The unnamed Goblin language is one of the few languages in Innworld.
Overview[edit | edit source]
| Goblin Phrases | Confirmed Translation |
|---|---|
| unnamed Goblin: “Kru o naefoma?”[1] | ___ you help? |
| unnamed Goblin: “Seh! Fraershi an. To Ihumina an.”[1] | ___! Of Fraerlings. And of Humans. |
| unnamed Goblin: “O he elame Mirake an? Se o kava cha.”[1] | Are you a friend of Goblins? ___ you speak ___. |
| Cotm: “Van he elame zelmalaile Velan an.”[1] | We are friends of Velan’s tribe. |
| unnamed Goblin: “Velan Fasna he arek!”[1] | Velan the Kind is ___! |
| unnamed Goblin: “Ahoro he pach! S’ho va tizan viti Mirak-Elame na. Masku tok is naefoma?”[1] | ___ is ___! ___ I ___ Goblinfriend. ___ ___ she help? |
| unnamed Goblin: “Pexa! Is he elame Mirake an! Uro faira o tizan elame Gredathe Pasai, Kanadith Pasai?”[1] | ___! She is a friend of Goblins! Do you not want to ___ a friend of Lord Greydath, Lord Kanadith? |
| Kanadith: “Uro is Elame-Mirak. Stan is zan aimaste.”[1] | She is not the Goblinfriend. ___ she ___ ___. |
| unnamed Goblin: “Sku o he elame, Mirak-Elame kufa, te mota. Sku o he kiskai, tere tarek o zifu. Aho razivin Naga an si—”[1] | ___ you are a friend, ___ Goblinfriend, ___ ___. ___ you are ____, ___ ___ you ___. ___ ___ Naga ___— |
| Niers: “O he Elame-Mirake. Uro Kinita-shónu. Funu Erin Solstice! Va he Tilhatan. Kótómehie va o…faira o kava?”[2] | You are the Goblinfriend. You are not an ‘Earth-girl’. You are only Erin Solstice. I am Titan. I appreciate you…do you want to speak? |
| Naumel: “Wivernan kumis. He pan smak. To óvan o selan-mil! [Mage] to Ulmanal. Menti uro zech o va tilin?”[3] | Cold Wyverns. Is very nice. And you do magic! [Mage] and Chieftain. Why you not blast me first? |
Lexicon[edit | edit source]
(Conjecture is marked with *)
| Word | Translation | Annotation | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| aho | [1] | ||
| ahoro | plural of aho? Both are found in initial position; *this/that? | [1] | |
| aimaste | *imposter | [1] | |
| an | (possessive determiner) | always following a group (Fraershi an, Ihumina an, Mirake an, zelmalaile Velan an, Naga an), so it might just be denoting a collective instead | [1][2] |
| arek | *dead | [1] | |
| aspat | *(expletive) | [1][4][5][6] | |
| cha | found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun | [1] | |
| elame | friend | [1][2] | |
| elame Mirake an | friend of Goblins | [1][2] | |
| Elame-Mirak | Goblinfriend | [1] | |
| Elame-Mirake | Goblinfriend | only Niers uses this version, so maybe he got it slightly wrong, but there are apparently many ways to say this | [2] |
| faira | want | [1][2] | |
| fasna | kind (adj.) | [1][2] | |
| Fraershi | Fraerling / Fraerlings | [1] | |
| funu | only | [2] | |
| Gredathe | Greydath | [1] | |
| hairó | river | [7] | |
| he | (copula) | [1][2][3] | |
| Ihumina | Human / Humans | [1] | |
| is | she | [1] | |
| Kanadith | (name) | [1] | |
| kava | speak | [1][2] | |
| Kinita | Earth | [2] | |
| Kinita-shónu | Earth-girl | [2] | |
| kiskai | *enemy | [1] | |
| kopo | tree | [7] | |
| kos | rock | [7] | |
| kótómehie | appreciate | [2] | |
| kru | *can / *need | initiates a question | [1] |
| kufa | *false | [1] | |
| kumis | cold | [3] | |
| masku | *what if | initiates a question and similarity to 'sku' | [1] |
| mentil | why | [3] | |
| Mirak | Goblin | [1][2] | |
| Mirak-Elame | Goblinfriend | [1] | |
| Mirake | *Goblins | [1][2] | |
| mota | [1] | ||
| na | found in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun | [1] | |
| naefoma/næfoma | help | noun and verb? | [8][1][9][7] |
| Naga | Naga | singular and plural? | [1] |
| o | you | only singular? | [1][2][7][3] |
| óvan | do | found in phrase "do magic"; *cast? | [3] |
| Ovanai | mage | lit. *caster if the above is true | [3] |
| pach | adjective or noun | [1] | |
| pan | nice | [3] | |
| Pasai | Goblin Lord | [1][4] | |
| pexa | *wait | [1] | |
| razivin | noun or verb | [1] | |
| se | found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb | [1] | |
| seh | *you (pl.) / *they | found in an ellipsis; could also be a verb instead | [1] |
| selan-mil | magic | [7] | |
| s'ho | might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho' | [1] | |
| shónu | girl | [2] | |
| shu | water | [7] | |
| shuli | ocean | [7] | |
| shush | wet | [7] | |
| si— | (incomplete/cut off) | [1] | |
| sku | *if | seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence | [1] |
| smak | very | [7][3] | |
| smak shush | drenched | lit. 'very wet' | [7] |
| stan | possibly a verb | [1] | |
| tarek | possibly a verb | [1] | |
| te | [1] | ||
| tere | plural of te? comparative of te? Both seem to initiate the consequent clause of a conditional sentence | [1] | |
| Tilhatan | Titan | [2] | |
| tizan | possibly a compound of 'ti' (one) and 'zan'; *oneself? *once (=one time)? But from context it seems to be a verb | [1] | |
| to | and | [1][3] | |
| tok | *need | [1] | |
| Ulmanal | Chieftain | [3] | |
| uro | (negation particle) | [1][2][3] | |
| urorouro | *ourobouros | “A…snake that eats its tail forever. In a circle. A forever pattern.” | [5] |
| va | I | [1][2][7][3] | |
| van | we | [1][2][7] | |
| viti | possibly preposition | [1] | |
| Wivernan | Wyverns | also singular? | [3] |
| zan | possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition | [1] | |
| zech | blast | [3] | |
| zelmalaile | tribe | [1][2] | |
| zifu | found in final position, possibly adverb or noun | [1] | |
| *-ai | *(agent noun derivation suffix) | possibly óvan → ovanai | |
| -i- / i | *and | might just be a regular infix in number formation | see numerals |
| *-li | *(collective noun? derivation suffix) | shu → shuli | |
| *-lin | *(ordinal number suffix) | ti → tilin | |
| *-sh | *(adjective derivation suffix) | part of 'Fraershi'? | shu → shush |
Numbers[edit | edit source]
- ti = one
- fa = two
- sif = three
- keta = four
- mien = five
- pru = six
- hast = seven
- hax = eight
- chur = nine
- pir = ten
- pir-i-ti = eleven
- pir-i-fa = twelve
- tilin = first
Sentence Structure[edit | edit source]
- Verb-Subject-Object
- Kótómehie va o → Appreciate I you
- Auxiliary/ModalVerb-Subject-Verb-(Object)
- Faira o kava? → Want you speak?
- Subject-Copula-Predicative Expression
- O he Elame-Mirake → You are Goblinfriend
- Questions don't modify word order
- Is he elame Mirake an! → She is friend of Goblins!
- O he elame Mirake an? → You are friend of Goblins?
- Adjectives and attributes are postnominal
- Mirak-Elame kufa → Goblinfriend false
- Velan Fasna → Velan Kind
- Gredathe Pasai → Greydath Lord
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
- “Torek’dale an misghet! Salvit Torek agn!” (’warriors of Torek’dale, salute to Torek!’)[10] is a phrase in the "odd quasi-language" of Torek’dale in Erribathe. It shows some striking similarities to Goblin: "an" as possessive determiner, V1 word order, a postnominal particle "agn".
- "garguile" might be a Goblin word used in an alternate reality Forgotten Wing Company phonetic alphabet for G (“Aspat garguile echo” – 'A-G-E'),[11] possibly meaning "gargoyle".
- “eenu, mettva, methke—” appears to be the beginning of a Goblin counting rhyme analogous to eeny, meeny, miny…[11]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 10.06
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 10.08 (Pt. 2)
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 Goblin Days (Pt.1) — The Wedding
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 10.18 E
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Goblin Days (Pt. 3) – Vengeance and Talking
- ↑ Goblin Days (Pt. 5) – Redblade and Lilbrasi
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 10.10 E (Pt. 1)
- ↑ 9.68
- ↑ 10.09 E
- ↑ 10.16 N
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 10.27 GMG