mërèchi glossary

Notes about orthography:

The mërèchi love diacritics. The diacritics are mostly meaningless (they encode vowel pronunciation as well as stress, but stress is not usually important and vowel pronunciation is rarely other than standard). If you cannot read them, the interlinear is presented diacritic-free, and the vocabulary includes diacritic-free versions of all the words.

The apostrophe is written by convention to indicate where certain prefixes and suffixes have been attached to a word. It is not pronounced.

All the vowels in the text presented have the standard values:

	a, à	/A/
	e, è	/E/
	ë, é	/e/
	o, ò	/O/
	ö, ó	/o/
	i, í	/i/
	ü, ú	/u/

Additionally, y in some contexts (and ý always) is /i/.

Consonants also have IPA values except:

	c	/k/
	ch	/x/
	hl	/l_0/
	sh	/S/
	y	/j/ (except after t, when it is /i/)

Key to symbols/Glossary:

ACC (accusative)

-c			after vowels
-ic			after consonants

ADJ (adjectives)

dóvi (dovi)		cruel
kàlici (kalici)		sick
líacli (liacli)		old
níki (niki)		sharp
yiàlacli (yialacli)	youngest

ART (articles)

à (a)			definite article, singular
àn (an)			definite article, plural

CONJ (conjunctions)

të (te)			and

D.ADJ (derivational adjectivizers)

-i			-like, -ish; follows consonants
-ki			-like, -ish; follows vowels

D.N (derivational nominalizers)

-a			someone who/something which is X

FT (future tense)

k'-			before vowels
ki'-			before consonants

IMP (imperfective)

-ip, -ap		after consonants
-n			after liquids
-p			after vowels

MOOD (modals)

yt-			may it be (with optative infix)
-hl-			optative infix, goes after stressed vowel

N (nouns)

bóltëc (boltec)		a bird's claw, a fingernail, a talon
dèlchë (delche)		the ground, the earth
enèd (ened)		the Sun
füshín (fushin)		a mild, equinoctial season
  füshín ciliditàpi	Spring
kabàlë (kabale)		coldness
  lyín kabàlëki		Winter
khàdelü (khadelu)	a rock
làma (lama)		living things, plants, growing life
lúthi (luthi)		a flower
lyín (lyin)		a time
  lyín kabàlëki		Winter
nícnöm (nicnom)		a bird's beak
níllip (nillip)		a boy
ròg (rOg)		a wolf
talàfia (talafia)	one's footsteps, the path one has taken
tymàmr (tymamr)		a mother

NEG (negation)

ka-			not

NOM (nominalizers)

na-			that which, he/she/they who; one who does

PART (participles)

-api			active participle (after consonants)
-pi			active participle (after vowels)

PL (plural)

-an			after consonants
-n			after vowels

POSS (possessive)

-gë (-ge)

POST (postpositions)

-ash			on (takes accusative)
-ba			from
-mëa (-mea)		over
-nö (-no)		of

POT (potentiative)

-sa			be able to do X

PRON (pronouns; can be suffixed or standalone)

-da			second person, singular
-ë (-e)			third person, singular, male
-fa			first person, plural
-n			third person, singular, neuter or unknown
-r			third person, singular, female
-të (-te)		third person, plural

REL.PR (relative pronouns)

hró (hro)		for which reason, why
nà (na)			which
   nàcash		on which

SUB (subordinating conjunctions)

hródi (hrodi)		so that

V (verbs)

büraló (buralo)		to look down, to watch something below
cilidít (cilidit)	to rise
  füshín ciliditàpi	Spring
cilishír (cilishir)	to grow up, to spring up
cilitàla (cilitala)	to go bounding along (from tàla, to walk)
ésö (eso)		be (copula); subject & object both take nominative
shír (shir)		to grow
  shírsa (shirsa)	to be able to grow
pícü (picu)		to dance
víti (viti)		to take, to snatch
týpatatë (typatate)	pray (from tý, holy, and pàtatë, ask)