A brief list by Tobor Walenrut, Sage of Treft and environs.
It would be impossible for me, in a single volume, to set down all of the words which have come to be used by the Elfin Peoples for the assignment of names. For it seems that no verb or noun escapes their notice in the naming of children. That said, I have taken to listing some of the most common roots which help make the names of those who have had interactions with the Kingdoms of Man throughout recorded history. From these roots, then, a name can be constructed or de-constructed as the scholar has need.
For example, the Elfin Lord Sephyasin is translated "Green Spring".
Apf (fruit)
Ara (wind)
Arsda (black)
Ary (Winter)
As (hearth, homefire)
Atar (river)
Avar (air)
Bari (berry)
Bel (blue)
Bril (might)
Celar (mortal)
Dae (wild)
Dar (North or True)
Dere (guile)
Dew (tame)
Drav (contemptible, evil, spoilt)
Durr (gray)
El (folk, only referring to elves)
Eoer (folk, referring to non-elves)
Erda (brown)
Es (living brush)
Eve (bow)
Faro (broad, wide)
Fin (direction)
Fir (leaf)
Firil (leaf shaper, master farmer)
Golf (South)
Ian (skin)
Iel (tendril)
Iken (roan)
Ilim (gold, as color)
Ilsa (silver, as color)
Inga (field, planted or groomed)
Ista (branch)
Llol (specifically defensive magic)
Llor (songs or general magic)
Lloth (specifically adversarial magic)
Los (hidden)
Mal (forest)
Malas (forest home)
Mar (bough)
Mir (trunk)
Nel (water)
Nor (aged, often used of the "older" races of Dwarfs, Gnomes and Halflings)
Nyon (wooden)
Pal (tall)
Qali (long)
Qilla (bare)
Qiln (small)
Quel (meadow)
Ral (flower)
Ranaa (queen)
Rane (king)
Ren (root)
Rian (bark)
Sanya (Summer)
Sassya (Fall)
Seldar (hero)
Sephya (Spring)
Shaa (short)
Shal (stem)
Shar (shrub)
Sin (green)
Teran (earth)
Then (spirit)
Uril (thin)
Vilo (violet)
Wae (white)
Wen (clearing)
Yul (young, new)
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