Siye Thematic Vocabulary

Thematic Vocabulary

Colors

kiwa - red

kupi - blue, green

nelo - black, dark

tuki - white, light

waki - yellow

yoka - color

Geography

Anosu - the lost third moon of Mars, possibly mythical

imponum - dunelands

Kawola - Cavora, the system of tidal tubes within the Moon

Kiwa - Mars

kikanum - gentle sloping terrain, not quite flat

lukika - the exposed bottom of a marsh or lakebed - not quite flat

lulumke - starlands, the rest of the Solar System outside Mars

lum - moon

lumke - star

lumkenum - starlands, flatlands, land where the Mountain does not obstruct the view of the sky

lumsa - foreign land or region

Luna - Earth's Moon (Eng.)

lunum - region

lupate - mountain, highlands

lupe - garden

lupomi - the East

lupuka - channellands created by riverine erosion

Lusili - the City, the capital of the Valley

lusili - city

lusilike - town

lusilikenum - rustic environment (not wilderness)

lusilinum - urban environment

luyetam - stony plot, building lot

Nini - Phobos

Pelusitom - Belu-Sidon, the Inner World inside the Earth

pomi - the Sun, day, daytime

pominum - desert, shadeless land

pukanum - chaos terrain, terrain shaped more by wind erosion than water

sakikemhu - river

sakipo - lake, sea

Seni - Deimos

silinum - house plot

silu - fortress

silunum - pale, guarded land

Simakim - the lands wherever proper Siye is spoken

simate - canyon

Tela - Earth (Eng.)

upepo - 'forest' (Mars' forests are more like thick scrub)

upenum - fertile land (esp. when in bloom)

Winu - Venus (Eng.)

yetanum - stony region

Metals

akaso - electrum (aka-so refers to a mixture of two metals or substances - without further specification, it means electrum)

eyemo - mercury

nako - iron

nomno - lead

sima - iron ore (< Ulok *sima 'iron')

sumo - tin

uyam - silver

wako - gold

wamo - bronze

yono - copper

yunima - carbon, coal