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. 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. 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 wouldnt be missed. (xiaou)

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) Mab

• 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!