How do you translate "Drake" in your translation t

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » March 23rd, 2007, 10:31 pm

As I'm working on Children of the Dragons, I've read Italians translated it by "Draco" which sounds great.
I can't find an equivalent of Drake that sounds french.

wsultzbach · Post by **wsultzbach** » March 23rd, 2007, 10:38 pm

Just look in the official translations.

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » March 23rd, 2007, 10:58 pm

wsultzbach wrote:Just look in the official translations.

Ok. I had two choices:
- Looking at the official translations.
- Asking here in a forum made for translation discussions.

You could have answered me with two words, but you prefer to spend ten. I understand your answer.

Post by **Viliam** » March 24th, 2007, 8:50 am

I also did not find any good translation in Slovak... so I used "Lizard".

Post by **kilder** » March 24th, 2007, 10:00 am

Here in the Catalan translation we use Drac. I'm not particularly happy with it, but it hass became kind of a "stable" name now. Oh, wel!

As a side note, I think in the Spanish one they also use Draco

Hope it helps!

Lugo Moll · Post by **Lugo Moll** » March 24th, 2007, 2:39 pm

In the Swedish translation we use what would directly translate into "Dragon people". It's not very good, but there aren't any good alternative to dragon in Swedish...

Post by **CIB** » March 24th, 2007, 3:09 pm

Drake in German :p Well, pronounced differently, and the plural is Draken!

Post by **Mist** » March 25th, 2007, 6:29 am

(Quick look at the game) 'Smok' (noun) or 'smoczy' (adjective) which translated back to english means "dragon". Polish doesn't have a word for drake as our myths don't really distinguish between them. If there happens to be something similar to drake it's called lesser dragon.

Varkez · Post by **Varkez** » April 2nd, 2007, 6:56 pm

my language dosent have any myths for Dragons it was only translated to translate westren & Eastren Myths

so we say in arabic "Tineen" (Means dragon) "Drake" might be "AlTineen alassghar" (smaller dragon) or "altineen aldhaeef" (Weaker Dragon) so you see some others have a harder time

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Post by **caslav.ilic** » April 2nd, 2007, 11:35 pm

In my opinion, translating "drake" to an equivalent of "dragon" is quite bad. The Help texts are full of references to drakes possibly being related to "magnificent creatures of the times past", that dragons were. Hence, there is a need for clear demarcation between them.

Having said that, I just coined up the freekin' word -- it's fantasy, ain't it? :) "Dragon" in Serbian is "zmaj" (eng. pron. like "zmuy"), and I used "zmag" (pron. "zmug") for "drake", the last j/g being the difference. It retains the sound similarity between "drake" and "dragon", and is somewhat akin to its reverse, "gmaz", a Serbian archaic for "reptile" -- something low to the ground, which alludes to the not-so-magnificent nature of drakes (compared to dragons, of course).

Drake Blademaster · Post by **Drake Blademaster** » April 10th, 2007, 10:31 pm

English Spanish

Dragon = DragÃƒÂ³n

Drake = Drake

(According to this website)

Post by **Mist** » April 10th, 2007, 10:54 pm

caslav.ilic wrote: Having said that, I just coined up the freekin' word -- it's fantasy, ain't it? "Dragon" in Serbian is "zmaj" (eng. pron. like "zmuy"), and I used "zmag" (pron. "zmug") for "drake", the last j/g being the difference. It retains the sound similarity between "drake" and "dragon", and is somewhat akin to its reverse, "gmaz", a Serbian archaic for "reptile" -- something low to the ground, which alludes to the not-so-magnificent nature of drakes (compared to dragons, of course).

I quite agree , but you see there are some obvious difficulties in my language when taking this approach. In Polish there is no other word closely related to 'smok' that could preserve the meaning. And we cannot borrow from other slavic languages, as we usualy have those words in slightly changed form meaning something totaly different eg. :
Zmij - mythological dragon-god of tempest and winds
zmija - poisonus snake
zmijowy - snake (adj)
and so on

And besides, such translation was introduced in our language versions of fantasy books, making it even harder to come up with a word that doesn't sound odd to a native speaker.

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » May 16th, 2007, 9:49 am

Thanks everyone. We've choosed Dracan, Dracanne for the dev to come versions.
Oh, BTW, I didn't know that a Drake was a duck specie!

Zonzi · Post by **Zonzi** » June 4th, 2007, 11:42 am

drake in Finnish would be "Lisko". like flame drake (tuli=fire/flame) "tuli lisko"

Post by **Jetrel** » June 22nd, 2007, 12:10 am

La_vie_en_Wose wrote:Thanks everyone. We've choosed Dracan, Dracanne for the dev to come versions.
Oh, BTW, I didn't know that a Drake was a duck specie!

Well, duck gender.

Duck = female/male
Drake = male