Today’s post is going to end up being rather long and grammar-heavy. Some readers will probably dig that, but it may be a bear for others, so by way of making amends, here is a picture of my cat Keli wearing sunglasses: From now on whenever you think of relative clauses, I hope you will… Continue reading Relative Clauses in Dothraki
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Accents in Dothraki
Today’s topic was suggested by ingsve over at the Dothraki fora, but it comes originally from Blizzard over at Westeros.org. Blizzard writes (in the Requests thread of the Dothraki subforum): How the Dothraki would pronounce the words of the westerosi houses? Or “Where is my horse?” Well, the latter’s pretty simple: Finne sajo anni? But… Continue reading Accents in Dothraki
Citation Form
I got a question from Hrakkar which begins: This thread brings up a good question: What is ‘lexical form’ for Dothraki? To read the full question, go here. Basically, I think there’s two questions here: What is the citation or dictionary form of a given Dothraki word? What is the bare stem in Dothraki? I’ll… Continue reading Citation Form
Long (or Doubled) Consonants
It’s been a little bit, but I’m back with the first non-first post. Before getting to that, I should mention that I knew beforehand there was going to be some lag time with getting this blog off the ground. I told the Dothraki.org folks I would be starting up a blog before I’d even settled… Continue reading Long (or Doubled) Consonants
New Dothraki Words
Note: This post originally appeared at dothraki.conlang.org. As it makes more sense for it to be here, I’ve moved it over (though the original post still exists). So it turned out to be more than a few days, but I’ve finally finished coining new Dothraki words based on the names of those who asked questions… Continue reading New Dothraki Words