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)
Basic Nouns
Nouns that are indivisible/basic:Kinship and Home
rara – mother
daga – father
seisa – sister
voisa – brother
taif – paternal line of a family
vold – maternal line, literally implying foreign or other
ŝie - home
People
rado – person (any race)
diřen – group (of people)
voeřo – male
feira – female
Food
vüna – food
fuha – bread
kařu – meat
Tools and Materials
tavař – wall
eŝa - sword
mijot – rod/column
jiřu – cutting tool
velřuza – metal
garuma – armor
Nature
řua – fire
řavo – sun
tosu – moon
xa – a flow
Culture and Abstract Concepts
sa / sado – language or dialect (no distinction between the two)
ai – blood, can also refer to lineage
tohei – reasoning/reason/logic
moja – value
xarei – rights
verei – liberty; also verb: to liberate/free/release
Economics
fireno – money
auřo – gold
aurge – silver
třuja – merchant
Alcoholic Beverages
chorva – beer
hage – distilled spirits
kafult – honey-based aged spirit
toki – noble-rotted grape & honey wine
golga – non-noble rot wine
Technology
vada – switch
chido – boat (junk-rigged type)
Positionals
Positionals in Sinistral are a distinct class of particles used to modify nouns, adjectives, or adverbs to express spatial orientation or relative location.
They are not themselves nouns, adjectives, or adverbs, and do not inflect. Instead, they prefix a host word to alter its spatial meaning.
They typically form compound constructions and are used in a way analogous to demonstratives or directional prefixes in natural languages, but remain morphosyntactically distinct.
Placement: Positionals are always prefixes, never used in isolation.
Neutrality: These do not mark grammatical case or declension, and they do not alter the stress pattern unless the host word is monosyllabic.
rovol - far
taixa - near
kajoi - north
danø/danu - south
iga - east
oha - west
Compound Nouns
In Sinistral, compound nouns are formed by prefixing modifiers (nouns, verbs, or adjectives) to a basic, core noun. The head noun always comes last, and each prefix adds semantic nuance in a left-to-right logical order.
This agglutinative structure reflects conceptual layering, not grammatical case.
Ethnonyms and Languages
eirado - human
ŝinorado - Sinistral (race)
ŝinosa - Sinistral (language)
tirado - Lesser Elf
emerado - Greater Elf
airado - caste
Kinship
taiga - grandfather (paternal)
taira - grandmother (paternal)
voltga - grandfather (maternal)
voltra - grandmother (maternal)
taidara - paternal cousins
voldara - maternal cousins
geidara - double cousins (useless cousins)
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
Sinistral uses a duodecimal (base-12) numeral system. Each numeral root can refer both to cardinal (quantity) and ordinal (sequence) values, depending on context.
There is no morphological distinction between "one" and "first," for example.
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
Sinistral uses a multiplicative-additive system for compound numbers. That means numbers greater than twelve are formed by combining units of 12 (sei) with a remainder.
[multiplier of sei]-sei[-remainder] is the format used.
sei-ji - thirteen
sei-tao - fifteen
fuan-sei - twenty-four
tao-sei - thirty-six