Editing Ama Shuya (section)

== Etymology ==
The name Ama Shuya comes from an ancient branch of Elvish which was spoken by the Tesselari elves and thus has become known as Tesselari Elvish, or TE. Much of the languages retains structure and syntax which evolved in modern Elvish. However, it also borrows heavily from [[Languages|Draconic]], presumably an evolution due to the dragonborn influence of [[Isoasar]] to the north. It also has numerous words with roots in Sylvan as well due to Sylvan being the proto-Elvish language.

In TE, "ama" means "goddess" (with "ame" meaning god) and "shuya" is a reverential word for "home," meaning more like a temple or shrine. "Shuja," meanwhile, is often used for a regular home. "Guphor" is the word for "tree," with "gupho" being "many trees" or a forest or wood. It is borrowed from the Draconic word "guvoa," which means forest. (It seems the Deneshaeans took the plural word and singularized it.)