Qihep-English dictionary

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This is a small Qihep-English dictionary. Words are listed according to their trascription in Latin alphabet. For clarity's sake, compound words are listed with the compounding syllable separated by a dot (∙); this aims to show the correct compounding syllables and it is not used in the usual transcription.

A

• a: and, but (conjunction expressing contrapposition)
• ab: about, on (postpos.)
• ab∙ce: to decide
• ab∙ce∙kȳt: decision
• al: milk
• al∙cīn: Milky Way
• an: on, over (postpos., with contact)
• ań: ant
• ar: before, previous, preceding
• ar∙bul∙tsēd: yesterday
• ar∙by∙tsēd: autumn, fall
• ar∙gō∙tsēd: spring
• ar∙gyb∙vran: grandparent
• ar∙mām: grandmother, granny
• ar∙pāp: grandfather
• as: old

Ā

• ā: (postpos., indicates the direct object)
• āf: to fly
• āl: to choose
• ān: evening
• āś: to open
• āv: flower, blossom, to blossom, to bloom
• āv∙im: flowering, blooming, in bloom, in flower

B

• ba: like, as, how (postpos.)
• ba∙na∙na: banana
• bāc: water
• bāc∙gȳb∙cā: hydrogen
• beg: to run
• bej: to hit
• bē: sheep, ovine (genderless)
• bē∙bē: flock, herd (of sheep)
• bēl: to leave
• bim: to go to (loc.)
• bim∙śter: planet
• bī: until (time postpos.)
• bly: to become
• boj: war
• boj∙pō∙śter: Mars, Martian
• boj∙pō∙śter∙vran: a Martian
• box: evidential particle (expressing doubt)
• bōl: big
• bōl∙bāc: sea
• bōl∙bāc∙pō∙śter: Neptune
• brā: lightning
• brā∙hor: electricity, electric
• brā∙hor∙pi∙cin: electrical current, electricity
• brā∙svūk: thunder
• brā∙tā: flash, lightning
• brin: to lose ((an object)), to misplace
• broj: number
• bu: gold, golden
• bul: sun
• bul∙cin: yellow
• bul∙tsēd: day
• bum: six
• būf: shoe, shoes
• byl: city
• bȳ: cold
• bȳs: bee
• bȳs∙wo: honey
• bȳ∙tsēd: winter

C

• ca: to divide, to subdivide, to separate
• caj: tea
• cak: to wait for
• can: short, little
• cas: hour
• caś: glass, cup
• cax: to eat
• cax∙nēc: hunger
• cax∙nēc∙cum: to starve
• cax∙nēc∙im: hungry
• cax∙or: edible
• cā: part
• cā∙nēm: to take part, to join
• cāx: food
• ce: to cut
• ce∙oh: scissor
• cē: knife
• cē∙bej: to stab, to knife
• ci: three
• cin: way, manner
• cīn: street, road, way
• cu: ill, sick, illness, sickness
• cum: to die, death
• cūv: feel, feeling, sense

D

• dān: moment, instant, circumstance
• den: child (genderless), son, daughter
• den∙den: offspring, progeny, descendants
• des: modal particle, wish, would like
• dīn: world
• do: personal pronoun, this, that, (indicates something undefined and inanimate, or everything we've already talked about before)
• dōm: house, home
• drug: other
• dum: word

E

• eg: strong
• eh: hello, to say hello, to greet

Ē

• ēw: light (adj.), not heavy

F

• fī: tall, high
• fran: wood (material)
• fran∙cin: brown

G

• gō: hot
• grēx: sin

Ǵ

• ǵi: strange
• ǵī: foreign
• ǵīv: to live, life, alive
• ǵīv∙sē: lifeless
• ǵīv∙sēr: mercury (element, substance)
• ǵīv∙snā∙kȳt: biology
• ǵī∙xēp: foreign language
• ǵu: large, wide
• ǵū: true, right, correct
• ǵyv: animal

H

• hor: power, dominion
• hor∙vran: king, queen, monarch, sovereign

I

• i: and (connecting clause elements)

Ī

• īt, full (o, of)

J

• jan: to stop
• jēq: language, to talk
• juǵ: south, Southern

K

• kōp: head, highest part
• kōp∙dīn: sky, heaven
• kōp∙krīv: hat
• kraj: end, final part, to finish (intr.)

L

• li: eye

M

• ma: you
• mew: cat
• mīś: mouse
• mō: bridge
• mū: sibling

N

• nev: snow
• nēm: to take
• nō: foot
• nōbim: to walk
• nū: new

Ń

• ńīm: name
• ńīm∙kreś: to name, to call, to give a name
• ńȳ: empty

O

• ob∙miś: to confuse, to mix

Ō

• ōl: oil, cooking oil
• ōń: weak

P

• pād: to fall
• piǵ: to see
• piǵ∙śak: to look for, to search for, research
• pīr: fire
• pū: night

Q

• qār: moon
• qo: five
• qum: to find

R

• rof: dog
• rok: year
• rō: eight

S

• sa: to read
• sās: stone, rock
• sās∙ōl: oil, petrol, petroleum
• sē: without (postpos.)
• skām: to substitute for, to stand in for, take one's place, which is instead of
• sluh: vase
• smāx: kiss, to kiss
• smē: laughing, to laugh
• spȳ: sleep, to sleep
• spȳ∙piǵ: dream, to dream
• sqoc: bone
• sqoc∙sqoc: skeleton
• stā: to be in, to be situated in (loc.)

Ś

• śhār: blood
• śo: seven
• śpom: help
• śter: star

T

• tā: light (n.)
• tsēd: day
• ty: ten, -teen, -ty

U

• un: inside (postp.)
• un∙bim: to go in, to get in, to enter (loc.)
• un∙qin: to come in, to get in, to enter (loc.)

Ū

• ūm: mind
• ūs: narrow

V

• va: nine
• vran: human, person, man (genderless)
• vran∙vran: people, humankind, mankind

W

• wor: to close

X

• xep: mouth
• xep∙svūk: voice
• xēp: language, to talk
• xēp∙oh: telephone, phone
• xīs: east, Eastern
• xoc: hurt, ache

Y

• yg: clear

Ȳ

• ȳd: snake