Dryadic on Digital Dryad

Dryadic Lesson 1—Don't Drop Leaves Too Late

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lakita chut palak pfistlak pfoluksänöpiñ.

Advice from a dryad. “Don’t drop your leaves too late.”

At the beginning of Digital Dryad, Winona says to Sierra:

“What is this, your fourteenth year? Lakita chut palak pfistlak pfoluksänöpiñ. Your leaves drop too late.” Winona’s eyes narrowed…

She quoted an adage that dryads with deciduous bond trees strive to follow.

Sierra, at 14, was old to not have a bond tree. Many of the more traditional dryads found this disturbing at best and dangerous for the grove at worst. And Winona was one of the most traditional dryads in the grove. She believed that Sierra not having a bond tree was evidence that she wasn’t a dryad. She was a mere human.

Features of Dryadic

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Some interesting features of this language include:

multiple forms of grammatical numbers
- one of a thing
- two of a thing
- three to 16 of a thing
- and more than 16 of a thing
vowels can be long or short, meaning a vowel written with an umlaut is held longer than one without
- for example, the word ja’itsän has a short /a/ in the first sylable and a long /ä/ in the last
attaching the suffix -sän to a word means that word is related to plants
- for example ja’itsän means tree and is a combination of the words ja’it (mother) and the suffix sän (of plants)

Vocabulary in Book 1

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:39:51 -0700

Here are some of the Dryadic terms you might find in Digital Dryad.

Dryadic	English translation
a’il	daughter, girl, child
akwinti	Junior priestess
isha	to be
chakjos	root rot (expletive)
iña	Speak
ja’it jilkwüf	Mother Earth
ja’itsän	tree
ja’itsäniñ	trees (plural more than 16)
jilja’it	grandmother
kiklwa pfil pfünöp	I love you
klän	Sorry
klinti	priestess
klintiñi	priestesses (plural more than 16)
Latñi	Matriarch
Latñi Tsiloki	The Goddess GLOS: matriarch grand
pashi	filthy, dirty, expletive
pfa’uljä	Welsh oak
pnksäwf	Sylvan Lattice
shjasän	Larch
Slashi’ashat	Salix Basin
Tiku’itsäwf	Golden Marmot Woodland
tsälstiñikwa	Willows
tsälstiñuk	of the willow
Tsilwa’itsäwf	SilfrenDeor Lucus
wu’akital	human
wu’akital pashi	filthy human
wu’akitaliñ	humans (plural more than 16)
wu’akitalukotka’	computer
wu’asän	dryad
wu’asän tsia Wu’asäwf	dryad of the Dryad Forest
wu’asäniñ	Dryads (plural more than 16)
wu’asäwf	Dryad Forest