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/
	u, ù	/U/
	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)

ësóli (esoli)			like
kàlici (kalici)			sick
kàliri (kaliri)			last, final
líacli (liacli)			old
líri (liri)			great, large

ADV (adverbs)

lítac (litac)			when

ART (articles)

à (a)				definite article, singular

CONJ (conjunctions)

të (te)				and

D.ADJ (derivational adjectivizers)

-ki				-like, -ish; follows vowels

D.N (derivational nominalizers)

-mia				-ness (shifts stress to preceding syllable)

GER (gerund, for lack of a better name)

pë--m (pe--m)			circumfixed to a verb X, means "the act of X'ing"

IMP (imperfective)

-p				after vowels

N (nouns)

bóltëc (boltec)			a claw
dëlachón (delachon)		a dragon
élat (elat)			a leaf
enèd (enEd)			the Sun
ganàki (ganaki)			a clawed lizard (Komodo dragon?)
kabàlë (kabale)			coldness
  lyín kabàlëki			Winter
lómi (lomi)			food
lyín (lyin)			a time, a season
  lyín kabàlëki			Winter
màtar (matar)			death
níllip (nillip)			a boy
nóm (nom)			a mouth
píma (pima)			compassion
rachéaty (racheaty)		a predator
róli (roli)			barley
tënéfia (tenefia)		a campsite
trúbet (trubEt)			an omen, a sign

NEG (negation)

ka-				not

NOM (nominalizers)

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

PART (participles)

-api				active participle (after consonants)

PASS (passivizer)

-fà (-fa)			makes the verb passive

PL (plural)

-en (-En)			after consonants (irregular)

POSS (possessive)

-gë (-ge)

POST (postpositions)

-art				about, concerning
-ba				from
-di				at
-nö (-no)			of
-ra				as, acting as, for (take him for a..., what do you take me for?)

PREP (prepositions)

kep- (kEp-)			to, as in given to

PRON (pronouns; can be suffixed or standalone)

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

V (verbs)

anílë (anile)			to sing
bürarit (burarit)		to fall
cílvë (cilve)			to come
éa (ea)				to exist
  éap'n				there is
làra (lara)			to laugh
lashirdà (lashirda)		to plant
léri (leri)			to feel (an emotion)
néyë (neye)			to hide
  nëyëfà (neyefa)		to be hidden
pícü (picu)			to dance
ràch (rach)			to hunt