"Nautron respoc lorni virch", What does it mean?

Question

In Jules Verne's novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the sea, there's this phrase that was said: "nautron respoc lorni virch"

what does it mean?

Answer 1

One explanatory note in the edition translated by William Butcher (ISBN 0192828398) deduces that it means, "We have nothing in sight."

This makes the most sense as Captain Nemo exclaims this each day after he has scanned the horizon.

Some feel that the phrase has been nearly impossible to translate because Jules Verne is thought to have made up his own language or "conlang" -- a constructed or artificial language with phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary that have been devised by an individual or group, instead evolving naturally.