“Atra esterni ono thelduin. " This line is usually spoken by the person of lower status (e. g. a student greeting a teacher), or by the person of higher status as an honour. “Atra du evarínya ono varda. " This is the response of the second person. “Un atra mor’ranr lifa unin hjarta onr. " This is spoken by the first person to finish the greeting. The lines mean “May good fortune rule over you, may the stars watch over you, and may peace live in your heart. "
Adjectives come after nouns. For example, “the white dragon” would be written as “du skulblaka hvitr”, with the adjective (hvitr) coming after the noun (skulblaka). the nouns can be in any order. This applies to adjectives describing who the noun belongs to, so “my hand” would be written as “lam iet” There are no “-ing” verbs. There are past simple (walked, swam), present simple (I walk, I swim) and future simple (I will walk, I will swim). Two nouns can be joined to form one. If this happens, the descriptive noun comes first. For example, “skulblaka” (dragon) is a combination of “skul” (scale) and “blaka” (flapper).
-í : past tense of verbs not ending in -ir. Note that the i has an accent. -o : past tense of verbs ending in -ir. -ar : plural for nouns ending with a consonant. For nouns that end in -consonant-r, add an a between the consonant and the r to form the -ar ending. -ya : plural for nouns ending in a vowel or -vowel-r. For -vowel-r, replace the vowel and the r with -ya. For vowel, replace the vowel with -ya, unless -ya interferes with pronunciation, in which case just add the -ya after the vowel. Vowels “a” and “i” are usually changed to e. For example, “celöbra” becomes “celöbreya”
-r : gives nouns a masculine connotation. -s : makes nouns possessive. -sja : adds “-looking” to the end of adjectives. For example, “ramr” (strong) becomes “ramrsja” (strong-looking). äf- : gives words a malignant connotation. eld- : changes verbs into words of action. For example, “jierda” (break) becomes “eld jierda” (breaker).
elda : gender neutral, indicates great praise. finiarel : young man of great promise. svit-kona : woman of great wisdom. Not attached with a hyphen. vodhr : male honorific, indicates middling praise. vor : male honorific for a close friend.
Brisingr - fire Deloi - earth (not to be confused with delois, a type of plant) Vindr - air, wind Adurna - water Jierda - break Thrysta - thrust, compress Fricai - friend Neiat - not Weohnata - will Haina - harm Ono - you Iet - my (capital i at the start, not lowercase L) Nosu - us Eka - I Vae - we Stenr - stone Reisa - raise Malthinae - bind, hold in place Abr - of Aí - a Un - and Unin - in Thäet - it Shur’tugal - dragon rider
Eka ai shur’tugal un fricai - I am a dragon rider and a friend. Kvetha fricai/fricaya - Greetings, friend/friends (less formal greeting). Vel eïnradhin iet ai Shur’tugal - Upon my word as a rider.
Anything said in the language is unquestionably true. However, this only applies to the exact translation of what is being said: it is possible to say something that is technically true, but mean something completely different. Names have power over the person, creature or item being named. Being a language of truth, anything’s name in the language is it’s true name: it describes it absolutely, and can be used to gain power over the thing that it belongs to. This is why hardly anybody knows the true name of the language itself: it could be used to control the entire language, and by extension, anybody using it. Oaths made in the language cannot be broken. You can’t lie in the language, so any oath or contract that you make in it has to be obeyed. However, you can exploit any loopholes that you may find to get you out of obeying.
