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TFU Bluethunder
March 20, 2018

what would be death?

I am still not any closer to learning dovahzul fluently so i call for your help

What would be death?

My friend wants to know death on every language and for a giggle i suggested this one, but im not good at it

Thanks

Category: General


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Ruvgein
March 20, 2018
Death is dinok.

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Hahdremro
March 20, 2018

Here is a list of a bunch of death-related words, including links to each word's Dictionary page. (Click on the word in italics for the Dictionary entry.)

 

Death - Dinok [Dinok]

End (as in end of a life or time) - Oblaan [Oblaan]

Rest (as in "Rest in Peace") - Nok [Nok] (could also be Praan [Praan] depending on usage)

Die - Dir [Dir]

Dying - Viir [Viir]

Kill - Krii [Krii]

Slay - Kriin [Kriin]

Murder - Kriivah [Kriivah]

 

As for your less-than-mature follow up question, I definitely judge for stuff like that, but I'll help anyway, to the best of my ability. Fent aak vothni krosis.

There is no canon word for dildo, of course, as such a thing wouldn't come up in the game or related media. We could use the fanmade words of the Legacy dictionary for that, but Legacy Dovahzul has essentially been rendered obsolete by this point. There's no Legacy word for "dildo" either, but you could say Nizah maasofaniik [Nizah maasofaniik] meaning "false penis." That's a bit of a mouthful though (no pun intended... I think...), so let's see what we can do in canon Dovahzul.

We'll need to get a bit poetic for canon, more so than usual due to the nature of an innuendo in this language. Since there's no canon word for "penis," we can say vithseqeth [vithseqeth] or "serpent-of-bone" instead. Since we're not translating exactly that, let's add the adjective "untrue" to that. "Untrue" would be vovahzah [vovahzah] but that's a bit difficult to say phonetically, so let's say "not true" instead, ni vahzah [ni vahzah]. The full phrase "not true serpent-of-bone" would be ni vahzah vithseqeth [ni vahzah vithseqeth]. That's an accurate enough canonical translation of "dildo" in my opinion, or at least the best we can get in canon Dovahzul!

 

I can't believe I just spent time out of my life translating the word "dildo" into the dragon language from the video game Skyrim. That's time I'm never getting back, but I'm gonna say it was time well spent anyway. Only a bard of my questionable caliber would go to such lengths for such an odd question, I suppose. Hope this helps... somehow!


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DovahKiinZaan
March 20, 2018

Dragons do not have genitalia (they are asexual (even though they don't reproduce)) and as such would not have a word for dildo. 

I'm surprised that English does. 


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TFU Bluethunder
March 20, 2018

And uh,

 

ahem

 

 

dildo...?