Drow

slih'va Term for a contemptible weakling. Despite its coincidental similarity to the Common word "slave", this term predates the documented history of the Tradespeak Empire (which, according to legend, began on the very day the Celestials themselves bequeathed the Angelic Saxon language unto the world's people; more sensible historians believe that Common evolved over centuries from a mix of dialects local to the Saxonne-Bretogna-Normaine region, but either way they agree that the language is about as old as the fable of the True Speech Tablets would indicate). Slih'va is derived from a phrase in the early Drow tongue (a pidgin of Old High Elvish and Proto-Undercommon; contrary to what the Drow would have you believe, the tunnels and caverns of what is today called Subspace were inhabited long before their civilization arose, and the language of the Duaral exiles took much from the guttural patois which Grimlocks, Deep Ones, Muscones and other ancient underworld dwellers used to communicate amongst each other)...this phrase was itself a merger of several earlier terms, which collectively can be directly translated as "one so obviously inferior that its mere existence demonstrates the moral correctness of killing it." The identification of all non-Drow as varying degrees of sleh, or "lessers", was fundamental to the fascistic culture which kept the even-then-suicidally-fractious Duaral together long enough to carve out a territory in the Dark World Below...but it's ironic that it was the addition of a goblinoid death-cult's word "iv-va", meaning "rightly killed", which led to the term evolving into its current form. The idea that it was not only acceptable but just and correct to execute those unable to survive and dominate, which today forms easily one of the four most central tenets of the Drow "state" church, would be far more difficult for the priesthood of the cavern-cities, if they could not label those they deem properly deserving of death with a single convenient word.