Words of Power in Draconic (or whatever)???

[Abadar]

Dear Community,

Has anybody gone through the words of power and give each one a word in Draconic or some other language? I think it would be cool to have a name for your spells as opposed to "Burst Fire Blast" which sounds cool but not what the word of power actually is.

So the idea would be to create a Prefix, Infix?, and Suffix for each Target, Effect, and Meta word respectively.

This seems like a big undertaking by an expert in linguistics, so I'm not about to pretend like I could do this. Does anybody know of an existing set of WoP translations?

[VRMH]

Just pick a random language, and run it through Google Translate?
Eventually you should hit on language that's weird, exotic and cool enough.

[Zachrid]

...Draconic Words of power? Mhh, where did I already hear th... FUS ROH DAH!
No but seriously, if you don't mind to borrow some things from a computer-game, just look at this:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Shouts

In fact, I think "Fus Yol Dah" would be "Burst Fire Blast".

[Abadar]

Zachrid,

This looks interesting. I like this since each syllable is fairly simple and it looks like they could fit anywhere in a word. I'm going to look into latin and see if that is a viable language.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

I generally just use Portguese. It sounds cool.

[Abadar]

Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:

I generally just use Portguese. It sounds cool.

You mean the language that sounds of drunk Russians trying to speak Spanish?

But seriously, further research shows me that using rune-word-esque syllables like in Diablo, Skyrim, Dungeon Master, etc is a very good option.

[Fig]

Might I suggest taking a look at the Klingon language? I doubt all the words exist natively, but it is a fully formed (albeit verbally impoverished and of limited use in the rest of the world) and functionally complete language awaiting a greater number of speakers.