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January 31, 2015

"How to explain in your tongue? The dov have words for such things that joorre do not."

At long last, the Jarl's Bounty returns! The Jarl's Bounty is a wordsmithing event where the community helps create words for the dictionary. Usually, the Jarl's Bounty is a list of English words that don't have Dovahzul translations yet. This time around, we're setting out to create words that only the dov possess.

With its return, we're also switching up how the Jarl's Bounty works. Share your idea for a word in the comments below, and we'll discuss them throughout the day. After 5:00 PM Central Time, the Jarl himself will review your suggestions and add any suitable words to his list. When the list is complete, everyone who participates in the event will receive 60 gold!

The words for this Jarl's Bounty are:

  • Slaat (verb/noun) - to strike with the tail, as punch is to fist and kick is to foot; as a noun, a strike with the tail
  • Lokrein (verb/noun) -  to roar so as to announce one's presence or mark one's territory; such a roar
  • Zel (verb/noun) - to permeate through time, to happen or occur retroactively, so as to have always existed
  • Tein (noun) - kalpa, world-cycle
  • Sahdrog (noun) - a leader or ruler who is weak or undeserving of the title
  • Jahvrii (noun) - dragon heartscale
  • Korosaan (noun) -  an event or occurence that took place in the past
  • Qel (noun) - an event or occurence that will take place, an inevitable fate
  • Miirney - to bestow knowledge of the Thu'um to another; such a gift or blessing
  • Zahrahuth - to demand sacrifice, tribute, or veneration; the demanding of tribute
  • Duviing - to put down, fell, ground, bring down, prevent from flying; metaphorically, to remove someone from power or fall from power, downfall
  • Stiir (verb) - to bare one's teeth
  • Vein (verb) - to flap the wings strongly as a show of force or intimidation
  • Wul (verb) - to fly into or against the wind; metaphorically, to struggle against adversity or fate
  • Daanstrin (adjective) - to be resigned or accepting of one's fate, place, or future; antonym of the above

Comment below with your word ideas and example sentences of how they may be used. Pruzah tinvaak​!



paarthurnax
Administrator
January 31, 2015

My suggestion for most of these words would be to avoid compound words, which is contrary to my normal advice! For example, something like wahroknos "tail-strike" would be okay, but doesn't fit the spirit of creating unique words since "tail-strike" is still constrained to a literal English translation. It could be some simple variation on wahrok like wahrot or wahron. That's not to say any possible words we come up with can't have a sensical English translation, but that we shouldn't limit ourselves to that frame of mind.

An idea I have for "to bring down/prevent from flying" is duviing, lit. "diswing," "unwing," or even "devour wings." Another thought is volok "un-sky," to bring down from the sky.

by paarthurnax
January 31, 2015

My suggestion for most of these words would be to avoid compound words, which is contrary to my normal advice! For example, something like wahroknos "tail-strike" would be okay, but doesn't fit the spirit of creating unique words since "tail-strike" is still constrained to a literal English translation. It could be some simple variation on wahrok like wahrot or wahron. That's not to say any possible words we come up with can't have a sensical English translation, but that we shouldn't limit ourselves to that frame of mind.

An idea I have for "to bring down/prevent from flying" is duviing, lit. "diswing," "unwing," or even "devour wings." Another thought is volok "un-sky," to bring down from the sky.


Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

sahlokinbok means weak leader

Yet another sahlokinbok takes the throne

by Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

sahlokinbok means weak leader

Yet another sahlokinbok takes the throne


Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Alduins devouring of nirn  can be Vulgeinsbah or dark ones wrath

Example in a sentance ( dovahzhul)

Au fin sul do Vulgeinsbah fin lein fen tursak

Maybe the Dark ones fury vulgeinnah

you could make it vuulgeiinah to make it sound more like how a dragon would say it

by Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Alduins devouring of nirn  can be Vulgeinsbah or dark ones wrath

Example in a sentance ( dovahzhul)

Au fin sul do Vulgeinsbah fin lein fen tursak

Maybe the Dark ones fury vulgeinnah

you could make it vuulgeiinah to make it sound more like how a dragon would say it


Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015

An idea I have for "Kalpa" would actually be barely changing it. It sounds dragonic to begin with so I was thinking maybe "Kalfah"  or maybe "Kahfah". I would say "Kaalfah", but that would include the dovahzul word "Kaal". 

I feel like that, even if the word is changed completely, it could still hang on to some origin to the english word of "Kalpa" in the dovahzul definition somehow. Maybe the "al" part or the ending sound of the word is "ah". 

by Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015

An idea I have for "Kalpa" would actually be barely changing it. It sounds dragonic to begin with so I was thinking maybe "Kalfah"  or maybe "Kahfah". I would say "Kaalfah", but that would include the dovahzul word "Kaal". 

I feel like that, even if the word is changed completely, it could still hang on to some origin to the english word of "Kalpa" in the dovahzul definition somehow. Maybe the "al" part or the ending sound of the word is "ah". 


paarthurnax
Administrator
January 31, 2015

Thanks for the suggestions! I think sahlokinbok is perhaps too literal (see above comment about compound words). Vulgeinbah is a good start, perhaps like sahlokinbok a bit too literal. Perhaps something from bahlok "hunger," du "devour," or oblaan "end"?

by paarthurnax
January 31, 2015

Thanks for the suggestions! I think sahlokinbok is perhaps too literal (see above comment about compound words). Vulgeinbah is a good start, perhaps like sahlokinbok a bit too literal. Perhaps something from bahlok "hunger," du "devour," or oblaan "end"?


paarthurnax
Administrator
January 31, 2015

@Mirk, in-universe, I'm not sure which language the term "kalpa" comes from. I think we can rule out a dragon origin, as Paarthurnax uses the term "kalpa" in his dialogue:

Perhaps this world is simply the Egg of the next kalpa? Lein vokiin? Would you stop the next world from being born?

If it were a loanword either from or in Dovahzul, I imagine Paarthurnax would have used the dragon version here instead of "kalpa." So I would say that either kalpa is a dragon word (I don't think it's likely), or their word for it is much different.

by paarthurnax
January 31, 2015

@Mirk, in-universe, I'm not sure which language the term "kalpa" comes from. I think we can rule out a dragon origin, as Paarthurnax uses the term "kalpa" in his dialogue:

Perhaps this world is simply the Egg of the next kalpa? Lein vokiin? Would you stop the next world from being born?

If it were a loanword either from or in Dovahzul, I imagine Paarthurnax would have used the dragon version here instead of "kalpa." So I would say that either kalpa is a dragon word (I don't think it's likely), or their word for it is much different.


ikaram
January 31, 2015

Just two questions: What is that Greenwich time, I mean Central time, and what does kalpa mean?

by ikaram
January 31, 2015

Just two questions: What is that Greenwich time, I mean Central time, and what does kalpa mean?


paarthurnax
Administrator
January 31, 2015

I believe that will be 21:00. "Kalpa" refers to the cycle of the world, where the world is created, and then devoured by Alduin to begin the next kalpa. Here's some further reading.

by paarthurnax
January 31, 2015

I believe that will be 21:00. "Kalpa" refers to the cycle of the world, where the world is created, and then devoured by Alduin to begin the next kalpa. Here's some further reading.


Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Oblaandubok means end of age

and when the time of Oblaandubok comes alduin will devour nirn

by Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Oblaandubok means end of age

and when the time of Oblaandubok comes alduin will devour nirn


ikaram
January 31, 2015

I have got a suggestion for a weak king: sahrog. It takes the first and the last *insert what it's called here* from sahlo (weak) and drog (lord).

by ikaram
January 31, 2015

I have got a suggestion for a weak king: sahrog. It takes the first and the last *insert what it's called here* from sahlo (weak) and drog (lord).


Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015
paarthurnax

If it were a loanword either from or in Dovahzul, I imagine Paarthurnax would have used the dragon version here instead of "kalpa." So I would say that either kalpa is a dragon word (I don't think it's likely), or their word for it is much different.

I agree. I think that if there was a dovahzul word for it, then he would have used it. "Kalpa", in our world, seems to be asian in origin. From India and China it seems. 

by Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015
paarthurnax

If it were a loanword either from or in Dovahzul, I imagine Paarthurnax would have used the dragon version here instead of "kalpa." So I would say that either kalpa is a dragon word (I don't think it's likely), or their word for it is much different.

I agree. I think that if there was a dovahzul word for it, then he would have used it. "Kalpa", in our world, seems to be asian in origin. From India and China it seems. 


Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Kalpa could just be a made up word for the game but it sounds Altmeri

by Kendov sos
January 31, 2015

Kalpa could just be a made up word for the game but it sounds Altmeri


ikaram
January 31, 2015
Kendov sos

Kalpa could just be a made up word for the game but it sounds Altmeri

No, it is from asia. Like from Budhism and something, I saw it on the forum paarthunax showed me. But we are not here to discuss it's origin, but to make a new word in Dovahzul.

by ikaram
January 31, 2015
Kendov sos

Kalpa could just be a made up word for the game but it sounds Altmeri

No, it is from asia. Like from Budhism and something, I saw it on the forum paarthunax showed me. But we are not here to discuss it's origin, but to make a new word in Dovahzul.


Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015

Although its origin might provide some help and ideas for the dovahzul word.

by Mirkrilaar
January 31, 2015

Although its origin might provide some help and ideas for the dovahzul word.


ikaram
January 31, 2015

http://prntscr.com/5zdzjt All Kalpa there is and:

http://prntscr.com/5zdzwc The one we want.

by ikaram
January 31, 2015

http://prntscr.com/5zdzjt All Kalpa there is and:

http://prntscr.com/5zdzwc The one we want.

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