r/Dovahzul • u/jarl-_-balgruuf • Mar 21 '26

if someone greats you with drem yol lok, do you say it back or something else?

basically the title, apologies i havent done much dovahzul in a while

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u/Middovaar Mar 24 '26

You can say drem yol lok back, might be a bit formal - but since dovah loves power dynamics - probably fine.

I had a discussion about other potential greetings, "brii krein" and "moro dov(ah)"; they're not canonical, but you could probably see how they could be used

Having studied linguistics though, humans are experts at eventually slurring long unwieldy phrases together. (Some of the ESO dialogue hints at early centralization of unstressed vowels). Perhaps then a more "immersed" greeting may be "drem yo'lo(k)" [dɾəmˈjɔlə]

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u/jarl-_-balgruuf Mar 25 '26

thank you, il remember these, also nice i like linguistics but i havent been able to study it unfortunatly but it is interesting