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Interesting, some of them make sense, others seem to be grasping at straws. But definitely some that you can see where Bethesda has taken the inspiration,

Xand, might I recommend a clearer layout? It was somewhat difficult to read

Sovngarde: Garde of sleep (Norwegian)
Benkongerige: Kingdom of bones (Norwegian)
Honningbrew: Honey (Norwegian) + brew
Farkas: Wolf (Hungarian)
Vilkas: Wolf (Lithuanian)
Heimskr: Foolish (Icelandic/Old Norse)
Hvitkald Peak: White cold (Norwegian)
Gyldenhul Barrow: Golden hollow (Norwegian/Danish)
Udyrfrykte: Beast + fear (Norwegian)

I like that layout a lot more
And loving the Heimskr origin

If anyone has any future additions, can we use Argonanza's layout?
Word from Skyrim in bold : Translation (Origin)

Durak - Fool (male) (Russian; transliterated from дурак).
It might have been a coincidence if there was not a female Orc named Dura in Morrowind. Dura (transliterated from дура) is the feminine form of the same Russian word, signifying 'fool'.
Thus, we get a set of two Orcs, Durak and Dura, He-Fool and She-Fool.

I came across a few other things as well, but I can't recall them at the moment. If I do, I will make a post about it.

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Sovngarde: Sovn/sleep + garde/garde (Norwegian)
Benkongerige: Ben/bone + kongerige/kingdom (Norwegian)
Honningbrew: Honning/honey (Norwegian) + brew
Farkas: Wolf (Hungarian)
Vilkas: Wolf (Lithuanian)
Heimskr: Foolish (Icelandic/Old Norse)
Hvitkald Peak: Hvit/white + kald/cold (Norwegian)
Gyldenhul Barrow: Gylden/golden + hul/hollow (Norwegian)
Udyrfrykte: Udyr/beast + frykte/fear (Norwegian)

How about this format? Word/translation + word/translation.

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You see, I knew many of these words were real, because I understood them. This is a great thread. Love to see Translation Vilkas and Farkas. Sweet. What about Dragon Tongue though? Klingon.

By the kind of logic applied in the OP, the name of the Greek playwright Euripides means "Sleep well on the fifteenth": Gr. eu- "good", RIP = Eng. "rest in peace" or Lat. "requiescat in pace", Lat. ides = "middle of the month".

Or in other words, "explaining" a name by dissecting it into vaguely similar syllables from three different languages is not etymology, just a game of coincidence. (That doesn't, of course, touch the names that are obviously derived from Scandinavian languages, and Vilkas and Farkas having wolf-names is cool.)

Very nice topic.
Dragon language is somewhat similar to the old near eastern pictogramic writen languages, writen on stone and clay tablets. Cuneiform is it caled?
Maybe based on sumerian, persian, mesopothamian, im well out my history lesions from 5 th grade elementary scool and forgot a lot of the mater. I recal that one of the near east prehistoric civilzations had a dragon cult sort of religious fixation. U should look in that direction, and maybe find some point of reference.