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YOL DOVAH KRIID
September 9, 2016

Sailor language

Are there any dovahzul translations for swear words?

Category: Translation


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Ruvgein
September 9, 2016

"Ruth Strun Bah"

"Kren sosaal"

"Faaz nah"

Those are the ones I can think of.


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Frinmulaar
September 9, 2016

Dragon exclamations are fundamentally different from human ones. The meaning of any word used as such must be relevant to the situation; there are no taboos per se.

Canonical examples include:

faaz lit. 'pain'
nah lit. 'fury'
ruth lit. 'rage'

Insults, too, carry meanings that would seem tame to less literal races:

nikriin 'coward'
daanik kendov 'doomed warrior'
mal lir 'little worm'
nivahriin joor 'cowardly mortal'


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DovahKiinZaan
September 9, 2016

There's two types of swearing (in my opinion, there's no dictionary rule on swearing): exclamation and insultion. 

Exclamation could be things like 'ruth' which mean rage. 

An insult could be 'joor', which means mortal. 

But dragons wouldn't necessarily resort to profanity as such. 


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YOL DOVAH KRIID
September 11, 2016
Nox hei dii zeymah