Sinistral Glossary
Basic Phrases
eirokza - Hello (informal) (From Ancient Sinistral, a shortened version of "How does the sun shine [for you]?")
igařavái esu solái tei / tei esu solái igařavái - Hello (Formal) (Literally "Does the Sun shine (on) you?)
eiro - Positive response to a greeting, equivalent to "I've been good." in English
geidi - Negative response to a greeting, close in meaning to "Not doing well."
voltei - Goodbye (From Ancient Sinistral, coming from a phrase that meant "Let's meet again.")
volgei - Goodbye (rude) (Literally: Begone from my sight (A fused compound of Ancient Sinistral with the geidi, creating "Begone from my sight."))
kogão - Correct/Right/Affirmative (Sinistral lacks fixed "yes" and "no" words, but this can be used to answer quickly)
kogei - Different/Wrong/Incorrect (There's no "no" in Sinistral)
Base Nouns
These nouns are without adverbs and are indivisible.
ŝie - home
kio - water
řua - fire
řavo - sun
tohei - moon
rara - mother
daga - father
seisa - sister
voisa - brother
taif - paternal line of a family
vold - maternal line, literally implying foreign or other
vüna - food
joga - stone
sa or sado - language or dialect (no distinction between the two)
rado - person (any race)
ai - blood, can also refer to lineage
fireno - money
auřo - gold
aurge - silver
voeřo - male
feira - female
chido - boat (generally referring to those with junk rigs)
fuha - bread
kařu - meat
garuma - armor
jiřu - cutting tool
tavař - wall
diřen - group (of people)
třuja - merchant
mijot - rod/column
velřuza - metal
xa - a flow
tova - fool, idiot, simpleton, moron
chorva - beer
hage - distilled spirits
kafult - a distilled spirit made from honey, aged in honeyed barrels and possessing a complex flavor and golden color.
toki - wines that are made from a mix of noble rotted grapes and honey. Characteristically known for a sweet flavor with a tawny color and caramel flavor.
golga - non-noble rot wines.
verei - liberty, also the verb to liberate/free/release
moja - value
xarei - rights
tohei - reasoning/reason/logic
vada - switch
Positionals
Positional particles that describe something in space. These are not adverbs, nouns or adjectives in sinistral - these simply are a class of particle that
can prefix a noun, adverb, or adjective to change the meaning.
rovol - far
taixa - near
kajoi - north
danø/danu - south
iga - east
oha - west
Compound Nouns
Many nouns are compounds of nouns, verbs and adjectives in sinistral. All compounds begin with the noun being modified, and each is prefixed on in a logical order to make a coherent noun meaning.
eirado - human
ŝinorado - Sinistral (race)
ŝinosa - Sinistral (language)
geidara - double cousins (useless cousins)
taiga - grandfather (paternal)
taira - grandmother (paternal)
voltga - grandfather (maternal)
voltra - grandmother (maternal)
taida - paternal cousins
volra - maternal cousins
tirado - Lesser Elf
emerado - Greater Elf
airado - caste
zohafuha - flatbread
taixakio - river (large flowing water)
taigarumaŝie - castle (large armored home)
ŝivünajiřu - paring knife (small food knife)
jenghutavař - insulation/insulated wall (cold stop wall)
nøřuavelrhuzamijot - fire iron (hot fire metal rod)
firenorado - banker (money person)
třujadiřen – merchant guild (merchant group)
mojaimoja - equal (value no value)
Numbers
Numbers in Sinistral are unified under a singular system - the number one can mean both a quantity or the first in a list. The system is a base-12 system.
jaru - zero
ji - one
fuan/iji - two
tao - three
kor - four
ejat - five
wøf - six
vue - seven
rejo - eight
nano - nine
eiro - ten
taio - eleven
sei - twelve
rujei - sixty
eisei - one-hundred-twenty
rusei - six-hundred
wu - one-thousand-two-hundred
To form numbers greater than twelve, but less than sixty, the following form is used:
sei-ji - thirteen
fuan-sei - twenty-four
tao-sei - thirty-six
And so-on.