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?
Rags: "Pifi tum he semós mol?"[4] What’s the building called?
[Nurse] Callra: "Verna tum he semós ‘hospital’. Fah… kem kere ‘hospital’ he mol?"[4] ___ ___ ___ ___ 'hospital'. ___... ___ ___ 'hospital' ___ ___?
Goblin King: “Se vima o tir pava. Zehie Finri-brahnile he che o. Tok-e-tum po kan o ezan ve tak fu?”[4] (loose translation) You walk through time, child. Fae-touched. How do you stand before me?
unnamed Goblin: “nol-fina tihma? Se tai pilamast nol-fina si chep-kep tihma? Chóvain tihma? Ten pies mapakava’n tan va, kru tithil Mirak Pasai!”[5] ___-___ ___? ___ ___ ___ ___-___ ___ ___-___ ___? ___ ___? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___, ___ ___ ___Goblin Lord!
unnamed Goblin: "o aspat. Ten trok-zech! Trok-zech! Ten hir [Medic], tak!" Oh aspat. ___ ___-___! ___-___! ___ ___ [Medic], ___!

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][6][7][8]
brahnile touched possibly just generally the verb "to touch" [4]
cha found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun [1]
che possibly archaic form of 'cha' [4]
davra found in phrase "davra gat", likely an expletive [4]
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]
ezan possibly related to 'zan' and/or 'tizan' [4]
fah [4]
faira want [1][2]
fasna kind (adj.) [1][2]
Finri Fae [4]
Finri-brahnile Fae-touched [4]
Fraershi Fraerling / Fraerlings [1]
fu [4]
funu only [2]
gat found in phrase "davra gat", likely an expletive [4]
Gredathe Greydath [1]
hairó river [9]
he (copula) [1][2][3][4]
Ihumina Human / Humans [1]
is she [1]
kan [4]
Kanadith (name) [1]
kava speak [1][2]
kem [4]
kere [4]
Kinita Earth [2]
Kinita-shónu Earth-girl [2]
kiskai *enemy [1]
kopo tree [9]
kos rock [9]
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]
mol [4]
mota [1]
na found in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun [1]
naefoma/næfoma help noun and verb? [10][1][11][9]
Naga Naga singular and plural? [1]
o you only singular? [1][2][9][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][6]
pava *time [4]
pexa *wait [1]
pifi *what [4]
po [4]
razivin noun or verb [1]
se found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb [1][4]
seh *you (pl.) / *they found in an ellipsis; could also be a verb instead [1]
selan-mil magic [9]
semós [4]
s'ho might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho' [1]
shónu girl [2]
shu water [9]
shuli ocean [9]
shush wet [9]
si— (incomplete/cut off) [1]
sku *if seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence [1]
smak very [9][3]
smak shush drenched lit. 'very wet' [9]
stan possibly a verb [1]
tak [4]
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]
tir *through [4]
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]
tok-e-tum [4]
tum [4]
Ulmanal Chieftain [3]
uro (negation particle) [1][2][3]
urorouro *ourobouros “A…snake that eats its tail forever. In a circle. A forever pattern.” [7]
va I [1][2][9][3]
van we [1][2][9]
ve possibly archaic form of 'va' [4]
verna [4]
vima *walk [4]
viti possibly preposition [1]
Wivernan Wyverns also singular? [3]
zan possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition [1]
zech blast [3]
zehie [4]
zelmalaile tribe [1][2]
zifu found in final position, possibly adverb or noun [1]
*-ai *(agent noun derivation suffix) possibly óvan → ovanai
-e- / e found in tok-e-tum
-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

[9]

  • 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

Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]

  • “Torek’dale an misghet! Salvit Torek agn!” (’warriors of Torek’dale, salute to Torek!’)[12] 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'),[13] possibly meaning "gargoyle".
  • “eenu, mettva, methke—” appears to be the beginning of a Goblin counting rhyme analogous to eeny, meeny, miny…[13]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Jump up to: 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. ↑ Jump up to: 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. ↑ Jump up to: 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. ↑ Jump up to: 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 4.26 4.27 4.28 4.29 10.34 MGF
  5. ↑ 10.35 (Pt. 1)
  6. ↑ Jump up to: 6.0 6.1 10.18 E
  7. ↑ Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 Goblin Days (Pt. 3) – Vengeance and Talking
  8. ↑ Goblin Days (Pt. 5) – Redblade and Lilbrasi
  9. ↑ Jump up to: 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 10.10 E (Pt. 1)
  10. ↑ 9.68
  11. ↑ 10.09 E
  12. ↑ 10.16 N
  13. ↑ Jump up to: 13.0 13.1 10.27 GMG
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