Ma banal las halamshir var vhen: You do nothing to further our people. Lathbora viran: Roughly translated as 'the path to a place of lost love,' a longing for a thing one can never really know. Ir abelas, ma vhenan: 'I am filled with sorrow for your loss, my heart.'

Halam'shivanas: The sweet sacrifice of duty. Ghilan'him banal'vhen: 'The path that leads astray': a derogatory term for Arcane Warriors among those elves who eschewed physical combat. Ghil-Dirthalen: 'One who guides seekers of knowledge true.' Garas quenathra: 'Why are you here?/Why have you come?' Spoken by the voices of the Vir'abelasan A common curse.ДЇen'Harel ma ghilana: 'Dread Wolf guides you.' Indicates someone being mislead.ДЇen'Harel ma halam: 'Dread Wolf ends you.' A threat. Mar solas ena mar din: Meaning unknown.Дirth'ena enasalin: 'Knowledge that led to victory' the Elvish term for the Arcane Warrior or, more recently, Knight Enchanter disciplines.Дirthara-ma: 'May you learn.' Used as a curse.Д®mmasalin var suledin evanura: Meaning unknown.ДЇalonвЂ™Din enasal enaste: A prayer for the dead.ДЇenedhis lasa: Meaning officially undefined as of yet. A formal elven greeting.ДЄneth ara: A sociable or friendly greeting, more commonly used among the Dalish themselves rather than with outsiders.ДЄra seranna-ma: A way to excuse one's self, such as after a sneeze or belch.ДЄr dirthanвЂ™as ir elgara, maвЂ™sula eвЂ™var vhenan: Meaning unknown.ДЄr lasa mala revas: 'You are free.' More literally 'I give you your freedom.'ДЄr lath ma, vhenan: 'I love you, heart/my heart'ДЄsha'bellanar: 'The Woman of Many Years.' How the Dalish refer to Flemeth.ДЄtish'all Vir Abelasan: 'Enter the path of the Well of Sorrows.'Д«ellanaris Din'an Heem: 'Make you dead.'Дareth shiral: farewell literally 'Safe journey.'Дin elvhen emma him?: Meaning unknown.Дirth ma, harellan. In the Dragon Age, clan Keepers are generally the only ones who know the secret of writing Elvish.ДЄndaran atishвЂ™an: Enter this place in peace. Some Circles have also come to possess old elven texts. Though a number of ancient sites, including the Temple of Mythal, have recently been found to contain examples of Elvish writing, these are few and far between, and jealously guarded by the Dalish. That means it's a mess' and that it tends 'to meander'.Д«attle map from the Fourth Blight, featuring a rare example of written Elvish It has been observed that 'Elven is often a game of intents, not direct mapping of phonetic meaning. Living among humans, the City Elves now retain only a few old Elvish words whose origin is almost forgotten, such as 'shem' - derived from 'shemlen', meaning 'quickling' or 'quick children,' the old Elvish term for humans - and 'hahren' - the leader of an Alienage, meaning 'elder' in Elvish.ДЄ differentiating factor between Elvish and other languages in Thedas-particularly as regards aspects like names-is the avoidance of hard consonants.

Some clans, such as the ones encountered in Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne, speak it fluently and exclusively. The Dalish Elves, self-appointed custodians of the elven language and lore, use more Elvish than their City Elf brethren. The Elvish of the Dragon Age is thus a fragmented remnant, a few words that are thrown into conversation rather than a working language used to conduct everyday life. When the elves settled their second homeland, the Dales, they aimed to restore their lost language and lore, but the Dales fell after an Exalted March declared by the Chantry in the early Glory Age. The Elven language, or 'Elvish', was largely lost when Elvhenan fell to the Tevinter Imperium and its people were enslaved around two millennia before the Dragon Age.

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