Deepish Language

Deepish is the language spoken in Elvendeep, though there are also native variants and dialects.

Prefix (optional)

• N- or n’- = imperative:
• Go! or Let him speak! etc.

Tense

• -i- = present tense continuous (I am going).
• -e- = present tense aorist (I go).
• -u- = simple past tense (I went).
• -eru- = past continuous tense (I was going).
• -ai- = future tense (I will go).
• -iri- = pluperfect (I had gone).

Infix (optional)

• -stha- = reflexive (myself, himself, herself)
• -thna- = passive (I am seen as opposed to I see)

Personal Ending

• -l = first person singular (I)
• -m = second person singular (you)
• -d = third person singular male (he)
• -s = third person singular female (she)
• [no ending] = third person singular neuter (it)
• -le = first person plural (we)
• -me = second person plural (you all)
• -de = second person plural male (they)
• -se = second person plural female (they)
• -re = second person plural mixed or neuter (they)

Noun endings

• [no ending] = singular
• -i- = plural
• -on = subject (nominative). The dog bites the man.
• -o* = direct object (accusative). The dog bites the man. The man gives the ball to the child.
• -é = TO something (dative). The man gives the ball to the child.
• -en = FROM something (ablative). The man takes the ball from the child.
• -an = BY MEANS OF something (instrumental): The army arrives by airship. The soldier slays his enemy with his sword.
• -a = OF something / the possessive (genitive). The door of the house. The man’s brother.

• The ending –o is often elided to –’ in speech and informal writing, though not in the case of the plural (-io).

• éd- = to see.
• édel, I see.
• édem, you see.
• éded, he sees.
• édes, she sees.
• édesthad, he sees himself.
• édesthal, I see myself.
• édethnal, I am seen.
• édusthal, I saw myself.
• édirithnal, I had been seen.

Deepish Dictionary

• asn- = to give.
• bôl- = father
• bôr- = son
• dasm- = to take.
• déir- = person, elf (female), she-elf
• derast- = a family of elves
• dôn- = he. Dôna = his. Dôni = they (m.) dônia = their (m.)
• dôr- = person, elf (male), he-elf
• dunar- = sword
• éd- = to see.
• kal- = tree
• kalast- = forest
• léir- = young she-elf, elf-lass, etc.
• lan- = me, I. lan’ = my. lani = we. lania = our.
• lôr- = young he-elf, elf-lad, etc.
• méil- = mother
• méir- = daughter
• mér- = you. méra = your. méri = you all. méria = your (pl.)
• nasar- = dagger
• ran- = it. Rana = its. Rani = they (mixed or neuter). Rania = their (mixed or neuter).
• séin- = she. Séina = her (possessive). Séini = they (f.) séinia = their (f.)
• tréim- = woman (human)
• trôm- = man (human)

Deepish Phrases

• Dôrion édede trômio. = The Elves (m.) see the men.
• Déiron asnes dunar’ léiré. = The Elf (f.) gives the sword to the young elf-lass.
• Dôrion dasmude dunario trômien. = The Elves (m.) took the swords from the Men.
• N’dasmem dunar’ tréimen! = Take (thou) the sword from the woman!
• Nasnestham! = Give yourself!, i.e., Surrender!
• Nédes trôm’. = Let her see the man.
• Nasnem nasar’ bôlé séina.

Adjectives do not take any particular ending but come immediately after the noun they modify.