Wede:i lexicon

Many words that require a separate root in English can be expressed with suffixes in Wede:i. Review the first part of the grammar for ideas.

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-a:i	locative suffix
a:inu	help, assist, accompany
a:inua	help, assistance
a:inuŋ	helpful
ak	an honorific
Akba:un	legendary king of Tewor, who unified the Xengi delta in the realm of Yenine [honorific + ‘storm’]
Aklu:ma	the goddess of the sea [honorific + ‘great sea’]
Akru:	the sun god [honorific + ‘sun’]
Akśim	the Xengi river [honorific + Śim ‘Long’, earlier name of the river]
aktik	monster; one of the old gods [‘great old one’]
anda	ash tree
auko	dog
ba	half
bai	tower
ba:ilu	remove, escape ba:ilsa condemn; expel, fire bamba:ilu flee
ba:ilua	escape, removal
ba:n	oats
ba:nsirgu	beggar [‘person without oats’]
baŋ	six (10 in Wede:i base six number system)
baŋotu	the basis of measurement, about a meter [‘half-height (of a man)’]
bataur	month, 1/8 of the year [‘half season’]
bau	quiet, tranquil
ba:un	storm ba:unli stormy
bauŋauji	discreet, tight-mouthed [‘quiet tongue’]
beda	sister, or daughter of any data/papa
bediśa	child of any beda
Begoŋ	the largest of Almea’s moons (Iliažë)
Begoŋitera	king of Yenine, conqueror of Saiśi [‘moonlight’]
beme	lip
ben	under benuŋ low, lower bensa lower (make low)
benpapa	grandmother (mother of a papa) [‘lower mother’]
bendata	grandfather (father of a data) [‘lower father]
benśen	topsy-turvy; anarchic; confused [‘down-up’]
benśentin	the day when all laws are reversed [‘down-up-day’]
bente:du	immoral, impure, perverse [‘low mind’]
benur	bottom, base
benzi	concubine [‘lower woman’]
beśa	flesh, muscle
beśak	body [‘flesh-collection’]
beśama	muscular, powerful
beśamiŋ	bodily substance (cf. Ax. kimin) [‘flesh-substance’]
beśaŋaza	organ [‘flesh clay’]
beśul	bodily, physical
bi:	white, bright; fair (of skin)
bi:ka	silver
Bi:dau	capital of ancient Yenine in classic period [‘white city’]
bika	fir
bi:noŋ	steel [‘bright metal’]
Birbi:	Iliacáš, one of the moons [‘very bright’]
biźi	grass
biźia:i	meadow biźia:in grassland, steppe
bo	one bola:uŋ once bono first
Bo:	the Bolon river
bogu	individual, person; someone [‘one person’] boguśa who
boka	object, thing; something [‘one’ + nominalizer] bokaśa what
bokabu	front [‘thing-before’]
bokati	back [‘thing-after’]
bokado	there, in that place [‘thing-LOC’] bokadośa where
bokugo	turnip, rutabaga [‘one cap’, from its shape]
Bo:lun	the northern Bo: valley, modern Bolon [‘northern Bo:’]
bo:ndo	46656 (1,000,000 in Wede:i base six number system)
Bo:ndola:i	lord of Śima:i who founded kingdom of Na:nyanok [‘a million glories’]
bori	island
boruŋ	union [‘one rule’]
boruŋul	united
Bo:saŋ	the southern Bo: valley, modern Bozan [‘southern Bo:’]
boyok	sum, count; price [‘one-two’]
boyokak	counting, addition, calculation [‘set of sums’] nanuŋ boyokak mathematics
boyokma	total, sum of sums [‘great sum’]
boyoku	count (v), add, calculate
bu	before, preceding
buka	deer
bukuro	owl
buku:ru	promise [‘before-give’]
bu:na	emptying; the time it takes to empty one tier of a water clock; cosmic cycle
bu:nu	empty; pour out
bu:niśu	torture [‘little emptying’]
buru	loon
buśiga	plan, strategy; project
buśigu	plan, strategize, work out [‘before-work’]
da:iu	value, appreciate; favor da:ira be valuable, be worthy da:ize disdain da:iulma favorite [‘more valued’]
dakal	salt dakalul salty, salted
data	father, or paternal uncle
datapan	parents [‘father-mother-PL’] datapansir orphan
dau	city daudo in the city; urban
dauka	whale
da:ur	skin; bark (of a tree); sail; a skin sack (for wine etc.) da:uruŋ naked, bare
da:ursir	skinned, raw [‘skinless’] da:ursirsa skin
da:wi	boy, child (before puberty)
da:wiŋa:u	boyish, childish [‘boy way’]
de:i	people, nation
de:igu	commoner, citizen, human
De:iju	the uncivilized people southeast of the Xengi [‘eastern people’]
De:ijubori	Jecuor [‘De:iju island’]
de:ite:du	popular, common [‘people-mind’]
digu	hide; mean, signify
digupea	hiding; meaning
di:n	daughter; girl
di:nŋa:u	girlish
do:	wind, breeze; air
Do:ju	Wede:i state east of Bozan [‘east wind’]
do:k	manure, dung
do:ku	excrete, poop
dolu	hang dolsa hang (trans.)
do:n	horse
Do:na:i	city in Jeor [‘horse land’]
do:nkomo	stable, barn (for horses or cattle) [‘horse house’]
do:te:du	agitated, excited [‘windy mind’]
do:ul	windy, breezy
dowo	no, not; nothing
dowodo	nowhere
dowogu	nobody
dowojok	only, just [‘not other’]
dowoyona	denial, contradiction, refusal
dowoyonu	deny, contradict; refuse [‘say no’]
doźośu:	elm [unknown element + ‘tree’]
du:r	mortar (for grinding)
duzu	have, own, possess duzupe keep, retain
duzugea	ownership, possession
duzul	slave [‘owned’]
duzula	slavery
duzupea:i	prison, dungeon [‘keeping-place’]
eze:r	1276 (10,000 in the Wede:i base six number system)
gai	log, beam; battering ram
gala:i	enclosure; walled town; ward, neighborhood
gala:igu	neighbor (someone from the same ward)
galu	close, enclose
galwen	cover, stopper [‘close-tool’]
gau	that (subordinating particle)
gauji	fruit; (financial) interest
ge:ŋ	beard
Ge:ŋgun	the northern barbarians, including the Easterners [‘beard-men’]
giźo	hot, be hot
giźoma	summer [‘great hot’]
go	away; that
goju	steal [prob. ‘(make) away’]
gojugu	thief, robber
goŋe	wrong, false, incorrect
goŋeka	wrongness, falseness
goŋŋerul	zombie, undead, being resurrected by magic [‘false-lived’]
goŋyona	lie, falsehood
goŋyonu	lie; deceive
goŋze	true, correct
goŋzeka	truth
go:rtu	sea, ocean
gotak	ktuvok [Munkhâshi gotalh]
Gotaka:i	Munkhâsh [‘ktuvok land’]
gotakgu	Munkhâshi
gouŋ	far [‘awayish’]
go:źi	eat go:źisa feed go:źiyai break one’s fast, have breakfast
go:źiji	food
gu:me	man gu:me zimi human [‘man or woman’]
gu:meŋa:u	human [‘man-way’]
guśa	respect, honor
guśu	bow down; honor, respect
guto	wide, broad gutosa widen, broaden gutoze narrow, thin
i:l	eye
i:lsir	blind [‘without eye’]
itera	light, radiance
iteru	shine
ituri	read
ja:ia	story; report nanuŋ ja:ia epic, myth [‘holy story’]
ja:iu	tell, recount, tell a story
jalan	wave
jalnu	wave (v)
jan	arrow
jaŋgu	archer, bowman
jaŋu	breathe
ja:tu	measure
ja:tuji	scales
ja:u	7776 (100,000 in the Wede:i base six number system)
jauka	wolf Jaukaroda the Wolf God; the planet Caiem
jeba	debt
jebu	owe
jebuśigu	creditor
jebugu	debtor
Jei	the Ideis river; the Jeori
Jeinizun	first capital of Jeor [‘Jei Palaces’]
Jeiboruŋ	Jeor, Wede:i state southwest of Axunai; formed by union of Jeinizun and Taŋgun in 250; nucleus of later Jeori Empire; conquered by Gurdagor c. 1980 [‘Jei Union’]
jen	forest
jeru	push jerpeu have sex
je:tun	coyote
ji	ford, river crossing
jiro	moment, hour; time jirośa when
jirowen	water clock [‘hour tool’]
jok	other, another
jokyona	answer, reply (n)
jokyonu	answer, reply [‘say (to) other’]
jo:na	cat
joŋ	black, dark; brunette
joŋka	darkness; shadow X-no joŋka ŋa:rjuze can’t stand X [‘his shadow can’t touch (me)’]
joŋgu	barbarian, esp. Ezičimi [‘dark man’]
joŋnoŋ	iron [‘black metal’]
joŋzau	cassiterite; tin [‘black sand’]
ju	east
juku	sneeze
juŋ	son; boy
-ka-	additive
kago	basket
kai	leg
ka:ima:i	shop, store [‘buy-place’]
ka:imu	buy ka:imśi sell
ka:imugu	buyer, customer
ka:imuji	purchase, sale; deal
kaiwen	leggings, trousers [‘leg-tool’]
kal	good X gau kalta state of affairs X would be good kaldata father-in-law kalpapa mother-in-law
kala	goodness
kalkal	fine, excellent [‘good-good’]
kalliu	approve, like [‘good see’]
kalliul	friend [‘liked’]
kalnoru	fit; suit, be acceptable [‘good size’]
kalnoruŋ	fitting, suitable, acceptable
kalsim	proverb [‘good word’]
kalzi	wife [‘good-woman’]
kamu	guard
kamugu	guard (person)
kariji	neck
ka:u	mouth
ka:ulau	clam [‘mouth-shell’]
ka:yomo	marvel, wonder at ka:yomosa amaze, cause to marvel
ka:yomul	wondrous, amazing
ka:yomuliś	curious, strange
kenur	oak
kenurmiŋ	tannin [‘oak substance’]
kenurul	tanned; leather
keŋ	foot; bar, bar-shaped object
keŋka	shoe, sandal [‘foot-thing’]
ke:ta	216 (1000 in Wede:i base six number system)
ki	tooth
ki:be	fat, thick ki:besa thicken, fatten
kildo	weak, fragile kildosa weaken
kimu	bite
kin	frog
kinwen	trick [‘frog-tool’]
kinwensir	innocent, guileless, earnest [‘without a trick’]
kinwenuŋ	tricky, conniving
kiŋ	joint
kiŋu	join, combine
koku	die koksa kill kokul dead; dead person, corpse
koklukśu	nightshade (a poisonous plant) [‘death onion’]
kokuji	death
kokuti	mourning [‘death-after’]
komo	house
komoma	the world, the universe [‘big house’]
komogu	servant [‘house-man’]
komozi	maidservant
koza:	rib; side
-ku-	object suffix
kudu	break kunkudu break in pieces, fall apart
kugo	hat, cap
kulana	cod
kunu	rain Kunge it’s raining
kur	ram
ku:rboyokak	multiplication; (mathematical) product
ku:rboyoku	multipy [‘calculation of giving’]
ku:ru	give
ku:rul	gift; given
la:i	glory, glorious
La:ia	son of Suma:un; lost empire to civil war [‘glorious one’]
laŋ	sheep, goat
laŋak	flock of sheep or goats
laŋakgu	herdsman (of sheep/goats)
la:ŋu	marry la:ŋeŋu marry each other la:ŋsa arrange a marriage
la:ŋgu	groom la:ŋtagu fiancé
la:ŋlauji	bride-price
la:ŋzi	bride la:ŋtazi fiancée
lau	type of seashell
la:u	come la:usa summon la:upe frequent, come a lot
lauji	money [‘shell’ + nominalizer]
la:uk	because [derivation of ‘come’; i.e ‘it comes of...’]
lauku:ru	pay [‘money-give’]
la:uliu	find, meet [‘come see’]
la:wa:i	source, origin; well (for water) [‘come-place’]
legau	pear
leźu	trust leźa responsibility
leźugu	trustee, responsible person
leźul	trusted, loyal, trustworthy
leźulze	untrustworthy, disloyal
lila:u	approach [‘come near’]
lilkomogu	neighbor (lives very close by) [‘near-house-man’]
liu	see lisa explain, point out, show lira appear, be seen lipe watch, care for
lil	this; nearby [liul ‘seen’] lil jiro now lil tin today
lilbu	recent [‘near-before’]
lildata	fatherly; just, fair [‘near-father’]
lildataze	unfatherly; unjust, unfair
lildi:n	niece (daughter of any roda) [‘near-daughter’]
liljoŋ	nephew (son of any roda) [‘near-son’]
lilti	soon to come, imminent, pending [‘near-after’]
liluŋ	near, close; almost [‘nearish’] dauni liluŋ near the city
liyonuŋ	honest [‘see-speaking’, i.e. saying what you see]
loda	peace
lodaŋa:u	peaceful, benign [‘peace way’]
loŋ	buckle, clasp
losu	moose, elk Losuna:n the Elk Goddess; the planet Hírumor losuwo ŋo:duge on the trail of something big, on to something
losumiŋ	emerald [‘Hírumor substance’]
lu:	water
lu:juŋ	prince [‘son of water’, i.e. of Akśim]
lukśu	onion
lu:lu	runny, melted [‘water’ reduplicated]
lumu	wash lumura be clean
lun	north
lungu	northerner, i.e. a Wede:i not from the delta
lu:sir	dry [‘without water’]
lu:te:du	emotional, passionate; passion [‘water-mind’]
lu:źensagu	engineer (of irrigation works) [‘water driver’]
mai	wheat
ma:in	star
ma:inyaro	maple [‘star leaf’]
ma:ku	defeat
mak	cousin (children of maternal uncle or paternal aunt)
ma:l	color, pigment ma:lsa color (v)
mamak	child of a mak
ma:n	great, good, noble; (as a suffix to a place name X) greater X, the X region [augm. -ma is a worn-down form]
ma:na	greatness, nobility
ma:ngu	noble, nobleman [‘great person’]
ma:nna:ŋgu	high priest (in charge of a major temple)
ma:nzi	noblewoman
Ma:ndau	a city, Ax. Mendau [‘great city’]
ma:nte:du	pure, moral [‘great mind’]
maŋa	sphere, ball
maŋaŋa:u	round, curved [‘ball way’]
maŋayuma	a type of flower with a spherical head [‘ball-flower’]
maŋiśa	bead, small ball
ma:r	female, feminine, womanly; warp (of loom)
ma:rzi	a girl or woman, a female
mau	fill
ma:un	leopard, panther
meker	wing
melen	heart
melenokuda	heartbreak, grief [‘heart-breaking’]
men	pine cone
menśu:	pine tree
menśu:lu:	resin [‘pine water’]
miku	tie
miksek	kohl, antimony, stibium [Elkarîl mikcheq]
mikwen	rope
mir	worm
miriŋ	snake
miśol	moss
moga	ear
mogalau	oyster [‘ear-shell’]
moganopaźiwa	minister, vizier [‘king’s ear’]
mogasir	deaf [‘without ear’]
mogau	peach
mo:mo	young
mo:moa	youth
Mo:mor	capital of late Wede:i state of Jeor; Ax. Momor [‘young town’]
mo:ngu	young man, youth
mo:nguda:igu	homosexual, gay [‘favors young men’]
mo:nzi	young woman, maiden rajino mo:nzi temple maiden
moźa	dream (n)
moźane	prosaic; possible, likely ra:i moźane dreamlike, fantastical; unlikely
moźu	dream
mu:	waist
muku	bull
mun	holy
muna	holiness; religion
muna:i	temple [‘holy place’] muna:itin festival, holy day
mura	turning; change; a level of being
muri	turn, change
Muriŋeli	the land of the dead
mu:wen	belt
na:i	bird
Na:iwor	a city along the Ideis [‘western bird’]
naka	hemp
na:n	god
na:nku:ru	propitiate, sacrifice [‘god-give’]
na:npauduŋ	pious [‘god-worshipping’]
na:nśauk	rite, ritual [‘god-rule’]
Na:nyanok	ancient kingdom along the middle Xengi. centered on Śimai [‘the god spoke’]
na:nyona	prayer
na:nyonu	pray [‘god-speak’]
nanuŋ	divine; numinous, academic
Nanuŋitera	king of Yenine, son of Begoŋitera; conqueror of Na:nyanok, promulgator of first law code, directed assembly of Old Syllabary [‘Divine radiance’]
nanuŋze	worldly, secular [‘not divine’]
na:ŋgu	priest [‘god-man’]
nau	ox
na:wen	axe
ne:npea	flight
ne:ni	fly ne:nsa throw, shoot (arrows)
naza	aunt (paternal aunt, or wife of any uncle)
neru	lie down nerenu sleep together nersa set down, lay, put
neruwen	bed [‘thing for lying down in’]
ni:	field
ni:gu	farmer, peasant
niji	animal [‘walk’ + nominalizer]
nine	hill
niŋ	bag, sack
niŋgau	fig [‘bag fruit’, from the shape]
niŋmagu	trader, merchant
niŋmali	trade, commerce [‘with a big sack’]
niŋmala:i	market, trading place
nitu	walk
nituk	for the purpose of, in order to [from ‘walk’; cf la:uk] nitukśa why (for what purpose; cf. ta:uno)
niz	mansion, palace
-no-	possessive suffix
no:	red no:sa redden no:ensa blush
no:bi:	copper [‘red bright’]
no:biźi	redcane (a reedy plant found in marshes, with woody red stalks) [‘red grass’]
no:ta:	strawberry [‘red berry’]
nu:l	healthy nu:lsa cure nu:lze sick, unhealthy nu:lsagu physician, doctor
nu:n	tripod
ŋa:i	hand ŋa:ili by hand, manual; personally Sekino ŋa:ini in Seki’s favor
ŋa:ila:u	beckon, invite [‘hand-come’]
ŋauji	tongue
ŋaiki	bring, fetch, carry ŋaikra ride (animal in INS)
ŋaikwen	wagon, cart [‘bring-tool’]
ŋampu	vomit
ŋa:ri	touch, feel (by hand) [related to ‘hand’]
ŋa:u	way, path
ŋa:una	street, road
ŋa:uze:ngea	wisdom
ŋa:uze:nu	be wise [‘know the way’]
ŋaza	clay, earth; a clay tablet
ŋazate:du	creative; creativity, art [‘earth mind’]
ŋe:du	sweat, exude
ŋegea	rising; enlightenment, revelation, discovery [from ŋeu]
ŋeka	flower
ŋekaŋa:u	pretty, lovely [‘flower-like’]
ŋeli	land, country
ŋergea	life, existence
ŋeru	live, reside ŋerenu live together
ŋera:i	household, residence [‘living place’]
ŋeu	rise, climb ŋesa lift, raise
ŋewa	flax
ŋewen	step, stair [‘climb-tool’]
ŋibo	hips; lap
ŋiboji	apron, cloth worn over the loincloth
ŋina	singing, music
ŋinji	song
ŋinu	sing ŋinsa play (an instrument)
ŋir	left (side)
ŋiyan	linen
ŋo:du	hunt
ŋo:dugu	hunter; scout
ŋok	jar
ŋokma	large jar
ŋol	fire ŋolzau glass
ŋolu	burn, be on fire ŋolsa cause to burn, set on fire
ŋoltur	charcoal [‘burned stick’]
ŋoŋ	metal [Elkarîl ngông]
ŋoŋgu	elcar [‘metal man’]
ŋora	largeness; size
ŋor	big, large; (of people) tall
ŋorsi	plant, vegetable
ŋosu	flog, whip
ŋota	high; height
ŋotaŋeli	steppe, plateau, desert [‘highland’]
ŋozi	same
ŋoziyedu	pity, sympathize [‘same feel’] ŋoziyedurouŋ pitiful
ŋoziyedua	pity, sympathy
ŋu:ma	mountain ŋu:mak mountain range
Ŋu:made:i	the Lenani people [‘mountain people’]
ŋun	grape [from Elkarîl]
o:	furrow
pa:ia	division, part, portion; judgment
pa:igu	judge (person)
pa:iku:ru	share, apportion [‘give parts’]
paiju	fear
pa:ika	wall [‘divide-thing’]
paira	basin, pool
pa:iu	divide; judge
palin	again yok palin twice śir palin three times
pamu	hear, listen
pana	rooster
papa	mother, or maternal aunt
pasur	donkey, ass; an ass-load
paudu	worship, venerate
paudurouŋ	highness (royal honorific) [‘to be worshipped’]
pauka	mole
paun	some
paunśa	how much? [‘some’ + ‘which’]
paźiwa	king paźiwano royal (belonging to the king)
paźiwaka:u	envoy, ambassador [‘king mouth’]
-pe-	repetitive particle
peŋi	play (games) benśentino peŋi take liberties, go too far, act above one’s place
peŋiji	game
pe:ra	hurt, wound
pe:ru	hurt, wound pe:renu be in pain
pija	mud, dirt
pik	green
pikiśi	herb [‘little green’]
pina	five
piŋgau	apple
pir	hand harp, lyre
pirma	large harp
po:	hair
ponu	jump
poŋ	dust, powder; ground; floor
poŋgu	mortal
poŋze	supernatural, uncanny, otherworldly
pudo	bean; pebble
pu:k	crime; evil
pu:kgu	criminal, sinner; prisoner
pu:kliu	hate, hold in contempt [‘evil see’]
pu:ksir	flawless, perfect [‘without evil’]
pu:ku	sin, do evil, commit crimes
puljuuŋ	allowed, permitted [‘able to stand’]
pulu	stand; stay, remain pulpeuŋ constant, continuing X pulenu X exists, there is X Ydo X pulenu X exists among Y, Y is one of those that X
pulukokul	ghost, restless spirit [‘remain-dead’]
puŋan	wood
puŋante:du	spiritual, wise, unworldly [‘wood-mind’]
Puro	the Puro river, running parallel to the Xengi
Puroŋeli	Wede:i state along the upper Xengi, X. Pronel [‘Puro land’]
ra	in, inside
ra:bo	cloth, fabric
ra:boak	bolt or roll of cloth
ra:boakiśi	bribe [‘little bolt of cloth’]
rada	seed; semen
ragoju	sneak in, infiltrate; spy [‘in-steal’]
ragojugu	spy
ra:i	none, not any
raji	interior, insides
raka	harvest, autumn; birth Rakanotin harvest festival
raku	bear (a child); harvest crops; (passive) be born, yield
ral	shrine, oracle
ralŋaiki	bless [‘shrine-bring’] ralŋaikul blessed; blessing
ralsim	omen, oracle’s word
Ra:n	the name of the main river of Rajjay
ranak	guts, intestines [‘set of innards’]
ranakuŋ	esoteric; magic
ranakuŋak	magic, sorcery
raśak	fox Raśakma the Fox God; the planet Vereon
rau	door, gate
raźa	vagina
raźazi	whore [‘vagina woman’]
re:du	frown
reja	sky
reku	trap, catch
re:te	cold
re:tema	winter [‘great cold’]
ri:di	light (not heavy) ri:disa lighten ri:diyuma drunk [‘light head’]
ril	egg; testicle
rila:i	ovary, womb [‘egg place’]
rilku:ruŋ	hen [‘egg-giver’]
rilsirgu	eunuch [‘without testes’]
rimu	weave
riŋu	rot, spoil; ferment riŋul rotten, spoiled; decayed, squalorous
riŋtuka	rye beer [‘rot-rye’]
riŋtuka:i	tavern, inn
-ro-	imperative suffix
roda	brother, or son of any tada/papa
rok	out, outside
rokla:gu	outsider, foreigner
rokla:uŋ	foreign
rokur	exterior, surface; form, shape
ro:źo	uncle (maternal uncle, or husband of any aunt)
ru:	Ënomai, the sun
rugu	cut, carve
ruk	sharp
rukŋa:i	claw
rukŋa:iji	crab
rukwen	weapon
ruŋa:i	capital, kingdom, city-state. All these were pretty much equivalent in early Wede:i times; later on the ‘kingdom’ was still identified with the seat of administration [‘place of ruling’]
ruŋu	govern ruŋgu governor
ruti	rush, hurry; run
ruwen	loom [rim- ‘weave’ + ‘machine’]
ruźi	checked, spotted, speckled
ruźina:i	pheasant [‘spotted bird’]
Sabi	the Sainor people [from a Sainor language]
sakana	fish
sai	middle, central
saiji	middle, center
Saiśi	ancient kingdom on Lake Van; Axunašin Sayiši [‘middle lake’]
saiźenu	mediate, facilitate [‘middle-go’] saiźengu go-between saiźenzi female go-between, esp. for marriages, affairs
saŋ	south
sa:un	law, regulation sa:unak law code, canon
seki	night
sekibu	evening, twilight [‘night-before’]
sela:i	warlord, general; commander
sessim	gratitude, thanks [‘thank-word’]
sesu	thank, be grateful Sesiŋku Thank you!
si	room
sim	word (spoken or written), character, glyph, symbol; name simul written; literate
soŋka	bear (animal) Soŋkana:n the Bear God; the planet Imiri
soŋmiŋ	jade [‘Bear God substance’]
soźu	lose
su:	new
su:a	novelty, newness
Su:dau	Wede:i state on the Xengi [‘New city’]
suku	stab, pierce
sukwen	dagger sukwenma spear
sukwenka	swordfish
Suma:un	son of Toma:un, expanded Jeori empire [‘new leopard’]
suri	circle
suriji	band, circular adornment
śabuk	fast, quick dowo śabukma finally, at last [‘not too quick’]
śabuka	quickness, speed
śabukka	swallow (bird) [‘fast-animal’]
Śabukma	Naunai, the smallest and fastest moon [‘fast’ + augment.]
śabukmiŋ	quicksilver, mercury
śaka	finger
śaki	makeup; a seed pod that produces red pigment [from the shape] śakipeśi singing girl [‘over made up’]
śagu	drink śagupe drink liquor, get drunk śagokpeuŋ intoxicated
śaguji	a drink
śal	beautiful, handsome
śala	beauty
śai	prop, support (n)
śaigu	supporter, partisan
śa:u	guilt, shame śa:usir shameless, sinful
śauk	rule śaukra be ruled, be subject to śaukragu subject śaukgu ruler, lord
śauklauji	tax [‘rule-money’]
śaukźoma	revolt, rebellion
śaukźomu	rebel, revolt [‘rule-oppose’]
śa:uliu	blame, accuse (sin is in instrumental) [‘see shame’]
śayu	support, prop up (v)
śe:	bone
śebargu	scribe, writer, clerk
śebaru	write
śebarul	scroll, book
śela	shelter, protection; harbor, port
śelu	shelter, protect
śen	above śenuŋ ‘upper’
śendi:n	granddaughter [‘upper daughter’]
śenjuŋ	grandson [‘upper son’]
śenka	roof, ceiling [‘above thing’]
śenur	top
śeya	soft, blunt
śi	lake
śiga	work (n)
śiga:i	workshop, workplace
śigu	work; negotiate
śim	long; older name of the Xengi river (Akśim)
Śima:i	oldest Wede:i city-state, on the middle Xengi [‘Xengi place’]
śin	cow
śinak	herd of cattle
śinakgu	cattleman, cattle herder
Śinji	a Wede:i state along the Xengi; Axunašin Šinji [‘cow ford’]
śiŋa	loincloth
śir	three śirno third
śira	one third (fraction)
śirabataur	week (really 12 days) [‘third (of) month’]
śiśu	whisper [imitative]
śiya	small, little
śoba:n	oatmeal [‘boiled oats’]
śojo	chin; pride
śojoka:u	prideful; proud person [‘proud mouth’]
śok	bundle
śoku	wrap, bundle sokenu wrap oneself; wear (clothes take INS)
śokuma	robe
śona:i	kitchen [‘place for cooking’]
śongu	cook, kitchen worker
śonu	boil; cook
śoŋu	hit, strike
śu:	tree
śubu	spit
śuiśu	bush
śuk	stone, rock
śukuŋ	stony, rocky
śukyuma	stubborn, rigid [‘stone-head’]
śukzau	crystal [‘rock-sand’]
ta:	berry
ta:i	to the right of ta:ia right side
taku	stop, end takuŋ final, last
tan	fertile
taŋ	thirty-six (100 in Wede:i base six number system)
Taŋgun	Wede:i trading confederacy, united with Jeinizun to form Jei Union [‘men of the Taŋ, the Thirty-Six’]
Taŋŋeli	the Tanel peninsula [‘fertile land’]
tareŋ	blood
ta:uno	why (what is the cause or mechanism; cf. nitukśa); cause, reason
ta:unosir	random, arbitrary, senseless [‘without why’]
taur	quarter, one fourth; season
tause	four
tausema	lunch, dinner (the main meal of the day) [‘noon’ + AUGM]
te:	arm; branch (of river)
te:du	mind, brain; soul, spirit
te:dusir	idiotic, stupid [‘brainless’]
tengea	election, choice
tensir	mandatory, necessary [‘no choice’]
tensiru	need, must have tensirra be necessary
tenu	elect, choose
tel	male, masculine, manly; weft (on loom)
telgu	boy or man; a male
teldi:n	tomboy [‘manly daughter’]
telpapa	lesbian [‘manly mother’]
Tewor	an ancient city-state in the Xengi delta [‘west (river) branch’]
ti	after, following
tika	oldness, age
tik	old
tin	day
tinbu	yesterday
tinno	o’clock (see Calendar section) [‘of the day’] bo tinno dawn tause tinno noon baŋ tinno dusk
tinti	tomorrow
tiraji	face
tisi	urine (n, v)
tiyona	squid
ti:zi	cry, weep
ti:ziji	tear, tears
tiźengu	follower; disciple
tiźenu	follow [‘go after’]
to	knife
to:	cunning, clever to:ma genius to:ze dull, dumb
toa	sword
toagu	soldier, swordsman
toak	army [‘sword collection’]
tok	blue
Tokna:n	one of the gods; also the name of Lake Van [‘blue god’]
tokta:	blueberry
to:l	each, every
to:lyonul	famous, celebrated [‘all talked about’]
to:lze:nu	certain [‘always known’]
Toma:un	founder of Jeori empire (c. 750) [‘Clever leopard’]
to:rogu	thunder [imitative]
tu:	crossroads
tu:bu	smooth
tu:buze	rough; difficult[‘not smooth’]
tuka	rye
tula:u	decide [‘come to the crossroads‘]
tu:ma	bend; arc, bow; arch
tu:mu	bend (v)
tur	stick (n)
turiśi	twig; peg; key (locks were pegs preventing a door from opening) turiśul locked turiśili galu lock turiśili yomosa unlock
turma	branch
-un	plural morpheme
wada	stool, chair (backed chairs were rare)
wa:i	boat
wa:igu	sailor
wa:ima	ship
Wa:ior	city on the Čiqai [‘town of boats’]
waipa	chicken
waka	crazy, insane wakasa make crazy
wakagu	lunatic, crazy person
wakiśa	silly, nonsensical
waŋu	sit
wata	year to:l wata annual
watasu:	spring [‘new year’]
wau	bark (of a dog)
wawa	baby
we:	great, mighty, strong, robust
we:a	might, greatness, strength
wedaŋ	alert, vigilant
Wede:i	name of the Wede:i peoples [‘mighty people’]
wen	luck wenli lucky, fortunate
we:niz	fortress, castle [‘mighty palace’]
wensir	unlucky, unfortunate
we:poŋ	medicine [‘strong powder’]
We:sela:i	general, last of Jeori emperors [‘mighty warlord’]
we:śi	make, build; found, establish
we:śigea	establishment, making
wete	birch
weyu	serve as, take the role of, function as (role is in ACC)
Wila:r	name of a goddess, and a planet (Išira) named after her Wila:rno tinun the festival of Wila:r, at the spring planting
wok	flea, louse
woŋboka	monster [‘horror-thing’]
woŋi	feel disgust or horror woŋsauŋ disgusting, horrible
wor	west
yai	jewel
yak	such, so, to that extent Yak ŋor da:wi! The child is so tall!
ya:li	rose
yaŋ	nest
yaro	leaf
yatu	order (someone)
yatugu	captain (of a ship), lieutenant; manager
yatusim	an order [‘order-word’]
yauji	beetle Yaujina:n the Beetle God; the planet Vlerë
ye	river
yebi:	gold [‘river-bright’]
yebi:li	rich [‘having gold’]
yedu	think, feel (emotions) yedupe consider, be concerned with, ruminate yedenu remember
yedua	thought, thinking
yeni:	swamp, wetland [‘water-field’]
Yenine	first true Wede:i state, in the Xengi delta; later formed empire over Xengi valley [‘river hill’]
yeŋa	movement, motion
yeŋu	move
Yewor	city on upper Xengi (Axunašin Jiur) [‘west river’]
yok	two yokak pair, couple yoksa double
yokboak	subtraction
yokboi	count backwards, subtract [‘two-one’, compare boyok]
yokla:u	return, come back or again [‘two-come’]
yokno	second (in order)
yokriŋ	vinegar [‘double ferment’]
yokto	scissors, clippers (two blades attached together with a curving element) [‘double-knife’]
yomo	be open yomosa open
yomoka	opening, window
yona	language Wede:i yona the Wede:i language
yonagu	interpreter, translator [‘language person’]
yonu	speak, say
yonwen	voice [‘speak-tool’]
yoŋ	peas
yoru	dance, acrobatics
yorzi	dancing girl
yoźi	peel
yuma	head; boss, chief, sergeant
yur	bad, unpleasant yunyur very bad, awful
yurituri	misread [‘bad read’]
yurliu	disapprove, dislike [‘bad see’]
zai	lightning
zak	spoon
zaran	sour, bitter
zarangau	lemon, lime, orange, any citrus fruit [‘sour fruit’]
zau	sand zauuŋ sandy; blonde
za:uni	family; character, type za:unigu relative
za:unma	clan, group of families; class (of things) za:unmagu clansmen, remote relative
zawak	beach [‘sand’ + collective]
ze:ngea	knowledge
ze:nsaji	parable [‘teaching thing’]
ze:nu	know ze:nsa teach ze:nta wonder, ask ze:nyai learn, find out, study ze:nyaigu student
ze:nsagu	teacher
zimi	woman zimisir unmarried (man)
zimisin	private quarters, bedroom; harem [‘woman-rooms’]
zel	turtle
ze:ŋgeŋ	plague
zitu	cross
zituka	sash
zoko	altar
zotu	belong, pertain (to) zotusa apply (to)
zu	meat
zu:ru	get, take zu:rtau ‘want-take’, i.e. desire, want; love (sexually) ŋa:ili zu:ru obtain, get in hand zunzu:ru grab, snatch
zusu	buzz; fly about getting in the way; annoy, bother [imitative]
źaik	yellow
Źaikye	the Čiqay river [‘yellow river’ (from its color)]
źaiji	bee
źaijiyaŋ	hive; wax
źailu:	honey [‘bee water’] źailu:li sweet
źal	flat, level; plain
źalka	table; a meal, supper
źalkiśa	tablet, board; dish, plate
źa:u	plow (n)
źe:	wheel
źeba	hawk, falcon
źeku	fall źeksa drop
źegu	lust after, envy źegusir content, free of (illicit) desires
źenu	go; proceed, do things źensau lead, send (people), drive (animals) źenyai start, begin Ŋauśa źeniŋju? What can I do?
źensagu	leader [‘lead-person’]
źe:reŋ	name of a previous cosmological cycle (X. Čerengri)
źerźenu	wander, roam; be free
źe:ti	laugh źe:tisa amuse, entertain
źe:tur	laughter
źi:u	grow
źi:a:i	garden [‘growing place’]
źili	stir
źinźi:u	thrive, shoot up [intensive of ‘grow’]
źoku	smell, be fragrant źokśi smell (something)
źomu	oppose, resist
źongu	rival, opponent
źonźoku	stink, be malodorous
źorźomu	resist at every turn, oppose furiously
źosa	hut, shack
źue	broom
źuko	nose
źunu	suck, suckle źunsa give suck, nurse
źunwen	breast
źuŋ	bug, insect