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Household items

  • selc = chair

Music

Instruments

  • sŋiv = string
  • sŋiv eeýnd = sympathetic string
  • ðavr = light, bright and versatile fiddle
  • ŋams = mellower, viola-range vertical fiddle
  • ŋamsóm = large, cello-range bowed string instrument
  • lazóv = trombone
  • sbuiþ = 8-stringed plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
  • jogóm = zither
  • atxagádal = pasta guitar
  • sewvore = isomorphic keyboard
  • fiwm = drum
  • teem = a reed instrument
  • txovích = fretless steel guitar
  • piáno = piano

Food

Cereals

  • haiŋ = bread
  • sŋyrm = cereal most commonly used for bread in Etalocin (itrin in Clofabosin)
  • jambr = porridge; congee

Fruit and vegetables

  • ymnaht = a fruit often ground into a pulp as a base for sauces or extracted for the oil which is high in saturated fat

Animal products

  • ŋoft = meat
  • bum = fish

Spices

  • srwataŋc = a spice used for teas and desserts
  • neŋgah = chili pepper (from Nurian lenkah)

Cooking

  • hawhl = thin soup
  • syŋgym = thick soup, stew, or curry
  • gwir = to bake
  • forngáþ = to boil
  • miw = (liquid) oil
  • u = (solid) fat

Family members

  • atnwr = father
  • iav = mother
  • sarv = brother
  • heðl = sister
  • coo = son
  • juh = daughter
  • sos = husband
  • chamn = wife

Body

Numbers

  • 0 = haŋits
  • 1 = cia
  • 2 = teþ
  • 3 = nee
  • 4 = dee
  • 5 = søl
  • 6 = sdaw
  • 7 = hrwi
  • 8 = hlwað
  • 9 = berv
  • 10 = war
  • 11 = ehi
  • 12 = cnai
  • 144 (12^2) = saiþ
  • 1728 (12^3) = hevy
  • 20736 (12^4) = wrón

Dates and time

Weekdays (morelar)

  • Saturday: Morel Sfiþ
  • Sunday: Morel Ahti
  • Monday: Morel Aloð
  • Tuesday: Morel Fricoð
  • Wednesday: Morel Sderciþ
  • Thursday: Morel Taroð
  • Friday: Morel Hlifr

The words yht (morning), hrwi (daytime) and vin (night) can also be used with these words: vin Sfiþ = Saturday night

Months (søømiar)

  • January: Tnoomon < Nón, a Talmic god + -on 'adjectivizer'
  • February: Anoti < Netagin ʔanâṭ 'incense' + -iyø "feminine adjectivizer"
  • March: Hlori < Proto-Clofabic loři 'middle/half'
  • April: Slysion < OEevo sleasaí, 'aroma' + -on 'adjectivizer'
  • May: Þatsŋúd < Netagin tacŋut "gardening"
  • June: Pleebar < Proto-Clofabic pδeg bwar 'most light'
  • July: Beesí < from bésaí, a Talmic "festival of horns"
  • August: Þobúh < Netagin tobúh 'time of storms'
  • September: Crifaht < Proto-Clofabic kriβ akti 'thank-day'
  • October: Glawm < older go lán '(the month) with seed'
  • November: Xadfí < Netagin śadăf "remembrance [of the dead]" + iyø "feminine adjectivizer"
  • December: Hlavw < Proto-Clofabic laga-wul "long night, winter solstice"

Dates

mm/dd/yyyy = "rree dd mm yyyy", "dd mm yyyy" or "dd-ar mm yyyy" e.g. 4th of July = a dee Beesí, a deevar Beesí or a hree dee Beesí

  • Taw a sbis hreem? = What is today's date?
  • ... a hreem. = Today is... [date]

Today

  • lidyþ = yesterday
  • hreem = today
  • cøŋ = tomorrow

Directions

Compass directions

  • sim = north
  • wig = south
  • hrosgr = east
  • gaws = west

Seasons

  • sarð = spring
  • hloht = summer
  • hrevð = autumn
  • bwriad = winter

Description

Colors (yxþar)

  • hloos = red
  • hraih = yellow
  • bys = green
  • fosd = blue
  • ew = white
  • flwv = black
  • ŋiwl = brown
  • slewv = grey
  • lenþ = purple
  • taltsín = orange

Idioms

Proverbs

Earth countries and people

Trician countries and people

  • Anøvr [ˈalœvr]: Anøvr
  • Atsiv: Adetsib
  • Beenooc: Benocia
  • Clofab [ˈkʰχɔfap]: Clofabolocin
  • Format: Phormatin
  • Nwria [lurja]: Nūrē
  • Smewla: Smewla
  • Vibimin: Wibermîn