Sylvan (Titanian)

Base Common Nanshilae acceptable mara acorn Mia adult hanu adventure caure adventurer caurena afraid rucin after Sali agile ataformaiti alcohol miru all Beleb ally El alone Mim also yando although omu And O anger, wrath ruseah angry rusay animal Silumni any illi arm Mieme armed macil armor turma arrow pilin as ve assassin unquale aunt atara autumn Tu back (of torso ) ponti bad Ukkutae balance meiva bandit kishedan bartender yulnaedan battle ohta beautiful vanima beer limpe behind (preposition) ahtar before suli between toot big mil blade naica book kutaeminbeb border rima boring ujere both yuuyo boy seldo bow quinga branch mie brave ement bright vehir broken ukt brother toror bush alda But ka by, near ed chest, container mik chest, torso ambos child mirfae city milvonkel cold vuk comfortable tiuta correct nanwa Council maqua cousin selen Damn! Iga danger gio dangerous falafay dark mori darkness du daughter tinu day Al death Kutae defense yuma dew rosse dragon sgiathatch drink yulna dry kele dwarf, dwarven naug earth Vo eight either var Elf (sing.), Elven edhel elven (language) edhelshina eternity oria ever oio exciting caurin expensive yaka Face anta Fall lanta family nosse fast mahar father Fenmaer female Fe field lad finger minsei fire kut fish lingwe five flower se food ela foot mivormin for he forest kel forever saliysuli forsaken hecil four friend mellon friendly havera from ye fruit mir full of acqua full quanta fun sile gem leuthil girl wendi god, deity tomay gold (metal?) Lirn gold (color?) Vorai good Faele goodbye maramesta grass Ne grass (tall) Na gratitude, thanks ninfa grove Ke hair findl half perta hand miemin happy naia haven, safe place lond He/She ro/re healthy faecoi heart corm her he here Vakel hers he Hey! ey! high vele hill/mountain amon him ho his/its ho/ta house of kralt house Kal house (noble) Kral How sut human edan hungry elaf husband verno I me if manka in Pe inner yassene in the e'i' journey lema keep (small castle) chomikard king Fenler kingdom (f) Rie kingdom (m) Rien Land of... ndoren' last tella leaf Min leg Mivome left (direction) hyarya less Nu library Kalvarkutaeminbebib life Fae light Li little ("a little bit") ai long an Look out! en n'e Low volo magic Fer magical templa male Fen many Beb maybe/perhaps laylai me be metal Vor mine haba missing oevardi moon Luvese more No mortal Kutarirfe most yotiray mother Femaer mother-in-law atara much/many nir music Selui name Yal neice javakota neither rine nephew javakoten never nayho new Sear next ento night Ul nine No Ho Not U now sii' nut Miu ocean Elb of var off vur Oh no! Ai ho! OK! cha'na old Satuku on ver once ero on the no'i' one Or I Orc orqu Order sederay ours lye out Po outer eruumea outside Velvo over Vel passage tarna pattern Liverel petal Sei pleasant, nice pelkel pollen Fealeai poor hokelay potion seiel power val queen Feler quickly mohiray rain Siluelve raven mordulin re- (to do again) je- rich alya right (direction) forya river Siluel road, i.e. way of passage malle' root Mivo Sea ear season zaminay seed Sea seven Shaahesk shadow dae she fea shield tinechor short ai sick faeli silver (metal?) Lir silver (color?) Vorih sister seler' six sky Ve slow loti slowly lotitay small Il smart noldo snow losa so ikotane something medovay son utinu song Salif sorceress (unseelie) Ferfe or Ferife sorceress (seelie) Fefer or Feferi Sorcery Ferfae or Faefer sound Seluin spice zunia Spring Le star Vese stranger garthod stem Sep stone Von stronghold, castle chomikvonel stupid topayshi Summer La sun Veli sword Mie'Lorvor tavern, inn faav teacher/mentor meray ten than kemu thank you dotasho that, which tanya the -s (added to the end of the word) theirs ront them sen there eller They ron thing nat thirsty Elef this sina thorn lo three time Silualbe time (long) Siluelvaralbe tired aiyefo To Y Toe Mivosei Tomorrow Salali tourist tayar town, ostar trade (noun) manika traveller solenso tree Mi Twilight Alul two ugly uvanima uncle fenond undead moterand under Vol us lye very sai wall ram watcher, guard shamaya water El way men We lye weak holati weapon lor Welcome creoso Wet Ele What mani When iire Where manke whether ayloh while re'na Who ya Why mankoi wife verne wind sul wine sileel Winter Uk with neal Wizard Ferivar Kutaeminbeb Wizard (shortened) Ferivar'Kaebeb wizardry Fer var Kutaeminbed woman (adult female) edainme wonderful elmenda wrong raika year lele Yes Hi yesterday saluli yet am' you (pl) ba you ma young sear yours (pl) lle yours lle

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. After a fair bit of discussion and forum searching I've got a road map to go by. The language on this page will be largely unused IG outside perhaps of events involving the Titanian nobility and court yet will be a crucial basis of other fey languages on avlis. The other languages I am making are: Avlissian Sylvan (The language of centaurs, druids and all sentient forest beings if they have the leftover INT to learn it) and Fairy Common (the language all fey speak after their racial language).

Titanian sylvan will probably only be used in game as the language of the Titanian nobility and the titanian court so I won't be messing too much with its vocabulary or grammar and it may never be comprehensive. From a game mechanics perspective it will be the language the titanian subrace languages will be derived from. Any other likely speakers of this will probably be selecting one of the other languages instead. Opinions welcome in the discussion area. I just put all this out here so it wouldn't be missed. (xiaou)

The vocabulary list is not the primary source for this article. For now these are the LEAST desirable vocabulary words in the article. Those in the main body of the article should take priority. It is important to note that most of this work is copied from the vast amount of work done here: http://www.elftown.com/_Sylvan Everything else is place holders yanked from Tolkein elven until I can get a consistent sense of the style the people at elftown have undertaken so that I can then modify it with some consistency to reflect the influence nanshilae would have had on this language in our setting.

Base language

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

Colors:

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

Pronouns

1st Person:

• I - '
• We - '

2nd Person:

• You - '
• You -'

3rd Person:

• He/She - Fena/Fea
• They -

Indirect pronouns:

• me Ei

• you '

• him Bena

• her Bea

• us '

• you (pl) Mabwrong

wrong

• them(f) Feab

• them(m) Fenab

Indirect pronouns with prepositions:

• from me '

• from you '

• from him '

• from her '

• from us '

• from you '

• from them '

Showing possession:

• 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"

Grammar and word information to plug into the formatted bits above

Pronouns

• English Sylvan

• It Voa (Boa)

• We (us) Mea (?)

• You Mab

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 vowel 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!

Done for now

I'm done with this one for now. I'm say make a few small bridges to nanshilae like grammar and alter the vocabulary a bit and this is as useful as we are likely to ever need on any scale. It could stand to have some formatting but This is probably more than adequate for our purposes for now. Cheers.