Sylvan (Avlissian)

Base Common Sylvan (Avlissian) acceptable oyfyhi teefaele adult megadokita adventure seecaeninia adventurer secoonileesh afraid peheekowai agile zereesoyota alcohol aylcosylia all bawleb ally heevairhodray also getambid although offankit And Vahod anger, wrath athanaka angry kaoshodanaka animal kosilumni any quoyzehier arm zereomieme armed imhodlornet armor kelsalisyeeni arrow heetizina as kemoota assassin rahodtzayseenorin aunt loodati back (of torso) eeklaava bad uktaaras balance mayzenibrota bandit gononvano bartender carmarayebermena battle raya beautiful tayeefehod beer habiryia behind (preposition) melehod big goodlemil blade chilehevahod border ganoilatera boring miseridomeh both staboostay boy yeledeleco bow keeashodproda brave hodementa bright vehodentair brother eehoktda bush seilmi But evalla by, near cerhodleyad chest, container nehodmika chest, torso tohodorsti child mirfaeyohod comfortable naenomoda correct nokihiana Council Mithoseantzethodae cousin vanlhodorinda Damn! Kathdshezah danger kutseenktnah dangerous kutseenkntalahi dark heesekhulu darkness heeluseh daughter jahodvata day yohomla defense hegenohininsa dew Talhodae drink berhastota dwarf, dwarven Karakananohoda eight simshmoeta either zahod oohit zahodae Elf (sing.), Elven Nanshih elven (language) Nanshilaedi ever laysulomi exciting rigookarshahti expensive yookarhodae Fall stovatu family mespahiahodae fast mooharato father fenmeevutaer field Nanpohodae fire firikuta fish quithadahod five mayshidi flower sperotasey food tookallela for bespevelila forest Keyleritatha forsaken Karnanado four bahnihot friend zuhodoheevaire friendly zuhaverhodae from Muhodi fruit piriarmutha full of Shohoto full Shadahoto gem oven toovorai girl javayhodeledela god, deity heemihod good faelteva goodbye faelohodogedteva gratitude, thanks nindfotaha grove keynoritathi hair sayradi half hitziyadi hand miemiyed happy kwanaia haven, safe place kelhodornatha (inside area) haven, safe place kelranosta (outside area of fields) haven, safe place kelshallani (outside area of forest) He/She Lohodo/Lahoda healthy neleebritfaelah heart Kichayodho her loaheeda here vakofoe hers sheeloahee Hey! Tss-eya! hill/mountain Dahurohod him loehahod his/its sheedloe house of Krhayta house Krahodhayt How Ayata human adomodoma hungry riayvalefa husband loeleesheehevitho I me if initi in Beti inner binaya in the binalaya journey lensoayata keep (small castle) chorenamikvorthae Land of... Tannay last eeharanay leaf minolonovani left (direction) smeelti less pihotana little ("a little bit") cheesaikotzi long ereehaya Look out! kitsicki! magic fermaenaena magical fermanaenahat man feneesh maybe/perhaps eelaylai me ni mine sheelilay missing loevardi moon luevensani more eeday most yeetiray mother aymayhod mother-in-law aymayhodeehevith much/many heermayni neice vateekthodi (daughter of brother) neice vateektanhodi (daughter of sister) neither menegemili nephew hodvaneekta (son of brother) nephew hodvaneektana (son of sister) never nayholoma new heedaser next leebahay night Ulieulia (pronounced LOO-lee-ah) nine tayshihod No liho Nor honui now sahoavi Oh no! liho sahoavi! OK! sugoisteeva! old satokyuri on eelay once poamichini on the eelayle one hodi Or eeona Orc vleek Order Sederay ours sheelulay out heetzi outer heetzeeya passage aekinoti pleasant, nice pelalki poor hotokaynee potion Selestonethti powerful veleemeehezeeklori quickly meehirayti raven eerayvi rich keelaysalisulay right (direction) yemolayti road, i.e. way Derekayti safe kelmeegayti Sea Niriti season zaminayti seven sheeviayti Shaahesk Shaebifenti shadow tzelulthiti shield megenhodayti short ketlizirtay sick nolayfaeli sister feektanhod six shayshi slow lotitay slowly lotetitay small cheebiteni smart kokomatitay snow shelegaytitay so kasita something medeevary son ilvanhodi song sherlafi spice zenayatati Spring lehodaviviyale star kohavese stranger garthahothoda stronghold, castle chogwemikvonerae stupid tepaysha Summer lakaysa sun verethli sword milarevara tavern, inn feevay teacher/mentor merayhoda ten esrati than kemeo thank you dotleeli, dotleeli sheeliola (my gratitude) that, which Deea the Leea theirs sheatlemay them leemahodaeti there sheemo They Leema thing deevara thirsty Zeelemaho this zanahoda three loasheeto time zilmanutha tired aiyef tourist teeyarayto town, -stono trade (noun) sfidurayto traveler seelensoa tree meetzeth two shtaya ugly meecoahay uncle feelondo undead meeterani luleceto (sing.) meeteranen lulecetu (pl.) us lenunay very chomod wall kaytola watcher, guard shemayana water maimela way diroto We lye weak heelasti weapon neshetlorti Welcome Peelalay What nanaymay When Mitaynsu Where Eyehsa whether aylohta while besmanathi _____ Who darmenay Why liquamdi wife felaeleeshodaneehevithi wind kazayree wine seyeyi Winter hirukfya with nimeala woman (adult elven female) felaelleeshan wonderful hontaiala wrong shegzena Yes fenhi yet besto you (pl) tempa you tapa young teeriro yours (pl) shoolem yours sheelma

This is a work in progress and not officially sanctioned by the team yet

Please don't use this IG yet until its completed and approved. The role, importance, grammar and even the words presented here are still subject to considerable change. This language will be blended of nanshilae and Titanian sylvan. (xiaou)

The grammar of this version of sylvan will be based heavily on that of nanshilae. The words also should be more heavily drawn from nanshilae than the Titanian variety. The goal I believe for this language is to be as similar to nanshilae as german is to english and as similar to titanian sylvan as sanskrit is to german.

Base language

The fey 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 when he became a god.

Because the god Dru'El was fascinated by the spirit population that used to inhabit Avlis the language of his elven people to be the same language that was once spoken by the benevolent nature spirits that inhabited the world. He made due with whatever fragments could be found and filled in the rest himself. Thus, the elven language on Avlis today is a derivative of the spirit language and therefore differs greatly from elven languages on other worlds such as Krynn or Toril or Middle Earth. Likewise, while it bears some lineage parallels to the fey languages it is quite distinct compared to other languages in the O'Man Sylvan line.

The fey races spawned by O'Ma and Titania have long been separated by the ideological differences between their two creator deities. O'Man fey languages start with Sylvan. Just as Latin is the root of many European languages O'Man sylvan is the root language of all O'Man fey languages. Each O'Man fey race will have its own language but it will bear a strong resemblance to this language similar to the way that French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese strongly resemble Latin. These major fey sub-races are: Brownie, Centaur, Dryad, Nixie, Nymph, Pixie, Satyr, Sprite and Sylph.

Similarly Titania has a line of languages which have progressed in a similar fashion although in many other game settings the elvish languages will be more exclusively influenced by Titanian Sylvan. O'man Sylvan is derived from Titanian Sylvan but bears little meaningful resemblance akin to how both German and Sanskrit are Indo-European languages but have little in common.

Speakers of Avlissian Sylvan:

Those beings able to speak O'Man Sylvan would be Centaurs (as their primary language), Druids (as a second language well studied) and O'Man fey races as appropriate for character background. This will be the language of avlissian centaurs, druids and sentient woodland creatures. This will be the "common" of the forest although fey will have their own "common".

Conjunctions:

• And Vahod
• But evalla
• Or eeona
• Nor honui
• yet besto
• so kasita
• for bespevelila

Colors:

• black seokora
• blue kaehola
• green yieroaka
• orange teeopooka
• red eadoma
• white ihyayobana
• brown eatooeosa
• purple oorogamina
• yellow aitehova

Expressions:

Excuse me !

Goodbye

Good day

Good night

Hello!/Well met!

Good day! (Hello!)

Good evening/ Good night!

Of course, certainly

Thank you

You're welcome

I'm sorry

I speak sylvan.

Do you speak sylvan?

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

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

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