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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:42 pm
This is a small dictionary of the Carpathian Language, taken from the CF website. This dictionary can also be found in the Appendix of the following books.
Dark Celebration
Dark Possession
Dark Curse
First though, you will need to understand the history and grammar contexts.
Post 2- History Of the Language
Post 3- Carpathian grammar and other characteristics of the language
Post 4 and beyond- Dictionary, Starting with A of course.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:49 pm
The Carpathian language of today is essentially identical to the Carpathian language of thousands of years ago. A "dead" language like Latin has evolved into a significantly different modern language (Italian) because of countless generations of speakers and great historical fluctuations. In contrast, many of the speakers of Carpathian from thousands of years ago are still alive. Their presence -- coupled with the deliberate isolation of the Carpathians from the other major forces of change in the world -- has acted (and continues to act) as a stabilizing force that has preserved the language over the centuries. Carpathian culture has also acted as a stabilizing force. For instance, the Ritual Words, various healing chants (including The Lesser Healing Chant and The Great Healing Chant, and other cultural artifacts have been passed down the centuries with great fidelity.
One small exception should be noted: the splintering of the Carpathians into separate geographic regions has led to some minor dialectization. However the telepathic links among all Carpathians has ensured that the differences among dialects are relatively superficial (e.g., small numbers of new words, minor differences in pronunciation, etc.), since the deeper, internal language of mind-forms has remained the same because of continuous use across space and time.
The Carpathian language was (and still is) the proto-language for the Uralic (or Finno-Ugrian) family of languages. Today, the Uralic languages are spoken in northern, eastern and central Europe and in Siberia. More than 23 million people in the world speak languages that can trace their ancestry to Carpathian. Magyar or Hungarian (about 14 million speakers), Finnish (about 5 million speakers), and Estonian (about 1 million speakers), are the three major contemporary descendents of this proto-language. The only factor that unites the more than twenty languages in the Uralic family is that their ancestry can be traced back to a common proto-language -- Carpathian -- which split (starting some 6,000 years ago) into the various languages in the Uralic family. In the same way, European languages such as English and French, belong to the better-known Indo-European family and also evolve from a common proto-language ancestor (a different one from Carpathian).
Carpathian Language Tree [Soon to come.]
The following table provides a sense for some of the similarities in the language family.
Note: The Finnic/Carpathian "k" shows up often as Hungarian "h". Similarly, the Finnic/Carpathian "p" often corresponds to the Hungarian "f".
[Table soon to come.]
Important distinction: The Romani language (the language of the Roma people, more commonly known as the Gypsies) is sometimes referred to as "Carpathian", and should not be confused with the language of the Carpathians described here.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:20 pm
Idioms. As both an ancient language, and a language of an earth people, Carpathian is more inclined toward use of idioms constructed from concrete, "earthy" terms, rather than abstractions. For instance, our modern abstraction, "to cherish", is expressed more concretely in Carpathian as "to hold in one's heart"; the "nether world" is, in Carpathian, "the land of night, fog, and ghosts"; etc.
Word order. The order of words in a sentence is determined not by syntactic roles (like subject, verb, and object) but rather by pragmatic, discourse-driven factors. Examples: "Tied vagyok." ("Yours am I."); "Sívamet andam." ("My heart I give you.")
Agglutination. The Carpathian language is agglutinative; that is, longer words are constructed from smaller components. An agglutinating language uses suffixes or prefixes whose meaning is generally unique, and which are concatenated one after another without overlap. In Carpathian, words typically consist of a stem that is followed by one or more suffixes. For example, "sívambam" derives from the stem "sív" ("heart") followed by "am" ("my", making it "my heart"), followed by "bam" ("in", making it "in my heart"). As you might imagine, agglutination in Carpathian can sometimes produce very long words, or words that are very difficult to pronounce. Vowels often get inserted between suffixes, to prevent too many consonants from appearing in a row (which can make the word unpronounceable).
Noun cases. Like all languages, Carpathian has many noun cases; the same noun will be "spelled" differently depending on its role in the sentence. Some of the noun cases include: nominative (when the noun is the subject of the sentence), accusative (when the noun is a direct object of the verb), dative (indirect object), genitive (or possessive), instrumental, final, supressive, inessive, elative, terminative, and delative.
We will use the possessive (or genitive) case as an example, to illustrate how all noun cases in Carpathian involve adding standard suffixes to the noun stems. Thus expressing possession in Carpathian - "my lifemate", "your lifemate", "his lifemate", "her lifemate", etc. - involves adding a particular suffix (such as "-am") to the noun stem ("päläfertiil"), to produce the possessive ("päläfertiilam" - "my lifemate"). Which suffix to use depends upon which person ("my", "your", "his", etc.) and whether the noun ends in a consonant or vowel. The following table shows the suffixes for singular nouns only (not plural). By way of contrast, Carpathian's modern-day descendent, Hungarian, is actually a little more complex, in that it also requires "vowel rhyming": which suffix to use also depends on the last vowel in the noun; hence the multiple choices in the cells below, where Carpathian only has a single choice.
Verb conjugation. Like its modern descendents (such as Finnish and Hungarian), Carpathian has many verb tenses, far too many to describe here. We will just focus on the conjugation of the present tense. Again, we will place contemporary Hungarian side by side with the Carpathian, because of the marked similarity of the two.
As with the possessive case for nouns, the conjugation of verbs is done by adding a suffix onto the verb stem:
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:25 pm
This very much abridged Carpathian dictionary contains most of the Carpathian words used in these Dark books. Of course, a full Carpathian dictionary would be as large as the usual dictionary for an entire language.
Note: The Carpathian nouns and verbs below are word stems. They generally do not appear in their isolated, "stem" form, as below. Instead, they usually appear with suffixes (e.g., "andam" - "I give", rather than just the root, "and").
[Letters, such as Q, for which there are no words are left out.]
A
# agba - be seemly, proper.
# ai - oh.
# aina - body.
# ainaak - forever
# aka - to give heed; to hearken; to listen..
# akarat - mind; will.
# ál - bless, attach to.
# aldyn - under; underneath.
# alatt - through.
# alte - bless, curse.
# alə - to lift; to raise.
# and - to give.
# arvo - value
# arwa - praise.
# arwa-arvo - honor.
# arwa-arvod mäne me ködak - may your honor hold back the dark
(greeting).
# arwa-arvo olen gæidnod, ekäm - honor guide you, my brother (greeting).
# arwa-arvo olen isäntä, ekäm - honor keep you, my brother (greeting).
# arwa-arvo pile sívadet - may honor light your heart (greeting).
# asti - until.
# avaa - to open.
# avio - wedded.
# avio päläfertiil - lifemate.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:34 pm
B
# belső - within; inside.
# bur - good; well
# bur tule ekämet kuntamak - well met brother-kin (greeting)
C
# ćaδa - to flee; to run; to escape.
# ćoro - to flow; to run like rain.
# csecsemõ - baby.
# csitri - little one (female).
E
# eći - to fall.
# ek - suffix added after a noun ending in a consonant to make it plural.
# ekä - brother.
# elä - to live.
# eläsz arwa-arvoval - may you live with honor (greeting).
# eläsz jeläbam ainaak - long may you live in the light (greeting).
# elävä - alive.
# elävä ainak majaknak - land of the living.
# elid - life.
# emä - mother.
# Emä Maγe - Mother Nature; Mother Earth.
# én - I.
# en - great, many, big.
# én jutta félet és ekämet - I greet a friend and brother (greeting).
# En Puwe - The Great Tree. Related to the legends of Ygddrasil, the axis
mundi, Mount Meru, heaven and hell, etc.
# engem - me.
# eläsz arwa-arvoval - live nobly (greeting).
# eći - to fall.
# ek - suffix added after a noun ending in a consonant to make it plural.
# és - and.
# että - that.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:39 pm
F
# fáz - to feel cold or chilly.
# fél - fellow, friend.
# fél ku kuuluaak sívam belsö - beloved.
# fél ku vigyázak - dear one.
# fertiil - fertile one.
# fesztelen - airy.
# fü - herbs; grass.
G
# gæidno - road, way.
# gond - care; worry (noun).
H
# hän - he; she; it.
# hän agba - it is so.
# hän ku - prefix meaning: one who …
# hän ku agba - truth.
# hän ku kaśwa o numamet - sky-owner.
# hän ku kuulua sívamet - keeper of my heart.
# hän ku meke pirämet - defender.
# hän ku pesä - protector.
# hän ku vie elidet - thief of life (term for vampire).
# hän ku saa kuć3aket - star-reacher.
# hän ku tappa - deadly.
# hän ku tuulmahl elidet - life-stealer (term for vampire).
# hany - clod; lump of earth.
# hisz - to believe; to trust.
I
# irgalom - compassion; pity; mercy.
# ida - east.
# irgalom - compassion; pity; mercy.
# isä - father.
# isäntä - master of the house.
# it - now.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:43 pm
J
# jälleen - again.
# jama - to be sick, wounded, or dying; to be near death (verb).
# jelä - sunlight; day, sun; light.
# jelä keje terád - light sear you (Carpathian swear words).
# o jelä peje terád - sun scorch you (Carpathian swear words).
# o jelä sielamak - light of my soul.
# joma - to be underway; to go.
# joŋe - to come; to return.
# joŋesz arwa-arvoval - return with honor (greeting).
# jŏrem - to forget; to lose one's way; to make a mistake.
# juo - to drink.
# juosz és eläsz - drink and live (greeting).
# juosz és olen ainaak sielamet jutta - drink and become one with me
(greeting).
# juta - to go; to wander.
# jüti - night; evening.
# jutta - connected; fixed (adj.). to connect; to fix; to bind (verb).
K
# k - suffix added after a noun ending in a vowel to make it plural.
# kaca - male lover.
# kaik - all (noun).
# kaśwa - to own.
# kaŋa - to call; to invite; to request; to beg.
# kaŋk - windpipe; adam's apple; throat.
# kaδa - to abandon; to leave; to remain.
# kaδa wäkeva óv o köd - stand fast against the dark (greeting).
# Karpatii - Carpathian.
# käsi - hand.
# keje - cook; burn; sear.
# kepä - lesser, small, easy, few.
# kidü - to wake up; to arise (intransitive verb).
# kim - cover an entire object with some sort of covering.
# kinn - out; outdoors; outside; without.
# kinta - fog, mist, smoke.
# köd - fog; mist; darkness.
# köd alte hän - darkness curse it (Carpathian swear words).
# o köd belsö - darkness take it (Carpathian swear words).
# köd jutasz belsö - shadow take you (Carpathian swear words).
# koje - man; husband; drone.
# kola - to die.
# kolasz arwa-arvoval - may you die with honor (greeting).
# koma - empty hand; bare hand; palm of the hand; hollow of the hand.
# kont - warrior.
# kont o sívanak - strong heart (literally: heart of the warrior).
# ku - who; which.
# kule - hear.
# kuly - intestinal worm; tapeworm; demon who possesses and devours
souls.
# kulke - to go or to travel (on land or water).
# kulkesz arwa-arvoval, ekäm - walk with honor, my brother (greeting).
# kulkesz arwaval-joŋesz arwa arvoval - go with glory-return with honor
(greeting).
# kuńa - to lie as if asleep; to close or cover the eyes in a game of hide-and-seek; to die.
# kunta - band, clan, tribe, family.
# kutni - be able to bear, carry, endure, stand, or take.
# kutnisz ainaak - long may you endure (greeting).
# kuulua - to belong; to hold.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:46 pm
L
# lääs - west.
# lamti - lowland; meadow.
# lamti ból jüti, kinta, ja szelem - the nether world (literally: the meadow of night, mists, and ghosts).
# lańa - daughter.
# lejkka - crack, fissure, split (noun). To cut; to hit; to strike forcefully (verb).
# lewl - spirit.
# lewl ma - the other world (literally: spirit land). Lewl ma includes lamti ból jüti, kinta, ja szelem: the nether world, but also includes the worlds higher up En Puwe, the Great Tree.
# lõuna - south.
# löyly - breath; steam. (related to lewl: spirit).
M
# ma - land; forest.
# mana - to abuse; to curse; to ruin.
# mäne - rescue; save.
# maγe - land; earth; territory; place; nature.
# me - we.
# meke - deed; work (noun). To do; to make; to work (verb).
# minan - mine.
# minden - every, all (adj.).
# möért? - what for? (exclamation).
# molo - to crush; to break into bits.
# molanâ - to crumble; to fall apart.
# mozdul - to begin to move, to enter into movement.
# myös - also.
N
# nä - for.
# ŋamaŋ - this; this one here.
# nélkül - without.
# nenä - anger.
# nó - like; in the same way as; as.
# numa - god; sky; top; upper part; highest (related to the English word: numinous).
# nyelv - tongue.
# nyál - saliva; spit (noun). (related to nyelv: tongue).
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:50 pm
O
# odam - dream; sleep (verb).
# olen - to be.
# oma - old; ancient.
# omboće - other; second (adj.).
# o - the (used before a noun beginning with a consonant).
# ot - the (used before a noun beginning with a vowel).
# otti - to look; to see; to find.
# owe - door.
# óv - to protect against.
P
# pajna - to press.
# pälä - half; side.
# päläfertiil - mate or wife.
# peje - burn.
# peje terád - get burned (Carpathian swear words).
# pél - to be afraid; to be scared of.
# pesä - nest (literal); protection (figurative).
# pesäsz jeläbam ainaak - long may you stay in the light (greeting).
# pide - above.
# pile - to ignite; to light up.
# pirä - circle; ring (noun). To surround; to enclose (verb)
# piros - red..
# pitä - keep, hold.
# piwtä - to follow; to follow the track of game.
# põhi - north.
# pukta - to drive away; to persecute; to put to flight.
# pusm - to be restored to health.
# pus - healthy; healing.
# puwe - tree; wood.
R
# rauho - peace.
# reka - ecstasy; trance.
# rituaali - ritual.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:54 pm
S
# saa - arrive, come; become; get, receive.
# saasz hän ku andam szabadon - take what i freely offer.
# sas - shoosh (to a child or baby).
# saγe - to arrive; to come; to reach.
# salama - lightning; lightning bolt.
# sarna - words; speech; magic incantation (noun). To chant; to sing; to celebrate (verb).
# sarna kontakawk - warriors' chant.
# śaro - frozen snow.
# siel - soul.
# sisar - sister.
# sív - heart.
# sívad olen wäkeva, hän ku piwtä - may your heart stay strong, hunter (greeting).
# sívamet - my heart.
# sívdobbanás - heartbeat.
# sokta - to mix; to stir around.
# soŋe - to enter; to penetrate; to compensate; to replace.
# susu - home; birthplace (noun). at home (adv.).
# szabadon - freely.
# szelem - ghost.
T
# tappa - to dance; to stamp with the feet (verb).
# te - you.
# ted - yours
# terád keje - get scorched (Carpathian swear words)..
# toja - to bend; to bow; to break.
# toro - to fight; to quarrel.
# torosz wäkeval - fight fiercely (greeting).
# tule - to meet; to come.
# tumte - to feel; to touch; to touch upon.
# türe - full, satiated, accomplished.
# tyvi - stem; base; trunk.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:56 pm
U
# uskol - faithful.
# uskolfertiil - allegiance.
V
# veri - blood.
# veri-elidet - blood-life.
# veri ekäakank - blood of our brothers.
# veri isäakank - blood of our fathers.
# veri olen piros, ekäm - literally: blood be red, my brother; figuratively: find your lifemate (greeting).
# veriak ot en Karpatiiak - by the blood of the Prince (literally: by the blood of the great Carpathian; Carpathian swear words).
# veridet peje - may your blood burn (Carpathian swear words).
# vigyáz - to love; to care for; to take care of.
# vii - last; at last; finally.
W
# wäke - power.
# wäke kaδa - steadfastness.
# wäke kutni - endurance.
# wäke-sarna -vow; curse; blessing (literally: power words).
# wäkeva - powerful.
# wara - bird; crow.
# weńća - complete; whole.
# wete - water
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