Fairy Common

Base Common Fey Languages acceptable na adult vea adventure secoona adventurer secoonayt afraid pehood after sali agile zerees alcohol aylcol all beleb ally meldo alone mim also gem although off And o anger, wrath ath angry kaos animal silumni any oyzeh arm mieme armed macil armor turma arrow pilin as kemoo assassin unquale aunt looda autumn tu back (of torso) ponti bad ukktae balance mayzen bandit goonva bartender bermen battle ohta beautiful vanya beer limpe before suli behind (preposition) ahtar between toot big mil blade naica book Kutaeminbeb border rima boring ganool both yuyo boy seldo bow quinga branch mie brave ement bright vehir broken ukt brother hanno bush tussa But ka by, near ara chest, container mik chest, torso ambos child mirfae city Milvonkel cold vuk comfortable tiuta correct nanwa Council maqua cousin donya Damn! Iga danger gio dangerous falafay dark lu darkness yuma daughter selye day al death Kutae defense yuma dew rosseah dragon Dar drink sucin dry kele dwarf, dwarven nauco earth (dirt) vo eight tolto either var Elf (sing.), Elven nansha elven (language) nanshina ever oi eternity Saliosuli exciting caurin expensive yaka face sein Fall lantar family nossah fast mahar father fenmaer female fe field resta finger minsei fire kut fish lingwah five lempah flower se food ela foot mivormin for he forest kel forever Saliysuli forsaken hecil four sesob friend meldo friendly havera from ye fruit mir full of acqua full sha fun sile gem carne girl wendi god, deity tome gold (metal?) Lirn gold (color?) Vorai good Faele goodbye mestamara grass ne gratitude, thanks ninfa grove ke hair fassah half perta hand miemin happy naia haven, safe place hopa He/She Fena/Fane healthy faecoi heart huofae hello Soy her loah here vakel hers sholoahee Hey! ey! high vele hill/mountain hurini him loeha his/its holohana house of kral' house kal How Ayt human doma hungry elaf husband ohevitho I wimi if in in Pe inner binay in the B'Le' journey lensoay keep (small castle) cho'ilmikvonel king fenler kingdom (f) Rie kingdom (m) Rien Land of... T' (short for Tan') last oharanay leaf min left (direction) smolti leg mivome less nu library Kalvarkutaeminbebib life Fae light Li little ("a little bit") kotzeti long erohay Look out! kut! low volo magic fer magical fernahay man (male) fen many beb maybe/perhaps laylai me be metal vor mine sholiay missing oevardi moon luvese more no mortal Kutarirfe most yotiray mother femaer mother-in-law aym'ohevithi much/many hormay music selui name yal neice javat'oktay (daughter of brother) neice javat'oktani (daughter of sister) neither gem li nephew yelec'oktay (son of brother) nephew yelec'oktani (son of sister) never nayho new sear next leebay night Ul nine tayshi No ho Nor honi now aho Not U Nut Miu ocean elb of var off vur Oh no! Ai ho! OK! old satuku on ver once poamichi on the olayla one hodi Or I Orc vloky Order Sederay ours sholay out po outer hotzya outside velvo over vel passage aekino pattern Liverel petal Sei pleasant, nice pelkel pollen Fealeai poor hokelay potion seiel powerful veli'mie'lovor queen Feler quickly mohiray rain Siluelve raven orayvi rich kelsalisuli right (direction) yemolay river siluel road, i.e. way Der'eki root mivo of passage safe kelmogay Sea Niri seed sea season zaminay seven hevi Shaahesk hebifen shadow tzeluli she fea shield megani short ketli sick faeli silver (metal?) Lir silver (color?) Vorih sister fektay six shashi sky ve slow loti slowly lotitay small il smart kokomay snow shlegay so casi something medovay son ilfen song salif sorceress (unseelie) Ferfe or Ferife sorceress (seelie) Fefer or Feferi Sorcery Ferfae or Faefer sound Seluin spice zonya Spring le star vese stem sep stranger garthot stronghold, castle cho'ilmikvonel stupid topayshi Summer la sun veli sword mie'lorvor tavern, inn favay teacher/mentor meray ten esri than kemoo thank you dotli, dotla shoila (my gratitude) that, which D' the Le' theirs saveetay them loma there na They Loma thing davar thirsty elef this za thorn lo three loashi time silualbe time (long) Siluelvaralbe tired aiyefo toe mivosei tommorrow salali tourist tayar town, -ton trade (noun) zvidoray traveler solensoa tree mi twilight alul two shotay ugly moocoah uncle fenond undead moteran D'lulec under vol us lenay very cho wall kayta watcher, guard shemayna water el way Dera We Nethnay weak holati weapon lor Welcome Pelay What nani When Mitsu Where Eyeh whether ayloh while b'zemanay' _____ Who daray Why quandi wife feileshan'ohevitay wind kazayro wine seileel Winter uk with neal Wizard Ferivar Kutaeminbeb Wizard (shortened) Ferivar'Kaebeb wizardry Fer var Kutaeminbed woman feileshan wonderful honto wrong zenzen year lele Yes na yesterday saluli yet bes you (pl) ba you ma young toera yours (pl) shoma yours shom

Work in Progress

I don't have team approval on this so don't use this IG yet please. Instead of making 18 fey subrace languages fairy common is a simple answer to the question of what language fey speak. There are still more languages than there are likely available INT bonus points to go around but the priority of a full blood fey's language capacity will probably be ordered like:

• 1.) Their racial language (sprite, nymph, etc)

• 2.) Fairy Common (allowing them to speak to all other fey. Titanian & Avlissian. Seelie & Unseelie)

• 3.) Sylvan (Avlissian type is spoke by Centaurs, Druids and will act as "common" in wild areas among all sentients in residence, Titanian type is spoke by the Titanian court)

• 4.) Special case for Titanians (see below)

• 5.) Nanshilae

• 6.) Common

This is going to alienate the fey from the wider world and while it makes sense & I don't see a way around it I don't see this as being necessarily a problem. In mythology they are always portrayed as a separate society anyway. Maybe we should build on that instead of making them more like really tiny elves.

Special Note Regarding #4 Above: With regards to Titanian fey the priority may change somewhat since both varieties of Sylvan are potentially quite useful to them. Also a consideration of the social status of the Titanian fey in question might be important. If she is of higher status then she may not deal with the wider world and not bother to learn Avlissian Sylvan. A Titanian with no skill or interest at court may be unable to speak Titanian Sylvan although surely this would be highly frowned upon should she ever be formally expected to!

Base language

The fey races of Avlis were created by a god named O'Ma. In his mortal life, he was a human who got instructions from the fairy goddess Titania on how to make fey races when he became a god.

and so on...

Conjunctions:

• And O'
• But eva
• Or ee
• Nor nui
• yet bes
• so cas
• for bespev

Colors:

• black seyo
• blue kaho
• green yeeri
• orange poki
• red adomai
• white yoban
• brown teosa
• purple gamina
• yellow kaite

Expressions:

Excuse me sumimasa!

Goodbye gootay!

Good day faele al!

Good night al ul!

Hello!/Well met! (Hello there) Soy na!

Good day! (Hello!) al ganki!

Good evening/ Good night! ul ganki!

Of course, certainly majiday!

Thank you ninfa!

You're welcome Bevodi!

I'm sorry namo

I speak sylvan. ni dobra fae.

Do you speak Sylvan? Dobra ta fae?

I do not speak sylvan, but I want to learn. ni li doober fae, eval ni retzelath meray.

Verbs:

Infinitives end in -asota. The rest of the word is called the "stem". Therefore, to guard fenlondasota stem is fenlond

to attack	to leave
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
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 == God someone help me here...

For Example:

Singular	Plural If the word ends in a consonant, add "-en". If the word ends in a vowel, add "n".
- house	- houses
- battle	- battles
- field	- fields
- way	- ways

Single/Plural:

If the word ends in a consonant, add "-ia". If the word ends in a vowel, add "n ".

Present Indicative tense

Singular verbs, remove the as ending and use the stem by itself:

• I guard me fenlond

• You guard tapa fenlond

• He/She/It guards lohodo/lahoda/Voa (Boa) fenlond

Plural verbs, add -u to the stem:

• We (us) guard fenlondlyeu

• You guard fenlondmabu

• They guard fenlondfeabu (f) / -fenabu (m)

Present Perfect tense:

In the present perfect tense, it is not necessary to use the pronoun. Thus, I guarded, " me fenlondia ", can be " fenlondia". Accent is on the second syllable in this tense.

• I guarded fenlondme

• You guarded fenlondma

• He guarded fenlondloha

• She guarded fenlondlaho

• We guarded fenlondlye

• You guarded fenlondba

• They guarded fenlondfeab (fenlondfenab)

Future imperfect:

• I will guard me ea fenlond

• You will guard ma ea fenlond

• He/She/It will guard lohodo/lahoda/Voa (Boa) ea fenlond

• We will guard lye ea fenlond

• You (pl) will guard fenlondba

• They will guard fenlonfeab (fenlonfenab)

Converting a verb to a noun:

Take the stem and add the ' ith' ending. will allow some verbs to not follow this

Examples:

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

There is no distinction in sylvan between the gerund (-ing ending) form of a verb turned into a noun and its non gerund form. Thus, hope and hoping are both ..., and you must know the context of the sentence to figure out which is which.

The verb "to be".

The only irregular verb in the avlissian sylvan tongue is the verb "to be". In sylvan, the verb "to be" is implied in the present tense.lohodo/lahoda/Voa (Boa) fenlond lohodo/lahoda/Voa (Boa) fenlond

• I am good. me faelteva

• You are good. ma faelteva

• He is good. lahodo faelteva

• She is good. lahoda faelteva

• We are good. lye faelteva

• You are good. ba faelteva

• They are good. feab / fenab faelteva

Pronouns

1st Person:

• I - me
• We - lye

2nd Person:

• You - ma
• You - ba

3rd Person:

• He/She - lahodo/lahoda
• They - feab / fenab "

Indirect pronouns:

• me be

• you ma

• him ho

• her he

• us lye

• you (pl) ba

• them sen

Indirect pronouns with prepositions:

• from me yem'be

• from you yem'ma

• from him yem'ho

• from her yem'he

• from us yem'lye

• from you yem'ba

• from them yem'sen

Showing possession:

The sylvan language does not use the verb to have in the same way as most other languages. Instead of saying "I have", they are literally saying "There is to me". (eller y be)

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

• I have (literally: There is to me): eller'y'be

• You have (There is to you): eller'y'ma

• He/It has (There is to him/it): eller'y'ho

• She has (There is to her): eller'y'he

• We have (There is to us): eller'y'lye

• You have (pl) (There is to you): eller'y'ba

• They have (There is to them): eller'y'sen

To make these negative, add the word no, " ho " in front of them.

• I don't have: ho eller'y'be

• You don't have: ho eller'y'ma

• He/it doesn't have: ho eller'y'ho (hmm...)

• She doesn't have: ho eller'y'he

• We don't have: ho eller'y'lye

• You don't have (pl): ho eller'y'ba

• They don't have: ho eller'y'sen

Misc Notes

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Orleron wrote: O'Ma and Titania have different versions of sylvan, with O'Ma's version being derived from the same spirit language as elven, and thus related about as closely as Sanskrit and German, which are both Indo-European languages.

Each race within both fairy races has its own dialect of sylvan, which is regarded as a separate language, and is about as close as Italian and Spanish.

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The relation as I see it then for spirit languages follows:

|--Avlissian Spirit Language (dead and no longer known)
 |--Nanshilae (Nanshi & Magya are about as related as German and English)
 |--Magya (The language of arcane magic all wizards learn)
      |---Avlissian Sylvan(built from Nanshilae and Titanian Sylvan)
             |---Sprite
             |---Nymph
             |---Sylph
             |---Dryad
             |---Nixie, etc
             |---Fairy Common (spoken by both Titanian & O'ma fey)
 

I've based much of what I've done here on the page on Nanshilae because I thought that would be appropriate for what this started as. However this language would in all likelihood have migrated more and more to the Titanian influence since it would have to accommodate the Titanians and since the Sylvan that the avlissian fey are likely using to communicate with non-fey races is also in part built from Titanian. I will try to square the grammar and make it blend 50/50 with nanshilae where possible. I've kind of de-hebrewed the nanshi here and added more suffixed vowels like -ay or -i to make it more sing-song on the assumption that the hebraic influence on nanshi is essentially the spirit language since the influence from Titania will probably be cobbled together from other works of fiction regarding Titania/Fey/Sylvan. Also, there is a fair bit of Japanese and Spanish folded into the word list. Finally I found a terse word list of actual "sylvan" so that is where everything else comes from. I expect to not only have to alter the grammar heavily but change the word list considerably, removing much of the present word list and instead of basing the alterations on the root nanshilae from japanese & spanish base it instead off the titanian sylvan language. Anyone is welcome to work on these of course.

Some nonsense sounds from the pixie voice set as found in a google search with my guesses on what they mean. Seems a good phonetic template to me for the style to shoot for:

Fliji yuma boogba! ---You will regret that!

Migio falafay - iga! --- You will die - here!

Soolna? (soyna?) -- Yes?

Wimi, ninfa! -- Oh, thank you!

Namo...fima ni. -- No...I can't.

I really think that as a matter of phonetic style this small list of phrases is something exceptionally appropriate to aspire to emulating. Expect to see these folded into this language somehow. Since this will likely be the "face" of the language of fey on avlis I'm all about making it as stylistically appropriate as possible.