English-Elvish-English Language Translations: Requests Welcome

[Angcuru]

Thanks, Angcuru! You rock

I've been sig-quoted!(in a way) Yippee!

 

[dpdx]

Hi, Angcuru:

Does your source have names of specific common plants, like palm trees?

I'm wondering specifically if you have an Elvish translation for 'palm frond', as in a leaf from a palm tree. I'm hoping to use these (if they're short enough, or can be made that way) for the last names of a race of 'beach elves' I'm doing up as NPCs.

If you have any luck, can you also translate:

driftwood, wood floating on water
crashing surf, waves, rider of the surf
sand hill

That's all for now. Thanks in advance!

 

[Angcuru]

Well, there isn't an elvish equivalent for the palm tree, but I'll see what I can do.

Leaf of Beach Tree - Lassen'ornsii
lass-ahn-ohrn-see

Driftwood - Runda
roon-dah

Breaking Surf - Solosrusvien
soh-lohs-roos-vyehn

Waves - Falmar
fahl-mahr

Rider of the Surf - Noraren'i'solos
nohr-ahr-on-ee-soh-lohs

Sand Hill - Amonliste
ah-mon-lees-tay

 

[dpdx]

Well, there isn't an elvish equivalent for the palm tree, but I'll see what I can do.

Leaf of Beach Tree - Lassen'ornsii
lass-ahn-ohrn-see

Driftwood - Runda
roon-dah

Breaking Surf - Solosrusvien
soh-lohs-roos-vyehn

Waves - Falmar
fahl-mahr

Rider of the Surf - Noraren'i'solos
nohr-ahr-on-ee-soh-lohs

Sand Hill - Amonliste
ah-mon-lees-tay

[scribble... scribble...]

Thanks!

 

[Angcuru]

*bump* and a *yawn*

 

[Lalato]

Here is a quick request for you...

Blind Fox
Lost Moose
Creeping Fate

Oh... and are there any Elven words that begin with...

tuli...
bael...
lir...

Thanks a bunch...
--sam

 

[Angcuru]

Blind Fox (Sightless Fox) - Ronyaelean'ner
ron-ya-ay-layn-naer

Lost Moose - it would help if there was an elven word for moose

Creeping Fate - could you suggest an appropriate word besides creep?


tuli...
bael...
lir...

well, you can get a lot of these by mixing different elven words together

example:
Ba|elen - Dead | Star

 

[Lalato]

Thanks for the Blind Fox translation...

As for Lost Moose... how about replacing Moose with Elk, Deer, Antelope, Cow, Bull or if all else fails... Beast

Creeping Fate... how about Plodding, Crawling or Slow-moving

By the way... those are clan names for some wild elves...

Ba'elen works well thanks...

Any possibility on something starting with "Tuli" or at least "Tu"?

Thanks again,
--sam

 

[Angcuru]

Tulwe - Pole
tool-way

Tulunka - Steady
tool-uhn-kuh

Tulien - Coming

Mundowanda - Lost Bull
moon-do-wahn-dah

 

[Janx]

for the palm tree request, try "tree of hands" or "tree of palms" since that i basically where palm trees get their name.

Now on a more technical note, what's it take to get these translations into some sort of BabelFish tool?

Are you doing a basic search and replace (look up word, replace it with elf word)?

Is there any rearranging going on?

Just curious, as I'd be more inclined to run whole texts through it for player hand-out clues than anything else.

Thanks,
Janx