Siye Thematic Vocabulary
Thematic Vocabulary
Creatures
Beasts
kewim - lion
Birds
ola - eagle
oya - eagle
tupi - bird
usu, usuko - Tharsis scrub chicken
Bugs
nene - bug, insect
Fish
uku - fish
People
General
laye - woman; female
leya - man; male
sukimayam - traveler
susumsuyam - messenger
um - person
Family
laye lu - mother
layeke - girl; sister
leya lu - father
leyake - boy; brother
nusu - sibling
nusu laye - sister
nusu leya - brother
Colors
kiwa - red
kupi - blue, green
nelo - black, dark
tuki - white, light
waki - yellow
yoka - color
Geography
Celestial Bodies
Anosu - the lost third moon of Mars, possibly mythical
Kawola - Cavora, the system of tidal tubes within the Moon
Kiwa - Mars
lu Atamme - Earth; Adam's land
lulumke - starlands, the rest of the Solar System outside Mars
Luna - Earth's Moon (Eng.)
Nini - Phobos
Pelusitom - Belu-Sidon, the Inner World inside the Earth
Seni - Deimos
Winu - Venus (Eng.)
Town Names
Item - a city in the Valley, renowned for learning
Kilu - town name
Lusili - the City, the capital of the Valley
Nesa - the Kingdom of Nesa, on the Mountain
Silu - a vlllage, once a mighty fortress-city that controlled river traffic
Simakim - the lands wherever proper Siye is spoken
Tapaya - a city in the Valley ( < Tasi word Dapaya(y))
Wili - a city in the valley ( < local dialect Biri)
Islands
kelim - peninsula
lem - island
lemi - group of islands
lemu - island, solitary island
lempe - island with tidal channel dividing it in two
lempi - group of islands
lempu - island, solitary island
lenu - submerged island
lim - island
lu (2) - submerged island
Rivers=
lemto - eddy
leno - eddy
imponum - dunelands
sakike - pond
sakikemhu - river
sakipo - lake, sea
tolim - clear stretch of river
Other
kikanum - gentle sloping terrain, not quite flat
lu - place
lu tupi lukeme - spaceport
luke - world, planet
lukika - the exposed bottom of a marsh or lakebed - not quite flat
lum - moon
lumke - star
lumkenum - starlands, flatlands, land where the Mountain does not obstruct the view of the sky
lumsa - foreign land or region
luno - luno-temple
lunum - region
lupate - mountain, highlands
lupe - garden
lupomi - the East
lupuka - channel-lands created by riverine erosion
lusili - city
lusilike - town
lusilikenum - rustic environment (not wilderness)
lusilinum - urban environment
luyetam - stony plot, building lot
pomi - the Sun, day, daytime
pominum - desert, shadeless land
pukanum - chaos terrain, terrain shaped more by wind erosion than water
sili - house
sili nukepu - tower
silim - shiling-temple
silinum - house plot
silu - fortress
silunum - pale, guarded land
simate - canyon
upepo - 'forest' (Mars' forests are more like thick scrub)
upenum - fertile land (esp. when in bloom)
yetamhi - quarry
yetanum - stony, infertile 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
Derivative Nominal Suffixes
-e - place-name
-hi, -0 - resource location
-ka - patient (non-productive)
-nam - place name (non-productive)
-ni - tool suffix (soni 'sledgehammer')
-nim. -(y)im - place name
-nu, -lu - resource location
-nu, -(y)u - commercial (name, neighborhood)
-num, -(y)um - ethnic (name, neighborhood)
-sa - agent (non-productive)
