Láadan Core Words
Core Words
| Láadan | English |
|---|---|
| a | love (for inanimates only); to love (inanimates only) |
| áana | sleep (see also: ina=to sleep) |
| an | to know (of people) |
| ana | food |
| aril | later, after (in time) |
| ash | star |
| babí | bird |
| bal | bread |
| ban | to give |
| beth | home |
| bre...ébre | if .. then |
| bróo | because |
| dal | thing |
| dala | plant, any growing thing |
| dale | object, any made thing |
| dan | language [dáan=word] |
| dazh | to be yielding, pliant, soft |
| den | help, to help |
| di | to speak, say, tell |
| dim | container |
| do | to be strong |
| e | or, either |
| ed | tool |
| éeya | sickness, disease, illness |
| el | to make |
| en | to understand |
| eril | earlier, before (in time) |
| éthe | to be clean (See also: háawithéthe, huhéthe, mudahéthe, onidahéthe, thóohéthe) |
| hal | work, to work |
| ham | to be present |
| hath | time |
| heb | down, the direction |
| héeya | fear, to fear, to be afraid |
| híya | to be small |
| hoth | place |
| i | and |
| ihe | before (in space), in front of [ihée=after] |
| ihée | after (in space), behind [ihe=before] |
| ili | water |
| izh | but |
| láad | to perceive [láa=perception] |
| lili | to be wet [lil=water] |
| liri | to be colored, to have color |
| lóolo | to be slow |
| menedebe | to be many [nedebe=to be few + me-=implies grater weight or size or importance] (never change form or add case marker) |
| mid | creature, any animal |
| mime | to ask |
| mina | to move |
| naya | to take care of |
| nede | one, (1) |
| néde | to want |
| nedebe | to be few, to be several [but not many] (never change form or add case marker) |
| nil | inside |
| nin | to cause, causal |
| o | around |
| obe | through |
| obée | during (I work during the night. -> Bíi hal le náaleya obée wa.) |
| oma | hand |
| onida | family |
| óoha | to be tired, weary |
| óol | moon |
| óowa | fire |
| osháana | to menstruate, menstrual |
| owa | to be warm, hot |
| ra | no, not (interjection) |
| rahadidad | never [ra=non- + hadidad=always] |
| raheb | up [ra=non- + heb=down] |
| rana | drink, beverage, to drink |
| ranil | outside, out [ra=non- + nil=inside] |
| rayil | above [ra=non- + yil=under] |
| ril | now |
| ro | weather |
| rosh | sun |
| rul | cat |
| sha | harmony, to be in harmony |
| sháad | to come, to go (differentiated by the 'source' or 'goal' marker on the following noun) |
| shim | to "sexual act", engage in sex, copulation (abstract and completely neutral term) |
| shub | to do |
| thal | to be good, fine, satisfactory |
| thi | to have |
| thili | fish |
| thosh | sky |
| ud | stone |
| úuya | to hurt, feel pain |
| weth | road, way, path, track |
| wida | to carry |
| wihi | emotion |
| wíi | to be alive, living [wi=life] |
| with | person, woman; to specify a male person, add the masculine suffix '-id' |
| wóoban | to give birth, to bear |
| yada | thirst, to be thirsty, thirsting |
| yil | to be under, below |
| yod | to eat |
| yom | safe, secure |
| yu | fruit |
| zhe | to be like, as, similar |
| zho | sound (audible) |
| zhub | insect |
Core Supplement Words
| Láadan | English |
| áya | to be beautiful |
| bad | mineral |
| balin | to be old |
| bo | mountain |
| dom | to remember |
| doni | ground, dirt, earth, soil |
| ede | grain |
| esh | boat |
| hesh | grass |
| id | and-then |
| lom | song |
| lub | poultry, fowl (chicken, duck, goose) |
| máa | egg |
| mi | leaf, as in leaf of a tree, not a page in a book |
| muda | pig |
| nu | here |
| oba | body |
| ona | face (the body part) |
| sheb | change, to change |
| shum | air |
| thom | pillow |
| thul | parent |
| wili | river, creek [ili=water] |
| yob | coffee |
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