Old Oeridian

Template:Greyhawk Language Old Oeridian is the language of the Oeridian people. It was completely free of outside influences until the Great Migrations. Its grammar is thus unique and it is almost impossible to translate it into any language other than Common. Many of the books, records, and holy texts of the Aerdi were written in Old Oeridian, and it is still widely known in the lands of the former Great Kingdom.

Selected glossary

Old Oeridian to English

• Aer: sky
• Aerdi: sky people
• Astra: heavens
• -di (suffix): people
• Dira: magical (presumed)
• Dirawaen: magical road?
• Dyv: deep, bottomless
• Nehr: lake
• Nor: birthplace
• Nyr: lake
• Nyr Dyv: deep/bottomless lake, "Lake of Unknown Depths"
• Orz: humble
• Rel: city
• Sol: sun
• Solnor: birthplace of the sun
• Thalos: fortress
• Waen: road (presumed)

English to Old Oeridian

• Birthplace: nor
• Bottomless: dyv
• City: rel
• Deep: dyv

Fortress: thalos

• Heavens: astra
• Humble: orz
• Magical: dira (presumed)
• People: -di
• Road: waen (presumed)
• Sky: aer
• Sun: sol

Bibliography

• Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1983.

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.

• Moore, Roger E. The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998.

• Reynolds, Sean K. The Scarlet Brotherhood. Renton, WA: TSR, 1999.

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