Dothraki

The Dothraki Language Dictionary (ver 3.056)
Written by Lajaki (Richard Littauer) www.dothraki.org September 23rd , 2012

This is the first available Dothraki dictionary. Dothraki is the language for the Dothraki people, a nomadic war-mongering race that ride the aptly-named Dothraki Sea steppes in George R.R. Martin’s series, A Song of Ice and Fire. It was created by David Peterson, of theLanguage Creation Society, for the HBO adaptation of the series: all copyright belongs to HBO and the LCS. This is a dictionary only of publicly made information, from posts on the LCS blog, the original books, David Peterson’s blog and personal emails. Words which have been created by David Peterson are listed as DP. Words created from the original book are listed as M. For more information, go todothraki.org. As the main thrust of the vocabulary development is now on the wiki on Dothraki.org, an attempt is being made to keep these versions in sync. This dictionary is being maintained as it is more portable and searchable than the wiki. In the future, it can also better handle translations into other languages. Bold indicates a Dothraki word. Italics indicate the English definition. Plaintext indicates grammatical categorization: parentheses indicate extra information. Transitivity is marked if known as vtr., intransitive as vin.: words marked v. are either unattested or ambitransitive, or their transitivity is unable to be deduced. Noun animacy is marked na. for animate nouns, and ni for inanimate nouns. Nouns marked simply n. are at this time unattested for animacy. The IPAindicates the correct pronunciation, and should now be fully up-to-date. Some transcriptions may have allomorphs, as in [qoj] or [qh oj]. There are now separate, numbered entries for each word that has different definitions for different parts of speech (root words are generally excluded from this practice). Since the lexical form of Dothraki nouns and verbs are inflected forms, you will not see stems inthis dictionary, except in a few rare cases. As this is intended to be a reading/writing dictionary, the stems are not all that useful, anyway. In most cases, the stem is fairly easily derived if you need it. Stress markings have been removed, as the stress is fairly predictable, and will be more completely addressed in a future version of this dictionary. Numbers are also listed here where DavidPeterson specifically attested one-word terms for them. There is also now a numbers section in the appendices. The words herein should include all publicly known words. But if you find more words elsewhere, spot any errors or inconsistencies, or have any comments, please let me know on the forum. Thanks. This dictionary is updated to match the Wiki edit of 16 September 2012, 21:01z., with some wordsfrom our weekly Dothraki IRC chat, and some words from David’s blog post of 9-222012. TEST MODE: Changes were recently made to the underlying code that drives the dictionary to remove a means of checking updates for accuracy, etc. offline. So, updates need to be checked online. If you see the word ’test’ following the version number, that means that the version is being actively updated, and isnot considered ’released for general use’. Use test updates at your own risk. In general, the dictionary is in test mode for only an hour or so, every 7-10 days. Come back in an hour or so, and the dictionary should be back in ’general release’ 1

state. Many praises and thanks go to Lajaki and Ingsve, who originally compiled this, and Tuiq, who originally put the coding online. Thanks also goesout to the folks at learnnavi.org, who now host the backend server and database (as well as our website), that generates this dictionary. Much of the maintenance of this dictionary is now being done by Hrakkar.

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> acchakat: [attSakat] DP vtr. to silence  > achra: [ atSRa] DP adj. smelly > achrakh: [atSRax] DP ni. stink > achralat: [atSRal ] DP v. to be smelly, to...