Goblin Language

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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

[7]

  • tilin = first

[3]

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

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 10.18 E
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Goblin Days (Pt. 3) – Vengeance and Talking
  6. ↑ Goblin Days (Pt. 5) – Redblade and Lilbrasi
  7. ↑ 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)
  8. ↑ 9.68
  9. ↑ 10.09 E
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