Editing Goblin Language

This is a page to keep track of known Goblin words and other linguistic conventions.
==Words==
''(Conjecture is marked with *)''
* aho –
* ahoro – [plural of aho? Both are found in initial position; *this/that?]
* aimaste – *imposter
* 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]
* arek – *dead
* aspat – *(expletive)
* cha – [found in final position; possibly adverb or pronoun]
* chur – nine
* elame – friend
* elame Mirake an – *friend of Goblins
* Elame-Mirak – Goblinfriend
* Elame-Mirake – Goblinfriend [only Niers uses this version, so maybe he got it slightly wrong, but there are apparently many ways to say this]
* fa – two
* faira – want
* fasna – kind (adj.)
* Fraershi – Fraerling / Fraerlings
* funu – only
* Gredathe – Greydath
* hairó – river
* hast – seven
* hax – eight
* he – (copula)
* i / -i- – *and [might just be a regular infix in number formation]
* Ihumina – Human / Humans
* is – *she
* Kanadith – (name)
* kava – speak
* keta – four
* Kinita – Earth
* Kinita-shónu – Earth-girl
* kiskai – *enemy
* kopo – tree
* kos – rock
* kótómehie – appreciate
* kru – *can | *need [initiates a question]
* kufa – *false
* masku – *what if [initiates a question and similarity to 'sku']
* mien – five
* Mirak – Goblin
* Mirak-Elame – Goblinfriend
* Mirake – *Goblins
* mota –
* na – [found in final position, possibly adverb or pronoun]
* naefoma/nӕfoma – help [n. and v.?]
* Naga – Naga [sg. and pl.?]
* o – you [only singular?]
* pach – [adjective or noun]
* Pasai – *Goblin Lord
* pexa – *wait
* pir – ten
* pir-i-ti – eleven
* pir-i-fa – twelve
* pir-i-sif* – *thirteen [this is conjecture as there might be a difference between 11/12 and the rest of the teens like there is so often in natural languages, but then again 11/12 seem pretty regular, which would mean the structure follows pir-i-(number)]
* pru – six
* razivin – [noun or verb]
* se – [found in initial position, possibly modal verb or adverb]
* seh – *you (pl.) | *they [could also be a verb instead]
* s'ho – [might be a contraction of 'se' and 'aho']
* shónu – girl
* shu – water
* shuli – ocean
* shush – wet
* si—(incomplete) –
* sif – three
* sku – *if [seems to initiate the antecedent clause of a conditional sentence]
* smak – very
* smak shush – drenched [lit. 'very wet']
* stan – [possibly a verb]
* tarek – [possibly a verb]
* te –
* tere – [plural of te? comparative of te? Both seem to initiate the consequent clause of a conditional sentence]
* Tilhatan – Titan
* ti – one
* tizan – [possibly a compound of 'ti' (one) and 'zan'; *oneself? *once (=one time)? But from context it seems to be a verb]
* to – *and | *but [initiates a possible ellipsis]
* tok – *need
* uro – *(negation particle)
* va – I
* van – we
* viti – [possibly preposition]
* zan – [possibly reflexive pronoun or preposition]
* zelmalaile – tribe
* zifu – [found in final position, possibly adverb or noun]
* *-li – *(collective noun? derivation suffix)
* *-sh – *(adjective derivation suffix) [part of 'Fraershi'?]

==Sentence Structure==
* Verb-Subject-Object [Kótómehie va o – appreciate I you]
* Auxiliary/ModalVerb-Subject-Verb-(Object) [faira o kava? – want you speak?]
* Subject-Copula-PredicativeExpression [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==
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