the dwarves have been gone for nearly 3000 or so years no one can even read what they wrote understand their tech or speak their language all anyoen knows is they went poof and they all vanished
jayziss, its part of vocabulary, also referring to machinery. Dwemer ruins, dwemer mechanisms. you can't expect to have someone full decked head to toe in dwarven metal armor that friggin glows and not be like, 'hey, that dude looks like he just crawled out of a dwemer ruin.' sooth thy boobs.