Since i've always been interested in the linguistic influence on tes lore, I was wondering if anyones done or is interested in a writeup using the obvious real world historical-etymological bases for TES as ways of understanding concepts we don't have a clear picture of. Not as a 1-to-1 mapping of historic fact to TES fiction, but a more causal/influential relationship where the writers are drawing off of repeating archetypical historic events. This is going to be pretty messy because I'm just gauging interest.

For example, the Dwemer are clearly at least in part based on the Akkadian civilisation, and influenced by the Sumer before them too, maybe providing the -mer "person" etymology. I've always assumed Sumerian was the influence for Ehlnofex due to their being language isolates with no known origin that formed the basis of the languages of later cultures, and Sumerian words are often written in ALL-CAPS much like certain royal syllables (for instance, the word God in Akkadian is "Ilu," but in Sumerian it's "DINGIR"). Sumer was ~contemporary with the civilisation of Elam (ELAM is the Sumerian exonym for the country, which is why EL-AM might jump out at you as the type of Ehlnofex construction Kirkbride would use to mean "Divine-Experiencing." A lot of this stuff links to understanding the etymology of CHIM and AMARANTH related terms, but I won't go on that tangent), and the Behistun Inscription serves as a translation-stone between Elam and Akkadian (as well as Sumerian) much like Calcelmo's Stone translating between the Dwemer and Falmer languages (Falmer = Elam Sumer Fall (the transformation and blinding described by the stone's translation). Dwemer is probably just Dreamer We Sumer. I don't think this stuff is too meaningful or claiming that these are the real etymologies, but its certainly likely that the writers would have taken some inspiration from the names of these ancient societies for their own fictional ones, and having an idea of where their names come from helps reconstruct what themes the writer felt was important to get across, and I think their names are meant to evoke these cultures and ideas at least partially.) While the Rosetta stone is a more common cultural touchpoint and the clear visual guide for Calcelmo's, it's important to note how much TES lore is based around the same concepts repeating over and over, so it's probably proper to consider both instead of focussing on one in particular, but the Rosetta stone angle I'm sure you already know.

The Akkadians came to occupy the cultural-historical space of the Elamites and Sumerians, conquering Elam and forcing their language on it's people, much like the Dwemeri enslavement of the Falmer. The Akkadian empire collapsed without the need of a giant robot, and at this point the Sumerian King List gets a little fuzzy - let's call it a dragon break.
I could go further, but this is already rambling, and I just wanted to know if this has either been already explored at depth, or if people are interested in this line of thinking. Think there's a fair amount of insight to be gained from looking at real-world historical influences through an etymological lens, and you could get lots more from things like "AKA" (Dragon/Time/Reptile-God in Ehlnofey, as in Akatosh) and how it could relate to "AKKAD," for example.

PS. didn't know where to put this but the earth-bones/Ehlnofey are the symbol-meanings of the Ehlnofex language themselves, with Language being the fundamental natural law of any story, which TES is. This is why Vivec is the supposed sex-death of language: they claim to be the creative-destructive erasure of a written worlds constraints.