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Roegadyn grammar

Roegadyn language guide

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Pluralization

No information is given on pluralization. Roegadyn words are based on real-world Germanic languages, so words might conceivably be pluralized by adding -n, -en, -er, or -s as suffixes.

Spelling Rule

Always remove doubled letters when combining a word that ends in the same letter the following word begins with.

Rostn + Noez = Rostnoez (Rusty Walnut)

Pronunciation

W is pronounced as /v/ (the v-sound in English) and J is pronounced as /j/ (the y-sound in English).

Don't think too hard about the vowels. The game pronounces the name "Moen" the same as the English word "moon".

Gender

Surnames

Sea Wolves use patronyms. A man named Gryminghil Blaetmoensyn would necessarily have a father named Blaetmoen. Gryminghil's sons, in turn, would have the surname GryminghilSYN, and his daughters would have the surname GryminghilWYN.

While not explicitly stated, a non-binary person could possibly use the suffix -klin, meaning "child".

(The "official" rule is that the father's name is used, but no one is making you adhere to that part.)

Forenames

Almost any two words can be combined to make male forenames, but according to the ~rules,~ female forenames should end with one of the following:

This is, quite frankly, kind of dumb -- even if you WANT to keep the gender essentialism, why aren't "froe" and "koena" included as female suffixes? Feel free to break this rule, whether because your WoL is trans, has hippie parents, or just comes from a place where things work differently. (I have a male WoL named Skarngeim.)

("Mann" and "Wyb" are listed as meaning "man" and "woman", respectively, but in absence of any evidence to the contrary, I choose to believe they can also mean "husband" and "wife" as is not uncommon in Germanic languages. Thus "Merlwyb" could mean "wife of the sea".)

Changing parts of speech

Making adjectives from nouns

Add [i] to the end of the noun.

Entries which are designated as both adjective & noun will not change in structure when they are used as an adjective. For example Agat (amber) will NEVER become Agati.

(The suffix -yr is used in the words "Nortyr", "Sundyr", "Wistyr", "Ostyr", and "Thubyr", but nowhere else; meanwhile the suffix -yn is used in "Trachyn". These may be remnants of older rules now lost in most words.)

Do-ers of verbs

Add [a] to the end of the verb.

Gerunds

Add [n] to the end of the verb.

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