Drem yol lok! I've just hit around 60% of the Memrise Canon course and found my first homophone - Kul. I'm wondering, are there any other Canonical homophones?
Homophones
![]() Vahzahhind January 23, 2017 |
Drem yol lok! I've just hit around 60% of the Memrise Canon course and found my first homophone - Kul. I'm wondering, are there any other Canonical homophones? |

![]() Frinmulaar January 24, 2017 |
Nin is a homophone to niin, according to some. And in-universe, nok 'be at rest' is a homophone to nok 'tell falsehood as truth'. |

Nin is a homophone to niin, according to some. And in-universe, nok 'be at rest' is a homophone to nok 'tell falsehood as truth'.
![]() paarthurnax Administrator January 24, 2017 |
Homophones are pretty rare since there's a small vocabulary and by-the-book pronunciation keeps similarly spelled words unique (e.g. aak and ok). Besides the examples Frinmulaar posted, another possible homophone comes up with laanne 'requests' and lahney 'to live'. |

Homophones are pretty rare since there's a small vocabulary and by-the-book pronunciation keeps similarly spelled words unique (e.g. aak and ok).
Besides the examples Frinmulaar posted, another possible homophone comes up with laanne 'requests' and lahney 'to live'.
![]() Vahzahhind January 24, 2017 |
Thanks for the further examples! @Frinmulaar I forgot that Nok is the same homophone as English. I think that's a pretty funny how they probably directly translated that across @Paarthurnax Yeah with a vocabulary of ~630 I was surprised to find even 1 "orthographical homophone". With the above answer I guess there are at least two. I imagine the different 'A' sounds to be distinct would you say laanne and lahney as the same? They're definitely very similar but my tell tale for me if I had to say it would be the h in lah. a - short ah aa - long ah ah - hard to describe but I definitely have the 'h' sound after the a
I do the same with i and ii. I guess it's just a side effect of learning Japanese with their mora system |

Thanks for the further examples!
@Frinmulaar I forgot that Nok is the same homophone as English. I think that's a pretty funny how they probably directly translated that across
@Paarthurnax Yeah with a vocabulary of ~630 I was surprised to find even 1 "orthographical homophone". With the above answer I guess there are at least two. I imagine the different 'A' sounds to be distinct would you say laanne and lahney as the same? They're definitely very similar but my tell tale for me if I had to say it would be the h in lah.
a - short ah
aa - long ah
ah - hard to describe but I definitely have the 'h' sound after the a
I do the same with i and ii. I guess it's just a side effect of learning Japanese with their mora system
![]() Ruvgein January 26, 2017 |
Aan - a Aan - slave I never liked that, if a Dragon says "aan joor" there is no way to know if you are just another mortal to them or they feel that you're their slave. |

Aan - slave
I never liked that, if a Dragon says "aan joor" there is no way to know if you are just another mortal to them or they feel that you're their slave.
![]() paarthurnax Administrator January 26, 2017 |
Ruvgein Aar or zaam are much more common, so that helps clear confusion. Aan as meaning 'slave' should really never be used. |

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