Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| -(ë)k• | the side which is __ |
| -a• | generic verbalizing suffix |
| -al• | on |
| -atxā• | augmentative suffix |
| -ion• | diminutive suffix |
| -izī• | make something like X; similative suffix |
| -ka• | through, after |
| -ā• | about |
| -ē• | by means of, using, instrumental |
| -ī• | into |
| =(h)igī• | nominalizing clitic |
| =go• | while, since, as |
| =lā• | topic clitic |
| =ne• | interrogative enclitic marking yes/no questions |
| =tte• | quotative clitic |
| =tēn• | from, ablative enclitic |
| =ō• | vocative enclitic |
| a• | of, genitive particle |
| abini• | morning |
| adin• | there is not; negative existential |
| adrè• | side of a mountain that is sunnier or on the more lush side of the rainshadow, better for agriculture; by extension: the East Mountains |
| ae• | motion upward and potentially in a back-and-forth fashion |
| afroŧi• | Venus |
| aiuta• | help |
| aiō• | very, completely, totally |
| akrië• | sour |
| aku• | motion away from the speaker |
| akuote• | correct, right |
| akès• | reptile |
| ala• | no |
| alaza• | hunt, try |
| alezi• | go ahead, procede |
| amprië• | serious |
| ante• | change, be different |
| anu• | we, first person plural |
| apei• | shame, guilt; (adj) ashamed, guilty |
| aso• | viriditas, vital force, jing; photosynthesis; kidneys (when possessed) |
| assān• | woman |
| ate• | y'all, second person plural |
| atsō'• | tongue |
| auen• | continuous aspect marker |
| avīv• | spring |
| axīh• | salt |
| azē• | medicine, medicinal herbs and substances, healing |
| ał-• | each other, reciprocal prefix |
| ałkē• | in a row after each other, consecutive, in a sequences |
| ałtsuo• | finished, completed |
| aō• | yes |
| bibiŧ• | bug |
| binałē• | lots, scads, tons (of ___); (n) audience |
| bloè• | blueberry |
| boske• | forest, woods |
| bēi• | cup, can; open container |
| da• | framing particle, marks the boundary of another particle which encloses a phrase |
| deleŧ• | door |
| di'āh• | put (general); put a solid round object; general verb for the movement of a celestial object |
| di'āhigī• | transits (astrology) |
| di-• | start or begin, indicating beginnings and changes of state, inchoative prefix |
| diaso• | sprouting (plants), burgeoning; wake up and get started with the day |
| dida iho• | sit down (from standing) |
| digai• | clean up, clear out/off |
| dikāŧ iho• | divine using tarot/cartomancy; lay out, fan out, spread (something) out flat in front of (someone) |
| dikāŧ ëia• | play cards or board games |
| diminaxē• | relocate, move as in to move house, pick up and move, move away |
| disdui• | hot (the weather is hot); getting hot (outside) |
| diskutsi• | talk about (something specific), discuss, debate |
| diskāz• | cold (the weather is cold); getting cold (outside) |
| ditxī• | become inflamed, to have an excess of blood/qi, be overheated; (n: ditxīgī) inflammation |
| ditīn iho• | lay down; go to sleep, go to bed; (without iho) pass away |
| dizin ae• | stand up, get up from sitting down |
| diłkan• | cook, bake; prepare food |
| diłtxī• | grill, saute; cook on a hot surface |
| dom• | house, building |
| doma• | build |
| domion• | room |
| dëman• | question |
| dība• | start getting dark; twilight to fall |
| dītso• | get a tan |
| dō• | negative particle which marks the beginning of a negative phrase |
| e• | he, she, it, they, proximate third person singular; proximate particle |
| emba• | below, under |
| esun• | trade, exchange, market, commerce |
| faeŧon• | Jupiter |
| fenèŧ• | window |
| fix• | perfective aspect marker |
| fiŧīniv• | fall, autumn |
| flèv• | river, a large one that flows into the ocean |
| flūi• | flock, move together as a herd |
| fè• | make, produce |
| fèfèi• | product |
| fīlion• | friend |
| gai• | silver |
| gau• | fat, grease, oil, paste, powder |
| gramatsik• | grammar |
| gën• | slender stiff object |
| ha• | areal pronoun |
| hani• | narrate, tell a story |
| hastīn• | man |
| hilāl• | crescent moon, moonlight |
| holon• | locative verb, exists, there is; to have (with im) |
| homoku'igī• | restaurant, any place where food is served |
| horah• | hour |
| hoxōn• | be happy, fortunate, auspicious |
| huox• | sleep |
| hā=• | far way, very long; distal prefix (?) |
| hākalam aku• | shout, yell, call out |
| hōriv• | winter |
| hōtso• | meadow, grassy field not used for cultivation |
| iama• | call, summon |
| iba• | shadow, twilight |
| ibak• | side of a mountain that is shadier or in the rainshadow, less suitable for agriculture; by extension: the Albuquerque side of the Sandías |
| iho• | down(ward), next |
| ike• | bad |
| ikizi• | settle down, make somewhere your home |
| ikos• | home, household |
| ilo• | tool, instrument, device |
| im• | with |
| imēras• | day |
| imīm• | together |
| insa• | inside; guts, organs |
| inīye• | for the purpose of, for that reason, in order to |
| iseki• | flower |
| itlanīn• | astrologer |
| itso• | gold; glitter |
| ił-• | causative prefix |
| iłbās• | make roll (somewhere); drive (a vehicle on wheels) |
| iłkan• | sweeten |
| iłxōŧ• | (someone) slides/pushes something bulky (somewhere) |
| iłēl• | sail, make something float |
| jāh• | handle plural, nonseparable objects (such a handful of seeds or rice) |
| jōł• | handle non-compact matter (such as a blanket) |
| ka | definite singular subject |
| ka-xem• | God |
| kafe• | coffee; brown |
| kalam• | make a sound, noise; speak (a spoken language) |
| kalas• | fish |
| kam(ë-)• | become; prefix indicating change of state |
| kan• | sugar, sweetener |
| kaniaŧ• | valley with a river running through it; a glen, gully, or ravine |
| kaniōn• | canyon, a very large valley cut through by a river that runs year-round |
| kansaŧa• | be tired |
| kanłitxī• | get (sun)burnt (skin) |
| kasis• | plant |
| ke | definite singular proximate |
| kedem• | ancient times |
| keiah• | land, country |
| ken• | can |
| kerīda• | lover, specifically female lover |
| kerīŧ• | lovely, valuable, expensive, dear |
| kin• | too, also, as well |
| kion• | dog |
| kipizi• | divide, split, cut; (n) segment, section, part, piece |
| kohe• | collect, gather things up |
| kol• | voice |
| kom• | how |
| kouāh• | power, strength, confidence |
| kuaŧ• | short |
| kulè• | color, paint, pigment, spectrum; (adj) colorful |
| kuri• | run |
| kute• | hear, ear |
| kuā(kē)• | what do |
| këŧ• | now |
| kāh• | handle an open container |
| kē• | general interrogative |
| kēdi• | where |
| kēros• | weather; time period, era, season |
| kīkī• | sharp, pointy; (n kīkīgī) corner |
| kīlī• | fruit, vegetable, nut |
| kō• | to, dative particle |
| kōn• | here |
| kū• | who |
| kūie• | general relativizing particle |
| lagunas• | lake, not a huge one |
| lai• | motion towards the speaker |
| lampan• | get, receive |
| lauāh• | head, mind; by extension: leader, governer, ruler |
| le• | handle a slender, flexible object (such as a rope) |
| lehos• | far |
| len• | cloth(ing), fabric, coverings, privacy, hide |
| lete• | ice |
| liniah• | line |
| linlu'ī• | network, internet, virtual, web, connect |
| loi• | slender flexible object |
| lom• | hill, more elongated and part of an overall hilly/mountainous landscape |
| luk• | look |
| lupāh• | hole, window, pit |
| lèko• | block, cube, brick, square, step (stairs) |
| lèn• | long |
| lī • | copula particle |
| līv• | leaf, page, flat, sheet-like object that is flexible and/or has writing on it; by extension: empty containers and bags that aren't heavy; flat flexible object |
| m=• | prefix indicating: typical, usual, easy |
| ma'adim• | Mars |
| ma'ī• | coyote |
| maringuin• | mosquito |
| mefaze• | spread out, disperse, contagious |
| mezo• | middle, average |
| mitah• | bed |
| moku• | eat |
| molaŧ• | birth(day); (adj) new, young |
| montsi• | behind; back, ass |
| muiye• | wet |
| muori• | die |
| muosi• | cat |
| muzi• | have fun, play, entertain |
| mè• | but |
| mès• | month |
| mā• | ground, soil, dirt |
| mēnē• | Moon |
| na-• | all over, around here and there; atelic circuital prefix |
| nabās• | rolling along (of its own accord, not clearly causative) |
| nadminaxē• | traffic, throngs of people |
| nadtxī• | be embarrassed; (n nadtxīgī) embarrassment |
| nahassān• | earth, the world |
| nahōkuos• | north, Ursa Major, Big Dipper |
| najim• | the stars, taken as a collective |
| namako• | spice, embellishment; (v) zhush |
| nampë• | number |
| naris• | nose |
| nasda• | have a meeting of people sitting together in a large group |
| nasin• | way, road, custom, style |
| nasë• | strange, weird; intoxicating |
| natxu• | cross(roads), knots, intersect(ion), overlap |
| nazbas• | be round; be in a circle/circled up |
| naŧ-• | none (correlative series) |
| nefex• | being, creature, living thing, person of any species; organism |
| ni• | you, second person singular |
| nihtas• | night |
| nilan• | extending, flowing in a line, in rows |
| nimaz• | be round |
| nisin• | want |
| nitliz• | hard goods, jewelry, precious stones; by extension: money |
| nitsekēs• | think; think about sth (with locative) |
| nixoni• | be beautiful, nice, clean |
| niłda iho• | make (somebody/something) sit down |
| niłkāŧ iho• | make (somebody/something) spread (something) out flat |
| niłkāŧigī• | cartomancer, tarot reader |
| niłtin iho• | make (somebody) lay down; put (somebody) to sleep/to bed |
| niłzin ae• | make (someone/something) stand up |
| nok• | foot |
| nuxan• | we (trial), we three, the three of us |
| nuŧu• | we (dual), we two |
| nā | definite plural subject |
| nādān• | corn |
| nāltsōs• | book, document, single sheet of paper (or bound collection of papers) |
| nāxtxān• | painting, drawing, design; art |
| nē | definite plural proximate |
| nī• | this, that; general determiner; also forms a correlative series |
| nīł• | handle plural, seperable objects (such as a few eggs or some coins) |
| o• | he, she, it, they, obviate third person singular; obviate particle |
| o-• | terminative, momentaneous, indicates the verb is directed towards some specific place/goal or that it happens exactly once |
| oho• | natural spring |
| oko• | eye |
| olin• | heart, (v) love |
| open• | begin, start, open; light verb marking the inchoative |
| ołta• | read (something specific), count, go to school |
| p=• | prefix indicating: firmly, with effort and focus |
| pakala• | destroy, ruin, break; (adj) wrong |
| pake• | prevent, stop, block, lock, close |
| palīs• | slender, stiff object, stick, pole |
| pana• | emit, exude, put out |
| pau• | iterative marker, sharp strike of something (??) |
| paīs• | country, rural, countryside |
| pikatxo• | a hill or mountain that rises to an abrupt summit or peak |
| pilēntu• | Pilēntu language |
| platsika• | chat, talk about many different things |
| po• | four |
| poka• | beside, next to; hip |
| polis• | city, community |
| pona• | good |
| popezion• | table |
| poue• | lie, deceive; (adj) fake |
| prōsimë• | near |
| puvigī• | cloud |
| puvë• | fluffy, soft, squishy |
| pān• | bread, cake, cookie |
| pēh• | mouth; (v) to handle with the mouth |
| pēpa• | paper |
| pī• | and, besides, that too, in addition; moreover, furthermore; used to emphasize an additional point |
| pū• | for |
| pūkē• | why |
| reiah• | smell |
| rekresa• | return, go back, come back |
| riŧ• | creek, a tributary of a larger river |
| rēn• | rain |
| s(i)-• | positional prefix; when added to handling verb it conveys “___ object to be located” |
| sama• | be the same |
| san• | three |
| sana• | be healthy |
| savo• | toad |
| seli• | fire, (v +redup) to heat something |
| selo• | outer layer, skin, bark, peel, boundary |
| sen• | load, pack, burden |
| senti• | touch, feel |
| seros• | hill or mountain with a rounded peak, rather than an abrupt one, usually rising somewhat singularly in landscape |
| seui• | above, top; heaven, divine |
| si'āh | be located; generic positional verb |
| sida• | sit, wait, be at home |
| sikāŧ• | spread out flat, is in position (a spreading object as a brush, vegetation, fog, a blanket, a sheet of ice or a body of water) |
| sintsia• | sparkle, glitter, glimmer, shine; by extension: famous, well-known |
| sitīn• | lying down (a person), be sleeping, passed out, knocked out |
| sizin• | stand |
| siłtele• | write; script, writing system |
| skīlas• | puppy |
| smo• | a very small amount of something, something very tiny or thin |
| soko• | mushroom, fungus |
| sol• | Sun as the center of the solar system, Sun in astrology |
| sona• | know |
| sosona• | understand as a conjunction |
| souelī• | mammal |
| stilbōn• | Mercury |
| sulī• | big, large, tall |
| supa• | horizontal surfaces that you rest things on, table, most other furniture |
| suxë• | dirty |
| sètx• | dry |
| sāiv• | summer |
| sī• | see |
| sōmaŧ• | body as a holistic unit |
| ta• | read generally and for pleasure |
| tah• | among, throughout |
| taua• | go, move; (n) movement |
| te• | and, general conjunction linking two ideas |
| tlaki• | attach, attract, bond; (n) glue, magnet |
| tlatsiuił• | turquoise |
| tloh• | grass |
| tlēh• | handle mushy matter (such as a handful of mud) |
| tlīx• | snake |
| tontxi• | trans |
| travai• | work |
| tse• | stone |
| tsił• | mountain, especially one that is magnificent and stately |
| tsiŧ• | small |
| tsu• | a few medium-to-large things; plural separable objects |
| tsēs• | day of the week |
| tsōs• | handle a flat, flexible object (like a piece of paper) |
| tu• | two |
| tudiłte• | two people move; by extension: pairs of things move |
| tuo• | water |
| tusda• | have a meeting between to people; two people sitting together |
| tut-• | all (correlative series) |
| tuāh• | solid round object |
| txał• | frog |
| txidi• | vehicle of any kind, usually a car |
| txiŧa• | a wheeled vehicle moves |
| txon• | kind, type, sort, variety, class, category; classifier for all of those |
| txëmia• | front; face |
| txī• | gas, air, breath, smoke, scent, spirit, qi |
| txīa• | breathe |
| tèn-• | agentive prefix |
| tènjim• | astrology |
| tēh• | handle an animate thing (such as a child) |
| tīn• | handle a slender, stiff object (such as a pencil) |
| tō• | clouds, flowers, smoke, dust, wig, hay, fluffy; by extension: smells, spirits, meanings of things; non-compact matter |
| uazo• | bird |
| uenā• | all over |
| unī• | group up together, gather people or other large things up; (n) a group |
| usauī• | do magic |
| utlala• | fight, compete, strugle, (be in) conflict |
| utsiliz• | use |
| uèl• | happen; mirative particle |
| valeia• | be important, be about sth; (n) context, topic, circumstances |
| vek• | remove, get rid of, put away; (adj) absent, distant |
| vī• | freeze |
| vīki• | move or happen quickly |
| xabaŧ• | Shabbat, Saturday |
| xabtai• | Saturn |
| xadi'āh• | south, noon |
| xah• | sun, sunlight, the solar disk |
| xanaŧ• | year |
| xauih• | racoon |
| xaxin• | maybe, probably, perhaps |
| xe=• | relativizing clitic used to attach attributive verbs to nouns inside of noun phrases |
| xem• | name |
| xem-sintie• | NAME+SPARKLE |
| xenigas• | swamp, especially the spongy freshwater swamps of New Mexico |
| xeras• | mountains, as in a group of related peaks taken altogether (such as the Sandías) |
| xi• | I, first person singular |
| ximāl• | left hand; by extension: the left side |
| xou• | a handful (of something); small objects usually moved around by the handful: rice, seeds, marbles; plural separable objects |
| xānte• | (the) people |
| xōŧ• | bulky item sliding |
| yamīn• | right hand; by extension: the right side of something |
| yan• | person, human; animate object |
| yano• | plain, steppe; flat, even |
| yasimi• | mirror |
| yati• | talk, communicate in any modality |
| yaŧ• | hand; by extension: five |
| yenë• | full |
| yikei• | family, relatives, kinfolk |
| yo• | have |
| yodi• | "soft goods" such as buckskins, clothing, and blankets; by extension: valuable property |
| yume• | dream |
| yësima• | be opposite |
| yëxana• | old (object) |
| yēgo• | hard, difficult (semantic space of HARD) |
| yēh• | handle a load/pack/burden (such as a full backpack) |
| yī• | one |
| zefirāh• | west, Antares |
| zman• | time in general, as in the passage of time and events, time in terms of a clock |
| zmani kē• | when |
| zoion• | animal |
| zëkana• | old (person) |
| èn• | and |
| ëia• | motion back and forth |
| āh• | handle a solid, roundish object |
| ēl• | float, swim |
| ī• | in, at, on; locative particle |
| ī=• | intensifier with the connotation of excess or exertion |
| īyī• | lonely, alone |
| ł-• | prefix creating adjectival verbs related to inherent qualities such as colors and tastes |
| łaso• | blue-green |
| łiba• | gray |
| łigai• | white |
| łikan• | be sweet, delicious, tasty |
| łitso• | yellow |
| łitxī• | red |
| łixin• | black |
| ōr• | light |
| ŧ=• | poorly, carelessly, sloppily, inadequately |
| ŧa• | future tense marker |
| ŧei• | they, third personal plural |
| ŧeleg• | snowing |
| ŧuraiāh• | east, the Pleiades |
| ū-• | general intensifier |