Kala lexicon

Main Article: Kala

See also: Thematic Lexicon

General Lexica

• The majority of lexical units in Kala can have multiple roles.
• Most have a primary role, such as verb, noun or particle, but almost all can serve in at least two roles.
• Because of this, this list is sorted alphabetically and not by part of speech or category.

pa ta ka ma na nya sa ha tsa tla ua la ya a

pa

• pato - duck; male prostitute (slang)
• paka - fool; idiot; foolish; stupid
• pako - new; newly
• paku - to expose; to reveal; to lay bare
• pakyo - storm; gale; strong wind; flurry; blast; violent commotion; fig. crisis
• pama - to whip; to lash; to flog; to thrash
• pamya - okra; lady's fingers
• panto - tomato
• panka - to catch; to seize; to capture
• pana - to rain; rainy; rain
• pano - cloth; woven material; textiles
• panu - pastry; steamed bun; cake
• panya - a rodent (rat, rabbit etc)
• pasa - nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating
• pasu - saliva; slobber; (colloquial) useless talk; drivel
• pasua - to expand; to inflate; to swell
• patsa - to grate; to shred (vegetable)
• patsu - to punish; to penalize
• patla - field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral
• patle - act like a spoiled child; throw a tantrum; act coquettishly
• patlo - to sweep; to brush away; broom
• pala - to be able to; to be capable of; ability
  • -pa - able to; can

See also: mood

• palata - India
• pale - to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market
• palo - staff; a rod; cane; walking stick
• pa'o - eight; 8
• pa'onye - August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
• pa'u - tree bark
• paye - beyond; farther than; exceeding
• pe - spot; point; dot; speck
• peta - to map; to chart; to draft; map-making; charting; cartographic; graphics
• peka - flying fox; fruit bat (Pteroptidae); bat
• penka - impetus; impulse; emotional impulse; impulsive
• penku - connective; conjunction
• penua - continent; island
• penya - to wrestle; to grapple; to scuffle
• pesa - a bolt (of cloth)
• peso - to meet with; meeting
• peha - to penetrate; to pierce; drill
• petsa - tender; soft; delicate; inexperienced; unskilled
• petso - abdomen; stomach; belly
• pela - to cancel; cancellation
• peya - particle (grammatical)
• pita - void; hollow; empty
• piko - navel; belly button
• pinta - to comb; fine-toothed comb
• pina - quick at hearing; wise; clever; sharp-witted; intelligent; acute
• pitsa - thin flat cake; pancake; pizza
• pitle - discriminate against; discrimination
• pila - to pulverize; to crush
• pili - hyena
• piua - loquat tree [Eriobotrya japonica]; loquat fruit
• piyo - bee; honeybee
• poti - goat; billy goat; ram
• poto - picture; image; film; movie; photograph
• poka - Phocidae, family within Carnivora including seal
• poko - urinary bladder; bladder
• poku - cost; price; fee; charge; fine
• poma - apple
• posa - to divorce; divorced from (one's spouse)
• poso - part of syllabic/pictographic character; a radical
• posu - to reward; reward (as encouragement)
• potsi - pouch; bag; sack; pocket
• pola - shovel; spade; trowel; spatula [kitchen utensil]
• poya - to grumble; to complain; grievance
• puti - mint; spearmint
• puka - to rot; to decay; to become corrupt
• puku - to wear clothes; clothing
• pukue - blowfish (Tetraodontidae); puffer
• punta - to betray; to rebel; to revolt
• punka - to bear fruit; fruit; fruit tree
• puna - dust; dirt; earth
• punu - minute [unit of time; 60 seconds]
• punya - to jab; to poke; to stab; to sprain; to blunt; to fuck (vulgar)
• pusa - adverb
• pusu - to shake; to vibrate; to shock; to stun; shocking; fig. mind-blowing
• puha - lung; to breathe
• putsu - goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom; demon
• pula - cauldron; pot; kettle
• puama - afternoon; p.m.
• puana - deity; monster; strange; mysterious; supernatural
• puani - bank; shore; beach; coast
• puatli - calf [of the leg]
• pue - back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later
• pueto - to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth
• puetsa - octopus; mantis egg nest
• pyaka - tiger
• pyasa - custom; convention; popular; common
• pyeta - egg; ovum; spawn
• pyoki [-pyo] - ailment; sickness; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
• pyoho - louse, tick, mite, flea
• pyola - to spin; to rotate; to revolve
• pyo'o - to multiply by itself; to square

ta

• ta - 2SG pronoun; you

See also: pronouns

• tapa - lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover

• taka - respect; honor; to esteem; to respect; to honor

• tama - good; well; proper

• to - way; road; path; manner; method

• topa - bed; couch; mattress

• tope - gun; firearm; rifle

• topi - ankle bone; ankle

• topo - entrance; door; gate; portal

• topu - to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate

ka

• ka - interrogative particle [Q]
• kapa - suitable; adequate; fitting; enough; sufficient
• kapi - ugly; repulsive; not nice
• kapu - basket; bucket; box; container; barrel
• kata - nature; essence; universe
• kate - calligraphy
• kato - building or house of two or more stories
• kam - they [3pl]
• kampa - drink a toast; Cheers!
• kampo - catch cold; [common] cold
• kama - settlement; dwelling place; town; village; city
• kamala - moon (light)
• kami - themselves [3PL.REFL]
• kamu - dictionary
• kamyo - their(s) [3PL.POSS]
• kanta - generous; magnanimous
• kanka - corn; maize; husk; cob
• kanku - they - each other [3.RECP]
• kana - lead; leading; to lead; leader; chief; head; elder
• kane - dispel; refute; repudiate
• kanu - any stringed instrument
• kanyo - question; ask; raise a question
• kasa - umbrella; parasol; bamboo
• kase - announce; inform; report; newspaper
• kasi - infection; to infect; to influence
• kaso - arbitrarily; at will; random; chaos
• kasu - double; repeat; repetition; iteration; again; a layer
• kaha - paper; document; letter
• kahe - mirage; shadow; shade; obscure image
• kahi - door lock; key; key [on piano or keyboard]
• kahu - furniture
• katsa - glass; window pane
• katse - spiteful person [male or female]..."bitch"
• katsi - dignity; sanctity; honor; majesty; worth
• katsu - modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
• katsua - slip; slide; slippery; polished
• kala [-tla] - language; to talk; speak; say; dialect of X
• kale - legume
• kalo - substitute for; replace; supersede
• ka'e - to; towards; at (moving toward)
• ka'o - seven; 7
• ka'onye - July
• kaua - coffee
• kaue - lower cheek; chin; jaw
• kaya - the Earth; planet; world
• kaye - around; encircling; surrounding
• kayo - lose; lost; loss
• kayoma - Wednesday
• ke - topic; object of phrase; than; compared to
• keta - behave; conduct oneself; act a certain way
• keto - migration; mobile; portable
• kenta - excuse; forgive; pardon
• kenko - humble; humility; modesty
• kena - circle; round; circular; spherical
• kenu - knee; kneecap; patella
• keso - image; form; figure; visualization
• keha - anatomy; body; corpse
• ketsa - doubt; misbelieve; suspect; suspicion
• ketsu - unruly; rude
• ketla - red; rosy; flushed; scarlet
• keye - subject; course; class; lesson
• keyo - description; figure of speech; qualification; adjective
• ki [-i] - self; essence; life force; "spirit"; pronominal reflexive [REFL]
• kipa - gums; inner mouth
• kipo - aspire; hope; wish
• kita - north; north side; northern part; to the north of
• kimu - duty; responsibility; obligation
• kimyo - strange; odd; weird; unusual
• kinta - be rampant; run wild; spree
• kinte - invert; upside-down; swapped
• kinti - squirrel
• kina - mammal
• kini - silver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
• kisa - tear; split; separate
• kiso - base; foundation; basic; root; radical [chemistry]
• kisu - gram [unit of mass & weight]
• kiha - high; tall; above average; numerous; long
• kiho - at the opportune moment; as the circumstances allow
• kihu - climate; atmosphere; situation; weather
• kihua - clear; fine [weather]
• kihya - origin; source; provenance
• kitsa - darkness; lack of light
• kitla - create; invent; make-up
• kila - obvious; -ly
• kili - giraffe
• kiue - stink; odor; pungent aroma
• ko - one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in...; -er; -ist [AG]
• kopa - mushroom; fungi
• kopi - bridge; fig. connection between two areas; crosspiece
• kopo - yeast; leavening; fermentation
• koto - beat a drum; play a drum; rhythm
• kompo - seaweed
• kompu - computer; programmable device
• koma - conceal; hide away [lurk]
• komi - be allergic; allergy
• komo - barn; stall; horse house; stable; manger; shed
• konte - send; convey; transmit; distribute
• kona - skirt
• koni - skunk
• kono - ash; dust; lime; gray; rock; stone
• kosa - cut down; mow; eliminate; scythe; sickle
• kosi - formal; official
• kohe - plateau; bluff; mesa
• koho - hover; float; buoyant device
• kohu - fog; mist; steam
• kohya - castrate; a castrate; neuter
• kotso - earthenware; ceramic
• kotsu - clavicle; collarbone
• kola - anyone
• koli - tail; remainder; remnant; extremity
• kolo - notch; groove; indentation; hole
• koua - republic
• koya - apologize; make amends; remorse; sorry
• koyo - whose; of who
• ku - numeral; digit; number; figure; amount; quantity
• kupa - die; death; [be] dead
• kupe - tick; arthropod
• kupi - nipple; teat (on baby's bottle)
• kupu - butterfly
• kuta - wall; fence
• kuto - mathematics; mathematical
• kumpu - rational number [fraction of two integers; math]
• kuma - bear; ursine
• kume [-me] - to undo; to reverse; to cancel; to repeal
• kumu - include; inclusion
• kunta - army; military force
• kuna - excrete; expel; defecate; shit
• kunye [-nye] - moon; lunar; month of X
• kusu - push [away]; press; shove; squeeze
• kuha - cook; prepare food
• kuhi - hold; grasp; clench [one's fist]
• kuhu - protest; object
• kutsi - shrimp; prawn
• kutsu - flesh; meat
• kutsua - invite; invitation
• kula - any [amount]
• kule - tower; keep
• kua - all; whole; entire; every; complete
• kuampo - egotistical; arrogant; brassy
• kuama - always; at all times
• kuami - eel; any fish of the order Anguilliformes
• kuanu - bush; woody plant
• kuasi - so to speak; in a manner of speaking; as it were
• kuasili - Brazil
• kuaha - science; study; [chemistry]
• kuatla - snake; reptile
• kue - like; same; similar; together; alike
• kuepa - escape; run away; flee
• kueta - spring; springtime; spring weather
• kuetsa - cigarette
• kuetsu - precious; valuable; rare
• kueli - rights; legal entitlement
• kuelo - gorge; strait; ravine; isthmus
• kuya - green; grass; foliage
• kuye - to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch
• kya - particle expressing imperative
• kyapu - fleece; wool; woolen
• kyatlo - commander; officer in charge
• kyalo - jewel or gem; a treasure; precious stone
• kyepe - diagonal; sharp turn; zig-zag
• kyehu - stop doing sth for a period of time; break
• kye'o - hundred thousand ; 10^5
• kyo - at once; right away; quickly; hurry; fast; rapid
• kyopa - match; tool to start a fire
• kyopu - afraid; frightened; to fear; scare; dread; phobia
• kyota - crazy; deranged; insane; demented
• kyoma - barren place; desert
• kyomi - be interested; interest; interesting
• kyosa - sex; copulation; fornicate
• kyoso - compete; competition; match
• kyohi - refuse; decline; reject
• kyotlo - coyote
• kyoli - interspace; spacing; distance; interval; length
• kyolo - fast; rapid; quick; velocity

ma

• maya - water; liquid

na

• naha - river; stream; creek

nya

• nyamu - mosquito; black fly

sa

• saya - soothe; calm; relax

ha

• ha - 3SG pronoun; he, she, it

See also: pronouns

tsa

• tsapa - effort; trouble; endeavor; struggle; suffer
• tsata - council; committee; assembly; parliament
• tsaka - home; residence; household [furniture etc]; domicile
• tsaki - chewing gum; bubblegum
• tsaku - idea; thought; conception
• tsama - pretend; feign; play a role
• tsame - collect; gather; accumulate
• tsamo - reef; coral reef; shoal rock
• tsanka - tire; become bored with; be fed up of; tired
• tsanko - monkey; ape; primate
• tsana - meditation; to practice meditation; to sit in meditation
• tsani - story; tale
• tsasu - cursive
• tsahe - for (in exchange for)
• tsatli - pineapple
• tsala - sauce; paste; gravy; dressing; to dip
• tsalo - clear [transparent in color]
• tsa'e - across (at the other side of; to the other side of) ; through
• tsa'i / tsai - tea; tea plant; tea leaves
• tsa'o - six; 6
• tsa'onye - June
• tsaua - complexion; looks; appearance of one's face
• tsaya - used to express anger; irritation; contempt [damn]; expletive; pejorative
  • -po - affixed to nouns and verbs for intense degradation
• tsaye - since; until; till [in time]; to; up to; as far as [in space]
• tsayoma - Tuesday

See also: days of the week

• tsepa - please
• tseka - pull; draw near; tug; tow; yank
• tsenta - to overdo it; to overcook; to exaggerate
• tsenka - orange [fruit/tree/color]
• tseno - thigh; crotch
• tse'e - appear; be perceived as; seem as if; seem to; seemingly; apparently
  • -tse - attached to nouns and verbs
• tsipa - for a limited time; ephemeral; not constant; temporary
• tsipa'o - octagon
• tsitila - knuckle
• tsika'o - heptagon
• tsikua - bird; avian
• tsikue - habit; custom; usual practice; to be used to; tradition
• tsima - hour; period; time; o'clock
• tsima'o - square
• tsini - sugar
• tsinu - entice; arouse; provoke; arousal; erogenous
• tsisa'o - nonagon
• tsisu - coefficient; factor; modulus; ratio
• tsiha'o - triangle
• tsihi - compassion; mercy; sympathy; empathize
• tsitsa'o - hexagon
• tsila - lip
• tsilo - naked; bare; uncovered; exposed
• tsi'u - transitive; transitivity
• tsi'ute - elbow
• tsiua - lake; pond; pool
• tsiue'o - decagon
• tsiya - freedom; liberty
• tsiya'o - pentagon
• tsiyo - corridor; aisle; hallway; passageway; piazza; veranda
• tso - middle; mid-; half; center
• tsopa - pair; a mate; a couple; to couple
• tsopo - prefer; preferred; preference
• tsota - breed; reproduce; propagate
• tsoto - surrender; capitulate; give up
• tsoka - bump; collide with; strike
• tsoko - chocolate
• tsoma - tobacco [plant; leaves] | smoke ; smolder; cigarette
• tsomye - smug; vain; shameless
• tsonkua - China
• tsonyo - alert; attentive
• tsoho - material; resources; data; information
• tsola - fox; Vulpes
• tsupa - saliva
• tsuka - pride; hubris; arrogance
• tsuki - order; sequence; next; next; numerical ordinal
  • ki- - numerical ordinal prefix
• tsuku - look of rumpled feathers; bedraggled; wet and limp
• tsumpa - buy; purchase
• tsuma - metal
• tsumi - guilt; sin; offense
• tsumu - careful; cautious
• tsunka - insect; bug; worm
• tsunki - filter; strain; perforated screen
• tsunku - can; jar; pot; urn
• tsuna - join; connect; link up; communicate
• tsuhi - panther; leopard
• tsula - celebration; party; social gathering
• tsule - wire; string
• tsuama - sandwich; wrap; sub; baguette
• tsuasi - stock; share; capital raised by a company
• tsuali - thunder
• tsue - position; stance; posture
• tsuene - baboon
• tsuya - most important; prime; primary; principal; main
  • -tsu - prime; main
• tsuyo - armadillo

tla

• tlaka - man; male

• -ta - used to mark nouns as masculine [MASC]

ua

• ua - either; or; other; else
• uapya - insult; ridicule; disgrace
• uata - intestine; bowel; guts
• uati - verb
• uato - that way
• uak - neither...nor
• uaka - ox; cow; bull; bovine; cattle
• uaki - boil; stew; simmer
• uako - that person
• uaku - that amount; much; that many
• uama - then; at that time; then; meanwhile; consequently
• uame - surely; certainly; necessarily; fixed; a certain (extent etc); given
• uanta - confer; consult; negotiate; hold a conference
• uanki - to confine; to imprison; to jail; to cage
• uana - thither; there; that place
• uani - alligator; crocodile
• uano - that thing
• uanye - that reason
• uanyo - bay; gulf [body of water]
• uasa - skill; profession; trade; craft
• uasi - take; get; acquire
• uaso - that kind; that type
• uasu - drinking glass [cup]; jug; pot; vessel
• uahi - arbitrary; at will; at random
• uaho - miss; feel the absence of someone or something
• uatsa - to welcome; welcome
• uatse - correspond; interrelated; correlation; relevance; mutuality
• uatsi - fish
• uatla - that [one]
  • ua- - distal demonstrative [DIST]
• uatli - inferior; of lower quality
• uala - truthfully; verily; indeed
• uali - chart; diagram; graph; scheme
• ualo - to bring; to fetch; to get
• ua'a - spinach
• ua'e - on top; upon; above; upper
• uaya - ascend; rise; climb; go up; ascent
• uaye - from (moving out of or away from)
• uayeko - stranger; foreigner
• ueta - uncle
• uetanye - December
• ueka - lentil
• uemi - castle; fortress; barracks
• uemya - aloof; standoffish; unsociable
• uenta - parent's sibling
• uenku - spleen
• uena - aunt
• uenanye - November
• uene - ship; boat; vessel; canoe
• ueni - blame; criticize; condemnation; reproach
• uenyo - decade; age; era; period
• ueso - bone
• ueha - wish; to desire; to want; appetite
  • -ue - volitive mood [VOL]
• uetse - bathroom; toilet; WC; outhouse
• uetsi - dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless; in low spirits
• uetla - an upright drum
• uetli - power; exponent (math.)
• uela - sail [boat]
• uele - contract; abbreviate; abbreviation
• uelo - bicycle; bike
• ue'o - ten; 10
  • ue- - deka-
  • -ue - deci-
• ue'onye - October
• ueyo - to intend; intent; intention; intend

la

• -la - motional suffix added to prepositions

ya

• ya - vocative particle [VOC]
• yapa - an extra or unexpected gift or benefit
• yapo - build; construct; erect
• yapu - disgrace; shame; humiliation; embarrassment
• yata - greetings; hello; farewell; bye; goodbye
• yatila - thumb
• yato - hand; palm
• yaka - limb; appendage; leg
• yako - berry; strawberry
• yaku - translate; to interpret; translation
• yama - mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
• yanka - positive; greater than zero; principle
• yana - yellow; pornographic; to fall through
• yane - beside; by; next to; near; close to
• yani - define; meaning; definition; symbolism
• yano - avoid; shun; evade
• yasa - wind; news; style; air
• yasaya - peaceful wind
• yasi - cosmetics; makeup
• yaso - prepare; get ready
  • -so - prepare for X
• yasu - buffalo; bison
• yasue - cheap; inexpensive; low
• yahe - of (containing the measured quantity: "two liters of water")
• yatsi - tooth; bite; chew
• yatso - ferment; brew; make honey [of bees]; liquor
• yatsua - sigh in regret or pity
• yala - walk; to go; to travel
• yalo - covet; envious; jealous
• ya'o - five; 5
• ya'onye - May
• yaua - reply; answer; return; respond; echo
• yeta - give; transfer; donate
• yete - extraneous; redundant; superfluous
• yeku - circulate; distribute; circulation; distribution
• yempa - table; desk; flat work surface
• yema - both...and...
• yenkala - England; United Kindom
• yena - currency; monetary; money; coin; cash
• yenipa - white skinned one
• yeno - complete; to fill; full
• yesa - still; calm; quiet; not moving; peace; tranquil
• yeha - remote past [REM]
• yehi - recent past [REC]
• yetsa - cry; weep; sob; tear; tear-up
• yetsi - chair; seat; cushion; stool
• yetla - that [over there]
• yela - fart; break wind; talk nonsense; Utter rubbish!
• yeli - summarize; generalize; generalization
• yelo - freeze; solidify; congeal; ice; hail
• yeua - taste; try; sample
• yopi - post [office]; mail
• yota - deduce; infer; derive; an implication; extrapolate
• yote - assistance; aid; to help; to assist
• yoti - play; game; match; sporting event
• yoto - thus; like this; in this way; therefore; so; hence
• yoka - floor; deck
• yoko - swimming; to swim
• yoma - daytime; during the day; day
• yomaya - Monday
• yomi - bow; weapon used for shooting arrows
• yomo - right side; right; to the right
• yomu - read; study; count; recite
• yomua - morning; dawn; daybreak; a.m.; sunrise
• yonka - lava; magma
• yoni - virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
• yono - drama; play; theater
• yoso - left; the left side; to the left of
• yoha - have; possess
  • -yo - pronominal possessive [POSS]
• yohua - during the night; at night; nighttime
• yotsa - face; cheek
• yotso - noon; midday
• yotsu - larva; grub
• yotla - immerse; soak; steep; gradually
• yotli - melon; gourd; squash
• yolo - armor; shell
• youa - weak; feeble

a

• ana - head; skull; brain

• anu - ear; to hear; listen

• anya - eye; to see; look; watch

• ina - food; sustenance; to eat; to consume

• otso - wolf

• uma - horse; Equidae

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