DovahKiinZaanAm I wrong by saying that the ancient nords influenced dovahzul like the dragons influenced Nordic? Also it has been observed that the ancient nords can speak dovahzul, but not cyrodillic, obviously going back to the dragon war.
I think there were influences both ways. Dovahzul probably took on a number of Nordic words for things dragons wouldn't naturally have (for example, words for "house" or "husband"), and Nordic likely adopted a number of Dovahzul words for religious or martial use.
The Cyrodiilic language didn't exist until much later.