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The unnamed [[Goblins|Goblin]] language is one of the few languages in [[Innworld]]. == Overview == {| class="article-table sortable" !Goblin Phrases !Confirmed Translation |- |unnamed Goblin: “Kru o naefoma?”<ref name="10.06">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/03/06/10-06/ 10.06]</ref> |___ you help? |- |unnamed Goblin: “Seh! Fraershi an. To Ihumina an.”<ref name="10.06"/> |___! Of Fraerlings. And of Humans. |- |unnamed Goblin: “O he elame Mirake an? Se o kava cha.”<ref name="10.06"/> |Are you a friend of Goblins? ___ you speak ___. |- |[[Cotm]]: “Van he elame zelmalaile Velan an.”<ref name="10.06"/> |We are friends of Velan’s tribe. |- |unnamed Goblin: “Velan Fasna he arek!”<ref name="10.06"/> |Velan the Kind is ___! |- |unnamed Goblin: “Ahoro he pach! S’ho va tizan viti Mirak-Elame na. Masku tok is naefoma?”<ref name="10.06"/> |___ is ___! ___ I ___ Goblinfriend. ___ ___ she help? |- |unnamed Goblin: “Pexa! Is he elame Mirake an! Uro faira o tizan elame Gredathe Pasai, Kanadith Pasai?”<ref name="10.06"/> |___! 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.”<ref name="10.06"/> |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—”<ref name="10.06"/> |___ 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?”<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/03/20/10-08-pt-2/ 10.08 (Pt. 2)]</ref> |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?”<ref name="Goblin Days 1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/07/28/goblin-days-pt-1-the-wedding/ Goblin Days (Pt.1) — The Wedding]</ref> |Cold Wyverns. Is very nice. And you do magic! [Mage] and Chieftain. Why you not blast me first? |} ==Lexicon== ''(Conjecture is marked with *)'' {| class="article-table sortable" !Word !Translation !Annotation !Instances |- |aho | | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |ahoro | |plural of aho? Both are found in initial position; *this/that? |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |aimaste |*imposter | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |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 |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |arek |*dead | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |aspat |*(''expletive'') | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.18 E">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/06/16/10-18-e/ 10.18 E]</ref><ref name="Goblin Days 3">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/07/30/goblin-days-pt-3-vengeance-and-talking/ Goblin Days (Pt. 3) – Vengeance and Talking]</ref><ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/08/01/goblin-days-pt-5-redblade-and-lilbrasi/ Goblin Days (Pt. 5) – Redblade and Lilbrasi]</ref> |- |cha | |found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |elame |friend | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |elame Mirake an |friend of Goblins | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Elame-Mirak |Goblinfriend | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Elame-Mirake |Goblinfriend |only Niers uses this version, so maybe he got it slightly wrong, but there are apparently many ways to say this |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |faira |want | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |fasna |kind (adj.) | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Fraershi |Fraerling / Fraerlings | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |funu |only | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Gredathe |Greydath | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |hairó |river | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/04/06/10-10-e-pt-1/ 10.10 E (Pt. 1)]</ref> |- |he |(''copula'') | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |Ihumina |Human / Humans | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |is |she | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Kanadith |(name) | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |kava |speak | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Kinita |Earth | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Kinita-shónu |Earth-girl | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |kiskai |*enemy | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |kopo |tree | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |kos |rock | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |kótómehie |appreciate | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |kru |*can / *need |initiates a question |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |kufa |*false | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |kumis |cold | |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |masku |*what if |initiates a question and similarity to 'sku' |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |mentil |why | |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |Mirak |Goblin | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |Mirak-Elame |Goblinfriend | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Mirake |*Goblins | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |mota | | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |na | |found in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |naefoma/næfoma |help |noun and verb? |<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/11/28/9-68/ 9.68]</ref><ref name="10.06"/><ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/03/24/10-09-e/ 10.09 E]</ref><ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |Naga |Naga |singular and plural? |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |o |you |only singular? |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/><ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |óvan |do |found in phrase "do magic"; *cast? |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |Ovanai |mage |lit. *caster if the above is true |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |pach | |adjective or noun |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |pan |nice | |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |Pasai |Goblin Lord | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.18 E"/> |- |pexa |*wait | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |razivin | |noun or verb |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |se | |found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |seh |*you (pl.) / *they |found in an ellipsis; could also be a verb instead |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |selan-mil |magic | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |s'ho | |might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho' |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |shónu |girl | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |shu |water | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |shuli |ocean | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |shush |wet | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |si— | |(incomplete/cut off) |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |sku |*if |seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |smak |very | |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |smak shush |drenched |lit. 'very wet' |<ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |stan | |possibly a verb |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |tarek | |possibly a verb |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |te | | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |tere | |plural of te? comparative of te? Both seem to initiate the consequent clause of a conditional sentence |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Tilhatan |Titan | |<ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |tizan | |possibly a compound of 'ti' (one) and 'zan'; *oneself? *once (=one time)? But from context it seems to be a verb |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |to |and | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |tok |*need | |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Ulmanal |Chieftain | |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |uro |(''negation particle'') | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |urorouro |*ourobouros |“A…snake that eats its tail forever. In a circle. A forever pattern.” |<ref name="Goblin Days 3"/> |- |va |I | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/><ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/><ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |van |we | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/><ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> |- |viti | |possibly preposition |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |Wivernan |Wyverns |also singular? |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |zan | |possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |zech |blast | |<ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> |- |zelmalaile |tribe | |<ref name="10.06"/><ref name="10.08 Pt. 2"/> |- |zifu | |found in final position, possibly adverb or noun |<ref name="10.06"/> |- |*-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 == * ''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 <ref name="10.10 Pt. 1"/> * ''tilin'' = first <ref name="Goblin Days 1"/> ==Sentence Structure == *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 == * “Torek’dale an misghet! Salvit Torek agn!” (’warriors of Torek’dale, salute to Torek!’)<ref name="10.16">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/06/02/10-16-n/ 10.16 N]</ref> 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'),<ref name="1.27">[https://wanderinginn.com/2024/11/13/10-27-gmg/ 10.27 GMG]</ref> possibly meaning "gargoyle". * “eenu, mettva, methke—” appears to be the beginning of a Goblin counting rhyme analogous to ''eeny, meeny, miny…''<ref name="1.27"/> ==References== {{Refbox}} [[Category:Goblins]]
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