Lore:Idioma Dwemer

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The Dwemer Language, or Dwemeris, is the language once spoken by the Dwemer. This article is an attempt to summarize all that is known about it.

Overview

In comparison to the language of the Ayleids, very little is known about the language of the Dwemer. Most of it survives as names of various Dwemer ruins, often constructed from a limited number of roots connected together (for example Arkng-thand, Irkng-thand, Arkng-thamz). The trademark features of Dwemeris are compound words, often quite long, and consonant clusters containing as many as five consonants.

Dwemer texts are written in the Dwemer Alphabet. For more information, see the main article on the Dwemer Alphabet.

The only known consistent piece of Dwemeris is present on Calcelmo's Stone, which features a text written both in the Falmer language (which is very similar or even identical to Ayleidoon) and the Dwemer language, acting as the Elder Scrolls equivalent of the Rosetta Stone. Even so, the somewhat limited knowledge of Ayleidoon was not initially enough to translate the Falmeri text accurately enough to use it to analyse the Dwemer text, but this changed when the official translation was published by Bethesda.

Analysis of Calcelmo's Stone

Below is an attempt to decipher the Dwemer text from Calcelmo's Stone. Note that due to the lack of knowledge of Dwemer grammar or how exactly the compound words are constructed, it might not be very accurate.

Chun	thuamer	arkngd	chend	duathand,	th	ahvardn	btham.
And so it was that	your people	were given	passage	to our steam gardens,	and	the protections	of our power.

Amz	thuamer	ahrkanch	kemelmzulchond	aka	Mora,
Many of	your people	had perished	under the roaring, snow-throated	kings	of Mora,

th	thuangz	ahrk,	th	duum	melz	thuabtharng,	th	kanthaln	duabcharn	mzin	thuastur,	btharumz	thua mer	zel.
and	your wills	were broken,	and	we	heard	you, [your ?]	and	sent	our machines	against	your enemies,	to thereby take	you [your people]	under.

Abakch	duumarkng	tuathumz	amakai,	th	abakch	avatheled	kagr	tuamkingth	mzan.
Only by	the grace of the Dwemer did	your culture	survive,	and	only by	the fifteen-and-one	tones did	your new lives	begin.

Du	chal fahl	ngark,	che	du	fahl bthun	ur.
We	do not desire	thanks,	for	we	do not believe	in it.

Du	chal fahl	ngalft,	che	du	[fahl?] bthun	ur.
We	do not ask for	gratitude,	for	we	do not believe	in it.

Du	abak	chal	thu	abazun	nchur	duabthar,	nchul	duanchard.
We	only	request	you	partake	of the symbol	of our bond,	the fruit	of the stones around us. [our stones]

Th	ur	thuanchuth	irknd,	ur	irkngth	eftardn,	thunch	fahlz.
And	as	your vision	clouds,	as	the darkness	sets in,	fear	not.

Bthun	abak	dua	mzual	th	nchuan	duarkng,	chun	fahlbthar	thuanchardch	anum	ralz,	th	eftar	thuachendraldch	kagren	thua	vanchningth.
Know	only	our	mercy	and	the radiance	of our affection,	which	unbinds	your bones	to the earth	before,	and	sets	your final path	to the music	of your	new eternity.

It can be seen that the possessive pronouns are usually written together with nouns (thua-mer for "your people", dua-bthar for "our bond"). Another noticeable feature is the lack of prepositions. There also doesn't seem to be any consistent inflection.

When combined with other sources, the meanings of many words seem to be rather vague, with the actual meaning depending on the context. For example zel is said to mean "city" but on Calcelmo's Stone it's translated as "under" in "...to take your people under" (which could be interpreted as "to take your people to our cities, to our domain"). In both cases the word seems to generally mean the domain of the Dwemer, or a Dwemer-inhabited area.

Similarly arkng[d] appears three times as "were given" (arkngd), "grace" (duum-arkng, "the grace of us" or "the grace of the Dwemer"), and "affection" (dua-arkng, "our affection"). It seems obvious that the word in general means giving, granting something, or the act of doing so.

Fahlbthar is translated as "unbind". This is more or less consistent with the word bthar also being translated as "allied" or "bond" (dua-bthar, "our bond") while fahl generally seems to denote a negation ("no", "not", "un-"). Thus, bthar may generally mean "allied" or "bound". Compare the names of the Dwemer ruins Fahlbtharz ("not allied"? "unbound"?) on Solstheim and Nchu Duabthar ("symbol of our bond"?) in High Rock.

Similarly, the name of the ruins of Nchuand-Zel could mean "radiant city". A similar analysis could be performed for many more ruin names.

Words and Phrases

The list contains words explicitly mentioned and translated in various sources, as well as the word roots from Calcelmo's Stone which appear on it at least twice.

Abak Only Arkng[d] Give, gift, grace Arkngthunch Graveyard Bthar Allied, bound, bond Bthar-Zel Allied City Chal Ask, request, desire Chun Abakh Executioner Du We Dua- Our Fahl[z] No, not Fal'Zhardum Din Blackest Kingdom Reaches Fell City Kagr, Kagren Tone, music Mer People Razak Precision engineer or tonal modulator Stur Enemy Sturdumz Ghost Invaders (compare stur "enemy") Th And Thua- Your Tuathumz Central pylon Vamidium Mount (noun) Volen Hammer Volenfell City of the Hammer Vvarden Strong Shield (compare ahvardn "protection") Vvardenfell City of the Strong Shield Zel City, underground, domain of the Dwemer?

References

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