As part of a new animation project I have begun creating a dictionary of the imaginary language that I play theorize the Mythos uses. In other words the conceit is that the bizarre words are all part of a single language.
Work so far:
| SYLLABLE | MEANING | ||
| A | Cloud | ||
| Ab | Isle, Island, Outcropping | ||
| Af | Relative | Sibling, child, born of, connected to | |
| Ais | From | ||
| Arl | Man | ||
| Arn | People | Collection of people, both sexes, all ages. | |
| Ath | Female | ||
| Az | Daemon | ||
| Beth | City Gates | ||
| Cel | Hidden | ||
| Cth | Water | ||
| Eg | Bowl | Crater, Jar, Bucket | |
| Eh | Choke | ||
| Ek | Collection | Walled City, Fortress, Throng | |
| Ep | Time | ||
| Eph | Throne | ||
| Go | Wild | ||
| Gu | Next | ||
| Gua | Octopus | ||
| Ha | Above | High, Raised up, Sky | |
| Has | God | ||
| Hu | King | ||
| Ian | Realm | ||
| Il | State | Nation, Huge settlement, Empire | |
| Kad | Fall | Tumbled, Fallen, Tipped Out, Cast Down | |
| Kal | Beautiful | ||
| Kla | Mountain | ||
| Le | Hill | Mound, Barrow, small mountain or peak | |
| Len | High | High altitude, raised, elevated, distant upwards | |
| Ly | Underwater | ||
| Me | Not | ||
| Mi | Man | ||
| Mir | Dry | ||
| Mon | Bone | gomon: shoulder bone, oracle bones | |
| Moo | Green | ||
| Nn | Deep | ||
| Nu | Bottomless | ||
| Ny | Dark | ||
| Og | Giant | ||
| On | Wind | Breath, Sigh, Mist | |
| Oo | Shallow | ||
| Ood | Tooth | Fang, Bite, Chomp, Spike | |
| Or | Knowledge | Education and learning, NOT wisdom | |
| Oth | Sultan | ||
| Qua | Walker | ||
| Quah | Boneless | ||
| R' | City | ||
| Ra | Bright | ||
| Rai | White | ||
| Ri | Shining | Glowing, bright, sparkling, flash, flashing | |
| Ru | City | ||
| Sar | Shore | Beach, Strand, Shoals, Ford, Shallows | |
| Ser | Pink | ||
| Shan | Bird | ||
| Soth | Gate | ||
| Tak | Scale | ||
| Th | Wet | ||
| Thaq | Wall | ||
| Thar | Shire | ||
| Theg | Lake | Crater Lake, Flooded Bowl, Full Bucket | |
| Thu | Rain | ||
| Ts | Toad | ||
| Tur | Field | ||
| Ul | Dream | ||
| X | Place | ||
| Xa | Known | ||
| Xe | Unknown | ||
| Ya | Flow | ||
| Yi | Mud | ||
| Yig | Serpent | Snake, winding, coiled, slithering | |
| Yog | Key | ||
| Yug | Ice | ||
| Zep | First | ||
| Zho | Croaking | ||
The funny thing is, due I think partly to the good education in the classics of Lovecraft and his Circle and partly due to natural influence of their own native tongue, a vast amount of Mythos gibberish is actually derived or could be argued as being derived from PIE or prehistoric PIE ancestor tongues. Also due to repetitious borrowing and the desire to make new names fit at least subconsciously with what has gone before, the words begin to make their own kind of squirrelly sense.
It's not exactly Tolkien's Elvish but I will be using my version in my new animated series and it makes it easier for me to coin new gibberish as needed.