilI Had . MirilO Have Had . MirilU Will Have . MirilA Having . MirilIR

Plurality Sylvan has a bit more complex plurality rules than English. While English has singular and plural forms, Sylvan has singular, dual and plural. Which means that you have separate versions of "A tree", "Two trees" and "Many trees".

Singular: As written. "A tree" is merely "Mi", as listed in the dictionary.

Dual: A "-p" is added to the end of the word. "A petal" is "Sei", while "Two petals" becomes "Seip". If the word ends in "p", you add "-ip" instrad. This is also the case if the last two letters are already consonants.

Plural:A "-b" is added to the end of the word. "Trees" becomes "Mib". If the word ends on a "b", you add "-ib" instead. This is also the case if the last two letters are already consonants.

Numbers The fey numeric system is based not upon ten, like ours is, but upon five. This means that they count like this: One, two, three, four, five, eleven, twelwe, thirteen, fourteen, etc, so what they call 'eleven' equals what we call six.

The naming system for the numbers is very simple. The numbers one to five have names. The next five numbers have the same names but with a prefix. This prefix changes each five numbers, just like we go from 'twenty' to 'thirty' to 'forty' every ten numbers. Clumsily explained, but perhaps it gets easier to understand by looking at the list:

1 . Mimo 2 . Mimeb 3 . Sesa 4 . Sesob 5 . Seib 6 . NeMimo 7 . NeMimob 8 . NeSesa 9 . NeSesob 10 . NeSeib 11 . NaMimo 16 . NoMimo 21 . VeMimo 26 . VoMimo 31 . LeMimo 36 . LoMimo 41 . LuMimo 46 . LaMimo

Sylvan English Faele Searal ... Good morning

Veli'ir po o siluelves usilu ... It's sunny outside and the rain's stopped

Gav ma siluir? ... Where are you going?

Mirali be elas i me miralkut ba! ... Give me the food or I'll kill you!

Me sileir! ... I'm having fun!

Me u mirili sielvor'var'Vekut. ... I don't have a computer.

Fena miralo be minseis! ... He gave me the finger!

Mel yal feli Kiira ... My name is Kiira

Me mirili NoMimo leleb ... I'm sixteen years old

Ma miralkuto bena ma silumni! ... You killed him you bastard!

Jemirili re mel volieb ... Give me back my undies

Ge milyro ba? ... Who invited you?

Giril ma no sileel? ... Do you have any more wine?

Ysili Uvonkel! Re feli Feler! ... Step aside! I’m Queen!

Galni ma Sylvani? ... Do you speak Sylvan?

Ho, me usieli. ... No, I don’t.

SONGS And here we have some songs which are often sung by the fey, complete with translations. Enjoy.

Salifes var Fae Silyri y rea, silyri y rea, y silur, sile o selui. Silyri silui neal rea, silyri silui neal rea, mea silu y kutae var silualbe.

The song of Life Come to us, come to us, to dancing, fun and song. Come dance with us, come dance with us, to dance to end of time.

Salif var Marivuki'ir Ysili uvonkel! Ysili uvonkel! Jesilyr y vo o voel, volo silumni! Ma usilui neal rea! Ma usali neal rea! Mea marivuki ma saliysuli!

Song of rejection Go away! Go away! Return to earth and mud, low animal! You do not (cannot) dance with us! You do not dance with us! We reject you forever!