playground:dictionary
Table of Contents
Emotional
For words that can be used to describe one's feelings.
| Language | English | Class |
|---|---|---|
| ashee | pleasant | adjective |
| dejes̈ | fear; terror; horror; dread; intense concern for one's safety | noun |
| dejes̈es | to feel grave unease; to fear; to dread; to worry about safety intensely and personally | verb |
| harat | despair; emotional struggle; frantic mood | noun |
| harik | desperate; desolate; frantic | adjective |
| hares | to despair; to struggle emotionally; to see no options | verb |
| jehnis | to protest; to howl; to whine (legitimately); to grieve | verb |
| jehen | expression of helpless outrage; protest; deep grief | noun |
| lios | to desire (physiological or social-emotional connotation) | verb |
| li | desire (physiological or social-emotional connotation) | noun |
| mataj | humour | noun |
| prehethem | item of spiritual or magical significance i.e. none, objectively speaking, but an item one feels emotional attachment to | noun |
| lucky charm; talisman; enchanted pendant (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| sarijo | regretful for an action; being sorry | adjective |
| sarijos | to apologise; to express regret | verb |
| expression of sorrow, regret; sorry | interjection | |
| s̈elt | wish; desire (dream connotation); dream (conscious connotation) | noun |
| s̈eltus | to desire; to wish or ask for; to dream of | verb |
| yai | precious; dear; appreciated usually applied to sentient creatures only; never pertains to lifeless objects | adjective |
| ysik | hope | noun |
Social
For words that can be used to describe how people relate to each other.
Todo: Maybe split into “positive” and “negative”?
| Language | English | Class |
|---|---|---|
| baru | sibling (spiritual) | noun |
| dravas | to restrain; to hold; to possess (pertains to both objects and people) | verb |
| dravem | holder; master; owner (pertains to both objects and people; connotation of one who exerts minimal force to maintain his possession, of non-consent when pertaining to people) | noun |
| etaca | hostile action against someone; attack | verb |
| etacas | to make a hostile move; to attack; to aggress against; to subvert; to maliciously disassemble or deconstruct | verb |
| gades̈ | pupil; protégé; sapient creature still under the protection of others 'parent' word of kavamaa and ysash. | noun |
| hakas | to exert or have control over (social connotation, not territorial connotation) | verb |
| hakas̈ | control; ability to command (social connotation, not territorial connotation) | noun |
| heras̈ | fake; deceptive; of mistaken attributes | adjective |
| heras | to deceive; to lead astray; to lie to; to distract with dishonest claims; to fake | verb |
| herij | fraud; deception; lie | noun |
| hes̈i | struggle; fight; battle | noun |
| hes̈ias | to be in struggle with; to fight; to battle; to antagonise and be antagonised | verb |
| hes̈em | defender; protector; guardian (physical connotation); fighter; warrior (positive connotation) | noun |
| ita | friend (acquaintance connotation) | noun |
| jenenis | to demand; to expect something of another; to express entitlement to something | verb |
| jenen | an expression of entitlement; demand | noun |
| kary | ally (rational relationship connotation) | noun |
| karyes | to ally (rational relationship connotation) | verb |
| kavamaa | sapient creature still under the protection of others of its species (if applicable), but capable of abstract communication | noun |
| hatchling capable of speech (on Nekenalos) | ||
| kenda | communicative signature | noun |
| voice (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| kerr | trust | noun |
| leksis | to force; to compel; to coerce | verb |
| lekesh | sway; power; force (social connotation) | noun |
| lios | to desire (physiological or social-emotional connotation) | verb |
| li | desire (physiological or social-emotional connotation) | noun |
| manas | to lead toward enlightenment; to guide (intellectual connotation) | verb |
| manem | guide; mentor; guardian (intellectual connotation) | noun |
| mneg | tribute; homage | noun |
| mynateh | exceptional individual; hero | noun |
| os̈as | to hurt; to bring pain; to wound; to torture | verb |
| pheres | to fell a decision; to decide; to express an firm opinion | verb |
| pher | decision; opinion; prejudice (with the negative connotation) | noun |
| prenes̈ | freedom; liberty | noun |
| prenes̈as | to free; to liberate; to break out of | verb |
| prenysh | free; unbound; under no obligation or coercion | adjective |
| sarijo | regretful for an action; being sorry | adjective |
| sarijos | to apologise; to express regret | verb |
| expression of sorrow, regret; sorry | interjection | |
| seira | friend (loyalty connotation) ei is a digraph here | noun |
| seru | follower (both devotion connotation and tracking connotation) | noun |
| serues | to follow; to track; to trace; to mimic; to be inspired by | verb |
| sras̈ | plea; submissive enquiry or request | noun |
| sun | ruin (social connotation) | noun |
| sunas | to abruptly lose influence; to fall (social connotation) | verb |
| sunys | to dethrone; to ruin (social connotation) | verb |
| syees | to threaten (defensively); to express a warning not to approach; to hiss; to bristle; to viciously demand personal space | verb |
| sye | a threat (defensive); a warning | noun |
| teda | aid; support; help | noun |
| tedas | to help; to support | verb |
| verhen | group of individuals sharing unusual spiritual or intellectual interests; order; coven | noun |
| yai | precious; dear; appreciated usually applied to sentient creatures only; never pertains to lifeless objects | adjective |
| ynas̈ | artificial behaviour of something that is not understood | noun |
| enchantment (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| ynas | to imbue with mysterious behaviour; to enchant; to charm; to bewitch | verb |
Common conversation
For the sorts of words you learn on your first day of a foreign language class.
(Probably incomplete)
| Language | English | Class |
|---|---|---|
| doras̈ | a greeting / hail, like 'hello' | interjection |
| et | to | particle |
| nar | if | conjunction |
| ria | no | particle, interjection, noun |
| rua | yes | particle, interjection, noun |
| sarijos | expression of sorrow, regret; sorry | interjection |
Space and Time
For words describing relative or absolute location or having to do with the passage of time.
(Todo)
Biological?
For words describing aspects of living things.
(Todo?)
Leftovers
For words that I haven't figured out how to fit into nice categories yet. 
Sorry.
| Language | English | Class |
|---|---|---|
| adaryr | a deeply unpleasant but only vaguely remembered experience | noun |
| nightmare (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| aderr | time of hardship borne of scarce resources | noun |
| drought (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun | |
| adreth | death (negative connotation) | noun |
| adrethas | to die (negative connotation) | verb |
| aiit | option | noun |
| ashee | pleasant | adjective |
| atheon | a lack of illumination; darkness | noun |
| atheones | to dim; to extinguish a light; to darken | verb |
| azhar | armour; protective covering | noun |
| azhares | to clad or encase in armour | verb |
| baca | large span of time; era; eon | noun |
| banun | single point of failure in a living creature; heart | noun |
| bata | within; inside (spatial connotation) | adjective, adverb, noun (not preposition!) |
| batas | to enter; to step inside; to pierce into non-destructively | verb |
| dagadag | rhythmic repetition; pulse (onomatopoeic) | noun |
| dasiu | purposeful; intentional; deliberate | adjective |
| dema | dilemma | noun |
| dezys̈ | evasion; dodge; escape | noun |
| dezys | to evade; to dodge; to escape | verb |
| diev | value; worth (both material and immaterial) | noun |
| dravas | to restrain; to hold; to possess (pertains to both objects and people) | verb |
| dravem | holder; master; owner (pertains to both objects and people; connotation of one who exerts minimal force to maintain his possession, of non-consent when pertaining to people) | noun |
| egar | small, sharp weapon; dagger; knife (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun |
| egeth | water (chemical connotation); H2O | noun |
| ehif | forward | adjective, adverb (not verb or noun!) |
| ehifas | to advance; to move forward; to follow a designated path forward | verb |
| equaaj | life-sustaining liquid; water (contrast: egeth) | noun |
| evenar | grace | noun |
| ganirr | imagination; creative ability or prowess | noun |
| ganirrys | to imagine; to design creatively | verb |
| garu | motion | noun |
| girr | something in circular arrangement; ring | noun |
| harras | to hide; to seek to make oneself scarce; to attempt to evade detection; to conceal one's presence | verb |
| heril | fate; destiny | noun |
| herilis | to be subject to one's fate; to deserve | verb |
| iktem | fish | noun |
| iktis | to fish (not metaphorically) | verb |
| jaro | truth; fact | noun |
| jemosh | a strike; a hit; an intentional, precise impact | noun |
| jemos | to strike; to hit; to deliberately and precisely collide with | verb |
| jeneth | a device that separates with precision | noun |
| a blade (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| a sword (cultures that have them) | ||
| ji | yet (meanings of relative time, not meaning of degree) | adverb (not conjunction!) |
| jirris | to sweep through invisibly, to be seized by a hunch | verb |
| to blow or rustle (both as in wind) (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| kaana | malicious; evil; vindictive; vicious | adjective |
| kaar | cursed; wretched; outcast | adjective |
| kahirr | item displaying macroscopic, statistical randomness in discrete steps | noun |
| dice (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| kainis | to passively follow gravity's beckon; to fall; to drop ai is a digraph here | verb |
| kal | male (non-Threadwielder) | noun |
| karon | time | noun |
| kas̈ | slumber; sleep; doze; nap (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun |
| katale | incandescently oxidised substance; ash | noun |
| kavkem | sapient raptorian from Nekenalos (only on and around Nekenalos) | noun |
| kavamaa | sapient creature still under the protection of others of its species (if applicable), but capable of abstract communication | noun |
| hatchling capable of speech (on Nekenalos) | ||
| kazyee also: kazy, ky | fire; incandescence | noun |
| kazys | to glow; to illuminate | verb |
| kazeqen | Zalaagra's sapient species (Threadwielder only) | noun |
| kejatas | to move across a landmark; to cross; to encounter | verb |
| kejat | encounter; chance meeting | noun |
| kejoro | failure | noun |
| kejoras | to fail | verb |
| kenda | communicative signature | noun |
| voice (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| kerr | trust | noun |
| kinaya | close (spatially); narrowly-missed | adjective |
| khalei | crazy | adjective |
| kraia | splintered; broken | adjective |
| kseth | wicked; cunning; unpleasant personality | adjective |
| kull | foreign creature; alien | noun |
| lonnas | to perceive sound; to hear (raw perception connotation, not understanding connotation) | verb |
| los̈a | planet; planetoid; moon (Threadwielder culture only) | noun |
| losa | planet (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun |
| lur | there | noun, adverb |
| madjan | reward | noun |
| matas | to conceal; to cover | verb |
| mat | an object to hide beneath or behind; shield; cover | noun |
| mesi | ignorance; deliberate blindness | noun |
| mesies | to ignore; to pay no heed to; to pretend evidence does not exist | verb |
| mneg | tribute; homage | noun |
| mynateh | exceptional individual; hero | noun |
| mytos | to forget | verb |
| nagiji | place (physical); area | noun |
| nala | fertile ground; earth | noun |
| naki | dimension (geometry / mathematics) | noun |
| nateh | deity (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun |
| ned | here | noun, adverb |
| nigi | home; territory (positive connotation); possessed shelter | noun |
| nuna | identical; same | adjective |
| nyaqen | nekenalosan sapient species, both kavkema and Nayabaru (Threadwielder only) | noun |
| os̈ | pain; agony; nausea | noun |
| os̈as | to hurt; to bring pain; to wound; to torture | verb |
| palanis | to assign an attribute to; to designate | verb |
| phazyee | source of scalding heat; flame | noun |
| phazys | to scorch; to burn; to scald | verb |
| preeth | collection of personal notes; journal; diary | noun |
| q'anu | life (positive connotation) | noun |
| q'eta | so | interjection, conjunction (not adverb!) |
| q'uru | random; unpredictable; out of expected sequence | adjective |
| raktat | sacred (culturally, not spiritually) | adjective |
| ryrha | a vaguely remembered experience | noun |
| dream (neutral connotation) 'parent' word of adaryr and za'alyr. |
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| saar | female (non-Threadwielder) | noun |
| sayem | writer; author; poet; keeper of the minutes; recorder; transcriber | noun |
| sazo | any | determiner, pronoun (not adverb!) |
| sazosri | anything | pronoun |
| sehra | fantastic; wonderful; valuable; golden (metaphorical) | adjective |
| senesem | normal; predictable; of regular, unoffensive occurrence | adjective |
| sessat | the act of coming apart abruptly and hazardously; a sudden hail of shards; explosion | noun |
| sessatas | to come apart abruptly and hazardously; to explode; to shatter; to splinter | verb |
| shari | supernatural entity (non-Threadwielder cultures) | noun |
| soquust | health | noun |
| skaar | discovery | noun |
| skaaras | to find; to discover; to uncover | verb |
| szamha | security; safety; protection | noun |
| taleq | end; boundary 'parent' word of taq. | noun |
| taleqas | to bring and end to; to conclude; to end | verb |
| tara | form; distinctive shape; nature | noun |
| taq | destination | noun |
| temi | warm; tepid | adjective |
| temra | warmth (physical connotation) | noun |
| temor | temperature | noun |
| tkanala | an afterlife of suffering; hell (kavkem culture) often used metaphorically | noun |
| torem | violent enemy; fighter; warrior (negative connotation) | noun |
| ut | death (positive or neutral connotation) | noun |
| vahr | section of space-time; world 'parent' word of losa, nagiji and nigi. | noun |
| valcee | strength | noun |
| vale | parent; father or mother in species with sexual dimorphism | noun |
| vanna | easy; trivial; effortless | adjective |
| vedeth | thought | noun |
| venat | a pattern in a superclusters | noun |
| the sky (non-Threadwielder cultures) defined by its night-time texture, despite its invisibility during the day |
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| viya | of peaceful air; of pleasant personality; kind; nice | adjective |
| yilun | future | noun |
| yirh | powerful protector spirit | noun |
| immortal flying creature with mythological properties; phoenix (various cultures) | ||
| angel (equivalent in Earth culture, albeit not used there) | ||
| ysakel | boy; young male individual (where the sex exists) | noun |
| ysasaar | girl; young female individual (where the sex exists) | noun |
| ysash | sapient creature, too young for abstract communication | noun |
| hatchling not yet capable of speech (on Nekenalos) | ||
| yra | energy (physical or physiological connotation) | noun |
| yrys | to imbue with energy; to grant strength; to give temporary power | verb |
| yria | life (negative connotation) e.g. life of slavery or suffering | noun |
| za'alyr | a very pleasant but only vaguely remembered experience | noun |
| dream (positive connotation) (non-Threadwielder cultures) | ||
| zal | beautiful (physical connotation) | adjective |
| zalaar | beauty (spiritual connotation) | noun |
| zet | almost | adverb |
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