Hello to all Dovahzul Speakers!

There was an idea put forward to create a group or community of gamers capable of playing their games entirely in their selected "Mythic Level language". From general polling, it was determined that Dragon speak was among the top three most desired. 

To that end, I have compiled a list of just over 200 words that cover many different gaming terms, from card games to board games and numerous others.

A request to the Community - Help me finish translating the list! If a direct translation is not available, a reasonable synonym can be used. I just request that if a synonym is used please include the logic for it. 

(As translations are made I will be updating the list and crediting people who helped flesh it out.)

Raw list:

"on this place"    -    het    "here"    -    Shadowcaster
"pick up"    -    ofaal    "receive"    /    daal    "return"    -    Paarthurnax
"remove    from play"    -    govey nol lein    "remove from the world"    -    Paarthurnax
"run out"    -    evenaar    "extinguish"    -    Paarthurnax
ability        -    suleyk    "power"        -    Paarthurnax
ace        -    diist    "first"    -    Shadowcaster
activate    -    dreh dii fen    "do/does my/mine will"    -    Shadowcaster
add        -    drun pahvoth    "bring together"    -    Shadowcaster
affect        -    droz    -    Shadowcaster
after        -    mindin    -    Paarthurnax
air    -    su    -    Sahkrahfaas
all        -    pah    -    Paarthurnax
alternate    -    oris    "substitute"    -    Shadowcaster
apply        -    peylaan    -    Shadowcaster
attach        -    gevoth    "connect"    -    Shadowcaster
attack        -    nos    "to strike"    -    Paarthurnax
attribute    -    trahkiin    -    Shadowcaster
bad        -    vokul    "evil" / bein    "foul" / vopruzah    "un-good"    -    Paarthurnax
basic        -    usnaan    "foremost"    -    Shadowcaster
battle        -    grah    -    Paarthurnax
battlefield    -    frod    -    Paarthurnax
beat        -    vik    "to defeat"    -    Paarthurnax
become        -    meyz    -    Paarthurnax
before        -    us    -    Paarthurnax
begin        -    ativaal    "to promote"    -    Kendovahrol   
beginning    -    
block        -    spaan    "shield/to shield"    -    Paarthurnax
break        -    kren    -    Paarthurnax
card        -    golgaaz    "tablet"    -    Kendovahrol
cast        -    fusk    -    Kendovahrol
chain        -    gron    "bind/bindings"    -    Paarthurnax
chain reaction    -    bo    "flow"    -    Paarthurnax
chair        -    praal    "to sit/seat"    -    Paarthurnax
change        -    oris    "to substitute"    -    Shadowcaster
check        -    frolk    -    Shadowcaster
choice        -    poguk    -    Kendovahrol
club        -    aakoraak    "cane"    -    Shadowcaster
come        -    bo    -    Shadowcaster
common        -    vonum    -    Shadowcaster
continue    -    fahbo    -    Shadowcaster
copy        -    fiik    "mirror"    -    Paarthurnax
counter (to negate)        -    vokul    "undo"        -    Paarthurnax
counter (token)        -
creature    -    sivaas    "beast"        -    Paarthurnax
creature "hideous" -    sunvaar    "a monstrous beast"    -    Paarthurnax
creature "very terrible" -    lot sunvaar "great beast"    -    Paarthurnax
current        -    nu    "now/present"    -    Paarthurnax
dark        -    vul    -    Paarthurnax
deal        -    ofan    "to give"    -    Paarthurnax
dealer        -    ofaniik    "giver"        -    Paarthurnax
death        -    dinok    -    Paarthurnax
deck        -    lahvu    "army" "gathered/mustered many"    -    Paarthurnax
defend        -    spaan    "shield/to shield"    -    Paarthurnax
defense        -    spaan    "shield"    -    Paarthurnax
destroy        -    al    -    Paarthurnax
diamond        -    viin sogaal    "Shine stone"    -    Kendavahrol
dice        -    dez golli    "fate stones"    -    Kendovahrol
die (noun)    -    dez gol    "fate stone"    -    Kendovahrol
die (verb)    -    dir    -    Paarthurnax
direct        -    mor    -    Shadowcaster
discard        -    govey nol haaliil    "remove from your hand" / vohaal "unhand"    -    Paarthurnax
divine        -    revak    "sacred"    -    Paarthurnax
down        -    tum    -    Paarthurnax
draw        -    ofaal    "to receive" / ofaal kotin haal    "receive into hand"    -    Paarthurnax
duel        -    ziinkrif    -    Kendovahrol
earth        -    gol    -    Paarthurnax
eat        -    naak    -    Paarthurnax
effect        -    suleyk    "power"    -    Paarthurnax
element        -    sil    "soul"    -    Paarthurnax
empty        -    nil    "void"    -    Paarthurnax
enchant        -    ensosin    "to bewitch"    -    Paarthurnax
end        -    oblaan    -    Paarthurnax
ending        -    oblaan    -    Paarthurnax
enemy        -    paal    "foe" / hokoron    "enemy"    -    Paarthurnax
entire        -    pah    "all"    -    Paarthurnax
entire hand    -    pah haalii    "all (of) his/her hand"    -    Paarthurnax
equip        -    kod    -    Paarthurnax
every        -    enook    "each"    -    Paarthurnax
expire        -    liiv    "to wither"    -    Paarthurnax
facedown    -    tum    "down" / luft-tum "face-down" / vonun    unseen    -    Paarthurnax
faceup        -    luft alok    "face raised" / nun "visible"    -    Paarthurnax
fail        -    funt    -    Paarthurnax
field        -    frod    -    Paarthurnax
final        -    laat    "last"    -    Paarthurnax
fire        -    yol    -    Paarthurnax
free        -    stin    -    Paarthurnax
friendly    -    fahdon    "friend" / fahdonus    "friendly"    -    Paarthurnax
from        -    Nol    "From"    -    Kendovahrol
fusion        -    aav    "to join/union"    -    Paarthurnax
gain        -    ofaal    -    Shadowcaster
game        -    bovit    "adventure"    -    Kendovahrol
gameplay    -    bovitkiird   "Game+play"    -    Shadowcaster
give        -    ofan    -    Kendovahrol
good        -    pruzah / kul    -    Kendovahrol
grave        -    graad    -    Kendovahrol
graveyard    -    graad fod    "grave field"    -    Kendovahrol
grow        -    wahl    "raise"    -    Kendovahrol
hand        -    haal    -    Sahkrahfaas
have        -    piraak    "to possess"    -    Liis
heart        -    hil    -    Kendovahrol
hidden        -    vonun    -    Kendovahrol
high        -    lok    -    Kendovahrol
hit        -    nos    "strike"    -    Shadowcaster
I        -    zu'u    -    Sahkrahfaas
immediately    -    nu    "Now"    -    Shadowcaster
inaction "pass"    -    vod    "pass"    -    Kendovahrol
into        -    kotein    -    Kendovahrol
jack        -    okaazdok    "sea-dog"    -    Kendovahrol
king        -   jun    -    Kendovahrol 
knight        -    keymun    "horseman"    -    Shadowcaster
land        -    gol    -    Kendovahrol
leech        -    lun    -    Kendovahrol
less        -    sahlo    -    Kendovahrol
level        -    suleyk    "power"    -    Kendovahrol
life        -    laas    -    Sahkrahfaas
light        -    kun    -    Shadowcaster
limit        -    drem    "restraint"    -    Kendovahrol
lose        -    saan    -    Kendovahrol
low        -    mal    "small"    -    Kendovahrol
magic        -    lu    -    Kendovahrol
many        -    pogaan    -    Shadowcaster
mate        -    dinok    "end/death"    -    Kendovahrol
maximum        -   naar    "top"    -    Kendovahrol 
minimum        -    
mode        -    
monster        -    sivaas    "beast"    -    Sahkrahfaas
more        -    
move        -    
my        -    dii    /    "-i" (suffix)    -    Sahkrahfaas
normal        -    
not        -    
number        -    
occur        -    
occurance    -    
option        -    
organized    -    
over        -    
paige        -    
piece        -    
pile        -    
play        -    kiird    -    Shadowcaster
play (poetic)        -    tinvaatey    (Literally: "an oral story")    -    Shadowcaster
player        -    kirdaan    /    droliik    (these are interchangeable)    -    Shadowcaster
playing        -    
point        -    
precedence    -    
prevent        -    
previous    -    
protect        -    
protected    -    
queen        -    
random        -    
rare        -    
refresh        -    
remove        -    
rend        -    
reply        -    
restrict    -    
result        -    
return        -    
reveal        -    
reverse        -    
ritual        -    
roll        -    
rotate        -    
rule        -    
rules        -    
sacrifice    -    zahrahmiik    -    Kendovahrol
search        -    tovit    -    Kendovahrol
select        -    eylok nol pah    "sort from all"    -    Kendovahrol
send        -    
set/place/put down    -    
shuffle        -    paagluf    -    Kendovahrol
side        -    
skip        -    
spade        -    deytoniir    -    Kendovahrol
special        -    
spell        -    
spirit        -    zii    -    Sahkrahfaas
stack        -    
stand        -    kriist    -    Kendovahrol
start        -    
stop!        -    
strength    -    mulaag    -    Sahkrahfaas
strike        -    nos    -    Kendovahrol
style        -    vensedren    -    Kendovahrol
subtract    -    
suit        -    
summon        -    bel    -    Kendovahrol
table        -    
take        -    
tap        -    
target        -    
team        -    
then        -    
throw        -    fusk    -    Kendovahrol
to/towards    -    
token        -    
trap        -    
turn        -    dreni    "my action"    /    dii drenne    "my actions"    -    Kendovahrol
type        -    
underneath    -    
up        -    
update        -    
value        -    
victor        -    kroniid    -    Kendovahrol
victory        -    krongrah    -    Kendovahrol
view        -    
water        -    
wind    -    ven    -    Sahkrahfaas
with        -    voth    -    Sahkrahfaas
yard        -    
you        -    hi    -    Sahkrahfaas
your        -    hin    -    Sahkrahfaas
zone        -    hofkah    "farm" (field)    -    Kendovahrol

Needed Phrases for gaming:

I activate *efffect/card/ability*
I end my turn
I draw a card
I refresh my field
I attack! / I attack with *name*
This card is equipped to *name*
You lose *number* lifepoints
I lose *number* lifepoints*
You gain *number lifepoints
I gain *number* lifepoints
I pass my turn
I sacrifice this card / I *send this card to the graveyard*
 

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Sounds like a cool project! For the sake of longevity, you'll want to stick to canon as closely as possible. The good news is most the combat-related words will have direct or close to direct translations. For more technical terms, you'll really have to get creative and stretch some words.

"pick up" - ofaal 'receive' could work, or daal 'return'
"remove from play" - govey nol lein 'remove from the world'
"run out" - evenaar 'extinguish'
ability - suleyk 'power'
after - mindin 'after'
all - pah 'all'
attack - nos 'to strike'
bad - vokul 'evil', bein 'foul', vopruzah (lit. 'un-good')
battle - grah 'battle'
battlefield - frod 'battlefield'
beat - viik 'to defeat'
become - meyz 'to become'
before - us 'before'
block - spaan 'shield / to shield'
break - kren 'to break'
chain - gron 'bind/bindings'. In the sense of 'chain reaction', probably bo 'flow'
chair - praal 'to sit / seat'
copy - fiik 'mirror'
counter - vo 'undo'
creature - sivaas 'beast'
creature - sunvaar 'beast' (a monstrous beast)
creature - sunvaar 'beast' again, could say lot sunvaar 'great beast'
current - nu 'now / present'
dark - vul 'dark'
deal - ofan 'to give'
dealer - ofaniik 'giver'
death - dinok 'death'
deck - lahvu 'army' ('gathered/mustered many') is the closest I can think of
defend - spaan 'shield / to shield'
defense - spaan 'shield'
destroy - al 'to destroy'
diamond
dice
die (noun)
die (verb) - dir 'to die'
direct
discard - govey nol haaliil 'remove from your hand', alternatively vohaal 'unhand'
divine - revak 'sacred'
down - tum 'down'
draw - ofaal 'to receive', ofaal kotin haal 'receive into hand'
earth - gol 'earth'
eat - naak 'to eat'
effect - suleyk 'power'
element - perhaps sil 'soul' to describe something's inner nature
empty - nil 'void'
enchant - ensosin 'to bewitch'
end - oblaan 'to end'
ending - oblaan 'end / ending'
enemy - paal 'foe' or hokoron 'enemy'
entire - pah 'all' (pah haalii 'all (of) his or her hand / his or her entire hand')
equip - kod 'to equip'
every - enook 'each'
expire - liiv 'to wither'
facedown - tum 'down', luft-tum 'face-down', vonun 'unseen'
faceup - luft alok 'face raised', nun 'visible'
fail - funt 'to fail'
field - frod 'field / battlefield'
final - laat 'last'
fire - yol 'fire'
free - stin 'free'
friendly - fahdon 'friend', fahdonus 'friendly' not canon but very close
fusion - aav 'to join / union'
 

I'll post more soon.

paarthurnax

Sounds like a cool project! For the sake of longevity, you'll want to stick to canon as closely as possible. The good news is most the combat-related words will have direct or close to direct translations. For more technical terms, you'll really have to get creative and stretch some words.

Paarthurnax, you are just awesome. I seriously did not expect that kind of response! (Let alone that fast!) Thank you so much!

id love to hear more about the project, how it works, where it occurs how i can join in etc =)

Orkar Isber

id love to hear more about the project, how it works, where it occurs how i can join in etc =)

At the moment it is a standalone, however a website to pull gamers together for this is already being put together. The future site is hoped to be "www.GamingLinguistics.com". We are probably going to use a free site hosting service like webs.com until we get some real steam going behind us.

As for how it works, the idea is to have players learn the language through gameplay. A lot of language learning is done through  association, repetition, variation and interpersonal dynamics. So by combining those factors into gameplay where all those are met at once, like say for example in a trading card game, the player(s) can learn simple things at first and grow into the language in a fun and competitive fashion. 

This circles back to why I made the list above; it allows gamers to have access to the widest range possible for terms they might need to use. 

According to what I am seeing, the non canon words are going to be overhauled soon. I am thinking for now we use the canon -> modern words available to fill in the gaps, but after the overhaul we update the list with more appropriate translations - but like Paarthunax suggested, keep as close to canon when possible.

paarthurnax

deck - lahvu 'army' ('gathered/mustered many') is the closest I can think of

I thought maybe "book" would be a good translation. Lessee, perhaps "dey"?
 

i looove that idea =) I really need to practise dovahzul more frequently and that would help greatly ^^ 

For those who are a bit more picky about making things look neat,

the same list above is available in spreadsheet form here:

http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sXK8yzeg8aUB1J_j3GR6uVJmhwxdyZ1rI5foY4dcfQQ/edit?usp=sharing

begin- ativaal 'promote' (used before the word turn or game)

game- bovit 'adventure'

turn- dreni 'my action' - dii drenne 'my actions'

victor- kroniid 'victor'

victory- krongrah 'victory'

zone- hofkah 'farm(field)' (field is used elsewhere)

@Kendovahrol  That is a fascinating way to translate "game". I like it! How did you arrive at the translation for it though? Did it just come to you or did you have to contemplate it?

Shadowcaster

@Kendovahrol  That is a fascinating way to translate "game". I like it! How did you arrive at the translation for it though? Did it just come to you or did you have to contemplate it?

it took some contemplation. the idea of a game is always chance are a long series of actions, to me a series of actions is a quest or adventure. so if there is a word for quest that could also work i guess

card- golgaaz 'tablet'

choice- poguk

dice- dez golle 'fate stones'

graveyard- graad fod 'grave field'

magic- lu 

throw- fusk

Leech - lun

Air/wind - each have their own word: su and ven

Strength I think is mulaag but I'm not entirely sure. I always get mulaag and suleyk muxed up haha

With - voth

You - hi

Your - hin

Spirit - zii

My - dii or an -i suffix

I - zu'u

Monster - closest I can think of is sivaas - "beast"

Life - laas

Have - lost

Hand - haal

If any are wrong, forgive me, I don't know much Dovahzul other than the words of power I've managed to memorise/the title theme/random words ingame dragons have said. q:

Strength I think is mulaag but I'm not entirely sure. I always get mulaag and suleyk muxed up hah

I looked it up, it's "Mulaag".