Ivetra sko vezy las kreny gimigho (or something like that)

[jdm314]

Warning: this post is insanely nerdy. Even by my standards.

Recently the third season of Game of Thrones started. Some of you may know that that show already features the constructed language, or "conlang," Dothraki, created by David J. Peterson (formerly dothraki) out of the brief snippets that occur in the original books by George R.R. Martin (grrm). As the

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[ext_1755184]

Great job! Very impressive. I just have two quick comment:

kísa evá vanéqo - since kísa doesn't match the expected morphology for 3sg verbs, I'm wondering whether it could be an impersonal form, like "there is [time] until tomorrow". Another possibility is a passive verb form: "she is given [time] until tomorrow".

sko do nagostováre ún sepá - how about "sko do nagas to váre ún sepá" {that not remains in them any weakness}?

- Zhalio

[jdm314]

Thank you for your comments, zhey Zhalio.

kísa evá vanéqo - Yes, clearly something like that, but I'm a bit reluctant to guess exactly what at this point.

sko do nagas to váre ún sepá - Good guess. It does sound to me like Kraznys is saying nagos but the intention could very well be nágas, which would give us a recognizable verb form. In my methodology I would have assumed továre, since I don't have a word to "any." On the other hand, perhaps it could be dováre where *váre means "strength."

[ext_1756266]

Wow! Really the mother of all transcriptions! Excellent job, Justin. When you told me you were going to publish your own transcript I wasn't expecting such a thorough job, kudos. I only hope that by the time we know more about Valyrian we at least still have 60% correct, hehe. Nice touch adding the stress!

- Esploranto

[jdm314]

Yeah, just saw tonight's episode. I wasn't planning to give it the same treatment, but now that I've seen it... well, it's tempting.

[ext_1756266]

Now you must go for it! According to David's latest post you were right about lots of stuff! For example the "sko" being used as "that", that was a great one! Also every new post David makes he gives more clues and unveils more information to better the transcription. So go for it!

- Esploranto

[anonymous]

Just wanted to chime in and applaud your achivement. I don't feel I have anything to contribute yet, so I'm just happy following your exploits. When there's material enough for a non-linguist with practically zero knowledge of classical languages, hopefully I'll jump onboard in more active capacity.

- Qvaak

[jdm314]

Thanks. Flattery will get you everywhere, but I suspect that right now this has less to do with my linguistic and classical knowledge than it does with stubbornness. So feel free to contribute should an idea strike you.