Kala thematic lexicon

• This lexicon is modeled after the Thematic Dictionary of Verdurian and the List of 1400 Basic Words in LFN.

See also: Kala Lexicon

Particles / Articles

• ke - definite article / topic marker / accusative particle (non-obligatory, used for specificity)
• kya - jussive particle (placed before the phrase)
• ya - vocative particle (placed before the noun being addressed)

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative	Possessive	Reflexive	Reciprocal
1st sing	na	ena	nayo	na'i
2nd sing	ta	eta	tayo	ta'i
3rd sing	ha	eha	hayo	ha'i
1st plu	nam	enam	namyo	nami	nanku
1st plu (EXCL)	na'am	ena'am	na'amyo	na'ami	na'anku
2nd plu	tam	etam	tamyo	tami	tanku
3rd plu	kam	ekam	kamyo	kami	kanku

Other pronouns

• tla - a fourth person pronoun, used for all inanimate and abstract nouns, tla inflects in the same way that all other pronouns do
• itla - this (here)
• uatla - that (here)

See also: Kala Correlatives

Correlatives

adjective	ke ka which	i- this	ua- that	iha- some	ok none	-(u)la any	-kua every	ote- whichever
person	ko ka who	iko this one	uako that one	ihako someone	hok no one	kola anyone	hokua everyone	oteko whoever
thing	no ka what	ino this one	uano that one	ihano something	nok nothing	nola anything	nokua everything	oteno whatever
time	ama ka when	ima now	uama then	ihama sometime	amak never	amala anytime	kuama always	otema whenever
place	mo ka where	hina here	uana there	ihamo somewhere	mok nowhere	mola anywhere	mokua everywhere	otemo wherever
way	to ka how	yoto thus	uato in that way	ihato somehow	tok in no way	tola in any way	tokua in every way	oheto however
amount	ku/o ka how much/many	iku this much/many	uaku that much/many	ihaku some (amount)	ok none	kula any (amount)	okua every amount	oteku however much
reason	nye ka why	inye this reason	uanye that reason	ihanye some reason	nyek no reason	nyela any reason	nyekua every reason	otenye whyever

Food

Drink

• inu - drink
• inupan - drinkable
• kaua - coffee
• tsai - tea
• hali - milk
• maya - water
• ka'asu - juice

Kinship terms

Direct

• otahaka - great-grandfather
• onahaka - great-grandmother
• otaha - grandfather / great-uncle
• onaha - grandmother / great-aunt
• ota - father / uncle
• ona - mother / aunt
• otaua - brother / cousin
• onaua - sister / cousin
• ota’i - son / nephew
• ona’i - daughter / niece
• ota’iha - grandson
• ona’iha - granddaughter

Indirect

• tla’ota husband
• tla’ona wife
• po’ota father-in-law
• po’ona mother-in-law
• po’ona’i daughter-in-law
• po’otaua brother-in-law
• po’onaua sister-in-law
• tla'ota’i - stepson
• tla'ona’i - stepdaughter

Numbers

Cardinal

• e'o - zero / nothing
• na'o - one
• ta'o - two
• ha'o - three
• ma'o - four
• ya'o - five
• tsa'o - six
• ka'o - seven
• pa'o - eight
• sa'o - nine
• ue'o - ten
• nye'o - hundred
• tle'o - thousand
• mue'o - ten thousand
• kye'o - hundred thousand
• nte'o - million

Higher Numbers

• uena'o - eleven / 11

• taue'o - twenty / 20

• nyeka'o - one hundred seven / 107

• hanyetauetsa'o (long form) | hatatsa'o (short form) - three hundred twenty six / 326

• tsatletauema'o - six thousand and twenty four / 6024

Ordinals, Negatives, Fractions etc.

• ki- - ordinal prefix

Example : kisa'o - ninth (in a sequence)

Example : kiyanyepa'o - 508^th

• ti- - multiple prefix

Example : tisa'o - nine times

Example : tiyanyepa'o - 508 times

• i- - fractional prefix

Example : isa'o - a ninth, 1/9

Example : iha'o te pa'o - three eighths, 3/8 [lit: a third of eight]

• -k - negative/subtractive suffix

Example : sa'ok - negative nine (-9)

Example : ue'o ma sa'ok na'o a - 10 and -9 is 1

Time

Days of the Week

• The Kala week begins on Thursday.

• nayoma - Thursday
• tayoma - Friday
• yomha - Saturday
• mayoma - Sunday
• yomya - Monday
• tsayoma - Tuesday
• kayoma - Wednesday

Calendar

The Kala calendar is modeled after the Baha'i Calendar.

• A chart of the Kala sayoma.

• Based on this calendar, Cinco de Mayo would be yoma pa'o te sayo ha'o, or Day 8 of Month 3.

• The correlating vocabulary to the Gregorian calendar differs.

No.	English	Kala
1	January	na'oku
2	February	ta'oku
3	March	ha'oku
4	April	ma'oku
5	May	ya'oku
6	June	tsa'oku
7	July	ka'oku
8	August	pa'oku
9	September	sa'oku
10	October	ue'oku
11	November	uenaku
12	December	uetaku

Colors

• akai - red
• otliyo - orange
• yana - yellow
• kuya - green
• tsuku - blue
• tlaku - indigo, violet, purple
• nyahi - white, pale
• oya - black, dark
• yehi - clear

Thematic Lexicon

family

• family / kin - tlika
• parent - onata
• grandparent - onataha
• spouse - tlanata
• sibling - uanata
• child - inata
• father / uncle - ota
• mother / aunt - ona
• husband - tla'ota
• wife - tla'ona
• grandfather - otaha
• grandmother - onaha
• brother / cousin - otaua
• sister / cousin - onaua
• boy / son - ota'i
• girl / daughter - ona'i
• man / masculine / male - tlaka
• woman / feminine / female - naka

time

• moment, instant - imahi
• occasion | present, now (yet) - ima
• hour, period - imaha
• day - yoma
• week (7 days) - sema
• month (~30 days) - huama
• season - amahi
• time, year (~365 days) - ama
• era - amaha
• past - amaye
• future - amatli
• always, forever - kuama
• never - amak

prepositions

• pa'e - in / into / during
• paye - across / through
• po'a - behind / after
• tahe - below / under
• kima - like / similar to
• ma'a - with / in company of / using
• ma'ak - without / except
• ma'e - in front of / before
• mina - from / out of / since / of
• na'e - on / on top of
• nya - by (actor / author)
• sana - outside
• hata - by / beside / up to / until
• tsa'e - beyond / past / across
• ua'e - above / over / about / concerning
• uana - there / far / distant
• yane - along / beside
• ita'e - between / among
• ika - to / at / toward
• o'a - opposite / against / in spite of
• oma - around / approximately / close to
• uta - for / in order to / benefiting / on behalf of
• ue - above / over / on

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