Wanya/Vocabulary
This is a more detailed version of Wanya's vocabulary section. It includes additional information about most words, such as their external or internal etymology, or how they are pronounced.
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Б
bi (bi) [bi]
evid. and
bun (bun) [bun]
n. word
borrowed from Batu bun "word".
bunɹa (bunɹa) [bun.ɹa]
adj. beautiful
has nothing to do with bun.
blanda (blanda) [blan.da]
v. to give sth. to sb.
bet (bet) [bɛt]
adj. back
in direction or time.
betenda (betenda) [bɛ.tɛn.da]
v. to retreat from sth., to go back (direction or time)
benonda (benonda) [be.nɔn.da]
v. to live
baun (baun) [ba͡un]
n. sheep, goat
also the sound effect for explosions, as a reference to the Baa Bomb trope.
bas (bas) [baʃ]
adj. down, low, under
boen (boen) [bɔ͡ɛn]
n. spoken message
boenda (boenda) [bɔ͡ɛn.da]
v. to say, speak, talk
D
du (du) [du]
adj. done, okay
dudek (dudek) [du.dɛk]
n. circle, ring, halo
duŋ (duŋ) [duŋ]
num. 2
dꝛanda (dꝛanda) [dʁanda]
v. to work at sth.
G
W
Я
Y
P
T
tə (tə) [te]
n. tea
do not confuse with the word for “right”, which is spelled the same way but pronounced /tə/.
tə (tə) [tə]
adj. right (direction)
do not confuse with the word for “tea”, which is spelled the same way but pronounced /te/.
K
Δ
L
Λ
λi (λi) [ʎi]
conj. and (+ list of nouns, + λi again)
λeäna (λeäna) [ʎe.a.na]
n. milk
I
ista (ista) [iʃ.ta]
num. 3
the i is left out when this digit appears after another digit. For example 8 is vosta (vosta /vɔʃ.ta/), 13 is duŋsta (duŋsəta /duŋ.sə.ta/) and 18 is istasta (istasta /iʃ.taʃ.ta/).
Ǝ
U
B
R
Ꝛ
V
Z
zuïyu (zuïyu) [zu.ɪ.ju]
n. convention, standard, tradition (unwritten laws in general)
Γ
M
N
Ŋ
F
S
X
E
A
O
oxiko (oxiko) [ɔ.xi.kɔ]
n. water
Abbreviations
- adj. adjective
- conj. conjunction
- evid. evidential
- n. noun
- num. number word
- pron. pronoun
- v. verb
- sb. somebody
- sth. something
- swh. somewhere
