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Goblin Language

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The Goblin language is one of the few languages in Innworld. One dialect of it is named Low Goblin[1]. This implies that another dialect exists called High Goblin.

Overview edit edit source

Goblin Phrases Confirmed Translation
unnamed Goblin: “Kru o naefoma?”[2] ___ you help?
unnamed Goblin: “Seh! Fraershi an. To Ihumina an.”[2] ___! Of Fraerlings. And of Humans.
unnamed Goblin: “O he elame Mirake an? Se o kava cha.”[2] Are you a friend of Goblins? ___ you speak ___.
Cotm: “Van he elame zelmalaile Velan an.”[2] We are friends of Velan’s tribe.
unnamed Goblin: “Velan Fasna he arek!”[2] Velan the Kind is ___!
unnamed Goblin: “Ahoro he pach! S’ho va tizan viti Mirak-Elame na. Masku tok is naefoma?”[2] ___ is ___! ___ I ___ Goblinfriend. ___ ___ she help?
unnamed Goblin: “Pexa! Is he elame Mirake an! Uro faira o tizan elame Gredathe Pasai, Kanadith Pasai?”[2] ___! 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.”[2] 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—”[2] ___ 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?”[3] 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?”[4] Cold Wyverns. Is very nice. And you do magic! [Mage] and Chieftain. Why you not blast me first?
Rags: "Pifi tum he semós mol?"[5] What’s the building called?
[Nurse] Callra: "Verna tum he semós ‘hospital’. Fah… kem kere ‘hospital’ he mol?"[5] ___ ___ ___ ___ '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?”[5] (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!”[6] ___-___ ___? ___ ___ ___ ___-___ ___ ___-___ ___? ___ ___? ___ ___ ___ ___ ___, ___ ___ ___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 [2]
ahoro plural of aho? Both are found in initial position; *this/that? [2]
aimaste *imposter [2]
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 [2][3]
arek *dead [2]
aspat *(expletive) [2][7][8][9]
brahnile touched possibly just generally the verb "to touch" [5]
cha found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun [2]
che possibly archaic form of 'cha' [5]
davra found in phrase "davra gat", likely an expletive [5]
elame friend [2][3]
elame Mirake an friend of Goblins [2][3]
Elame-Mirak Goblinfriend [2]
Elame-Mirake Goblinfriend only Niers uses this version, so maybe he got it slightly wrong, but there are apparently many ways to say this [3]
ezan possibly related to 'zan' and/or 'tizan' [5]
fah [5]
faira want [2][3]
fasna kind (adj.) [2][3]
Finri Fae [5]
Finri-brahnile Fae-touched [5]
Fraershi Fraerling / Fraerlings [2]
fu [5]
funu only [3]
gat found in phrase "davra gat", likely an expletive [5]
Gredathe Greydath [2]
hairó river [10]
he (copula) [2][3][4][5]
hej [11]
Ihumina Human / Humans [2]
is she [2]
kan [5]
Kanadith (name) [2]
kava speak [2][3]
kem [5]
kere [5]
Kinita Earth [3]
Kinita-shónu Earth-girl [3]
kiskai *enemy [2]
kopo tree [10]
kos rock [10]
kótómehie appreciate [3]
kru *can / *need initiates a question [2]
kufa *false [2]
kumis cold [4]
masku *what if initiates a question and similarity to 'sku' [2]
mentil why [4]
Mirak Goblin [2][3]
Mirak-Elame Goblinfriend [2]
Mirake *Goblins [2][3]
mol [5]
mota [2]
na found in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun [2]
naefoma/næfoma help noun and verb? [12][2][13][10]
Naga Naga singular and plural? [2]
o you only singular? [2][3][10][4]
óvan do found in phrase "do magic"; *cast? [4]
Ovanai mage lit. *caster if the above is true [4]
pach adjective or noun [2]
pan nice [4]
Pasai Goblin Lord [2][7]
pava *time [5]
pexa *wait [2]
pifi *what [5]
po [5]
razivin noun or verb [2]
se found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb [2][5]
seh *you (pl.) / *they found in an ellipsis; could also be a verb instead [2]
selan-mil magic [10]
semós [5]
s'ho might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho' [2]
shónu girl [3]
shu water [10]
shuli ocean [10]
shush wet [10]
si— (incomplete/cut off) [2]
sku *if seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence [2]
smak very [10][4]
smak shush drenched lit. 'very wet' [10]
stan possibly a verb [2]
tak [5]
tarek possibly a verb [2]
te [2]
tere plural of te? comparative of te? Both seem to initiate the consequent clause of a conditional sentence [2]
Tilhatan Titan [3]
tir *through [5]
tizan possibly a compound of 'ti' (one) and 'zan'; *oneself? *once (=one time)? But from context it seems to be a verb [2]
to and [2][4]
tok *need [2]
tok-e-tum [5]
tum [5]
Ulmanal Chieftain [4]
uro (negation particle) [2][3][4]
urorouro *ourobouros “A…snake that eats its tail forever. In a circle. A forever pattern.” [8]
va I [2][3][10][4]
van we [2][3][10]
ve possibly archaic form of 'va' [5]
verna [5]
vima *walk [5]
viti possibly preposition [2]
Vizikashónu firebringer / woman with the power of fire [11]
Wivernan Wyverns also singular? [4]
zan possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition [2]
zech blast [4]
zehie [5]
zelmalaile tribe [2][3]
zifu found in final position, possibly adverb or noun [2]
*-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

[10]

  • tilin = first

[4]

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!’)[14] 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'),[15] possibly meaning "gargoyle".
  • “eenu, mettva, methke—” appears to be the beginning of a Goblin counting rhyme analogous to eeny, meeny, miny…[15]

References edit edit source

  1. ↑ Interlude-Arcsinger's Memories
  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 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 2.57 2.58 2.59 2.60 2.61 2.62 10.06
  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 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 10.08 (Pt. 2)
  4. ↑ 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 Goblin Days (Pt.1) — The Wedding
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 10.34 MGF
  6. ↑ 10.35 (Pt. 1)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 10.18 E
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Goblin Days (Pt. 3) – Vengeance and Talking
  9. ↑ Goblin Days (Pt. 5) – Redblade and Lilbrasi
  10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.10 E (Pt. 1)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 10.38 E
  12. ↑ 9.68
  13. ↑ 10.09 E
  14. ↑ 10.16 N
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 10.27 GMG
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