Kala lexicon

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General Lexica

The majority of lexical units in Kala can have multiple roles.
Most have a primary role, such as verb, noun or particle, but almost all can serve in at least two roles.
Because of this, this list is sorted alphabetically and not by part of speech or category.

pa ta ka ma na nya sa ha tsa tla ua la ya a

pa

pato - duck; male prostitute (slang)
paka - fool; idiot; foolish; stupid
pako - new; newly
paku - to expose; to reveal; to lay bare
pakyo - storm; gale; strong wind; flurry; blast; violent commotion; fig. crisis
pama - to whip; to lash; to flog; to thrash
pamya - okra; lady's fingers
panto - tomato
panka - to catch; to seize; to capture
pana - to rain; rainy; rain
pano - cloth; woven material; textiles
panu - pastry; steamed bun; cake
panya - a rodent (rat, rabbit etc)
pasa - nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating
pasu - saliva; slobber; (colloquial) useless talk; drivel
pasua - to expand; to inflate; to swell
patsa - to grate; to shred (vegetable)
patsu - to punish; to penalize
patla - field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral
patle - act like a spoiled child; throw a tantrum; act coquettishly
patlo - to sweep; to brush away; broom
pala - to be able to; to be capable of; ability
- -pa - able to; can

See also: mood

palata - India
pale - to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market
palo - staff; a rod; cane; walking stick
pa'o - eight; 8
pa'onye - August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
pa'u - tree bark
paye - beyond; farther than; exceeding
pe - spot; point; dot; speck
peta - to map; to chart; to draft; map-making; charting; cartographic; graphics
peka - flying fox; fruit bat (Pteroptidae); bat
penka - impetus; impulse; emotional impulse; impulsive
penku - connective; conjunction
penua - continent; island
penya - to wrestle; to grapple; to scuffle
pesa - a bolt (of cloth)
peso - to meet with; meeting
peha - to penetrate; to pierce; drill
petsa - tender; soft; delicate; inexperienced; unskilled
petso - abdomen; stomach; belly
pela - to cancel; cancellation
peya - particle (grammatical)
pita - void; hollow; empty
piko - navel; belly button
pinta - to comb; fine-toothed comb
pina - quick at hearing; wise; clever; sharp-witted; intelligent; acute
pitsa - thin flat cake; pancake; pizza
pitle - discriminate against; discrimination
pila - to pulverize; to crush
pili - hyena
piua - loquat tree [Eriobotrya japonica]; loquat fruit
piyo - bee; honeybee
poti - goat; billy goat; ram
poto - picture; image; film; movie; photograph
poka - Phocidae, family within Carnivora including seal
poko - urinary bladder; bladder
poku - cost; price; fee; charge; fine
poma - apple
posa - to divorce; divorced from (one's spouse)
poso - part of syllabic/pictographic character; a radical
posu - to reward; reward (as encouragement)
potsi - pouch; bag; sack; pocket
pola - shovel; spade; trowel; spatula [kitchen utensil]
poya - to grumble; to complain; grievance
puti - mint; spearmint
puka - to rot; to decay; to become corrupt
puku - to wear clothes; clothing
pukue - blowfish (Tetraodontidae); puffer
punta - to betray; to rebel; to revolt
punka - to bear fruit; fruit; fruit tree
puna - dust; dirt; earth
punu - minute [unit of time; 60 seconds]
punya - to jab; to poke; to stab; to sprain; to blunt; to fuck (vulgar)
pusa - adverb
pusu - to shake; to vibrate; to shock; to stun; shocking; fig. mind-blowing
puha - lung; to breathe
putsu - goblin; witch; devil; bewitching; enchanting; monster; phantom; demon
pula - cauldron; pot; kettle
puama - afternoon; p.m.
puana - deity; monster; strange; mysterious; supernatural
puani - bank; shore; beach; coast
puatli - calf [of the leg]
pue - back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later
pueto - to be willing to do sth; to be ready to do sth; to be happy to do sth
puetsa - octopus; mantis egg nest
pyaka - tiger
pyasa - custom; convention; popular; common
pyeta - egg; ovum; spawn
pyoki [-pyo] - ailment; sickness; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
pyoho - louse, tick, mite, flea
pyola - to spin; to rotate; to revolve
pyo'o - to multiply by itself; to square

mpa

mpaka - border; boundary; frontier; line
mpanko - plan; scheme; outline
mpana - wide; broad; extensive; vast; width
mpano - pliers; pincers; to clamp
mpaha - valuable; costly; expensive
mpatso - comfort; console; stroke; caress
mpala - odd number
mpali - balloon; hot air balloon
mpeka - frog; toad
mpelo - buzzard
mpima - dream; imagine
mpila - ball [game]
mpoka - vegetables; vegetable
mponto - cassava [leaves]
mponi - people; folk; the members of an ethnic group
mpuku - complicated; complex; intricate
mpuni - ostrich
mputsa - cheese
mpula - lamp; lantern; light
mpuli - fluff; lint; to feel nervous

ta

ta - 2SG pronoun; you

See also: pronouns

tapa - lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover

taka - respect; honor; to esteem; to respect; to honor

tama - good; well; proper

to - way; road; path; manner; method

topa - bed; couch; mattress

tope - gun; firearm; rifle

topi - ankle bone; ankle

topo - entrance; door; gate; portal

topu - to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate

ka

ka - interrogative particle [Q]
kapa - suitable; adequate; fitting; enough; sufficient
kapi - ugly; repulsive; not nice
kapu - basket; bucket; box; container; barrel
kata - nature; essence; universe
kate - calligraphy
kato - building or house of two or more stories
kam - they [3pl]
kampa - drink a toast; Cheers!
kampo - catch cold; [common] cold
kama - settlement; dwelling place; town; village; city
kamala - moon (light)
kami - themselves [3PL.REFL]
kamu - dictionary
kamyo - their(s) [3PL.POSS]
kanta - generous; magnanimous
kanka - corn; maize; husk; cob
kanku - they - each other [3.RECP]
kana - lead; leading; to lead; leader; chief; head; elder
kane - dispel; refute; repudiate
kanu - any stringed instrument
kanyo - question; ask; raise a question
kasa - umbrella; parasol; bamboo
kase - announce; inform; report; newspaper
kasi - infection; to infect; to influence
kaso - arbitrarily; at will; random; chaos
kasu - double; repeat; repetition; iteration; again; a layer
kaha - paper; document; letter
kahe - mirage; shadow; shade; obscure image
kahi - door lock; key; key [on piano or keyboard]
kahu - furniture
katsa - glass; window pane
katse - spiteful person [male or female]..."bitch"
katsi - dignity; sanctity; honor; majesty; worth
katsu - modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
katsua - slip; slide; slippery; polished
kala [-tla] - language; to talk; speak; say; dialect of X
kale - legume
kalo - substitute for; replace; supersede
ka'e - to; towards; at (moving toward)
ka'o - seven; 7
ka'onye - July
kaua - coffee
kaue - lower cheek; chin; jaw
kaya - the Earth; planet; world
kaye - around; encircling; surrounding
kayo - lose; lost; loss
kayoma - Wednesday
ke - topic; object of phrase; than; compared to
keta - behave; conduct oneself; act a certain way
keto - migration; mobile; portable
kenta - excuse; forgive; pardon
kenko - humble; humility; modesty
kena - circle; round; circular; spherical
kenu - knee; kneecap; patella
keso - image; form; figure; visualization
keha - anatomy; body; corpse
ketsa - doubt; misbelieve; suspect; suspicion
ketsu - unruly; rude
ketla - red; rosy; flushed; scarlet
keye - subject; course; class; lesson
keyo - description; figure of speech; qualification; adjective
ki [-i] - self; essence; life force; "spirit"; pronominal reflexive [REFL]
kipa - gums; inner mouth
kipo - aspire; hope; wish
kita - north; north side; northern part; to the north of
kimu - duty; responsibility; obligation
kimyo - strange; odd; weird; unusual
kinta - be rampant; run wild; spree
kinte - invert; upside-down; swapped
kinti - squirrel
kina - mammal
kini - silver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
kisa - tear; split; separate
kiso - base; foundation; basic; root; radical [chemistry]
kisu - gram [unit of mass & weight]
kiha - high; tall; above average; numerous; long
kiho - at the opportune moment; as the circumstances allow
kihu - climate; atmosphere; situation; weather
kihua - clear; fine [weather]
kihya - origin; source; provenance
kitsa - darkness; lack of light
kitla - create; invent; make-up
kila - obvious; -ly
kili - giraffe
kiue - stink; odor; pungent aroma
ko - one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in...; -er; -ist [AG]
kopa - mushroom; fungi
kopi - bridge; fig. connection between two areas; crosspiece
kopo - yeast; leavening; fermentation
koto - beat a drum; play a drum; rhythm
kompo - seaweed
kompu - computer; programmable device
koma - conceal; hide away [lurk]
komi - be allergic; allergy
komo - barn; stall; horse house; stable; manger; shed
konte - send; convey; transmit; distribute
kona - skirt
koni - skunk
kono - ash; dust; lime; gray; rock; stone
kosa - cut down; mow; eliminate; scythe; sickle
kosi - formal; official
kohe - plateau; bluff; mesa
koho - hover; float; buoyant device
kohu - fog; mist; steam
kohya - castrate; a castrate; neuter
kotso - earthenware; ceramic
kotsu - clavicle; collarbone
kola - anyone
koli - tail; remainder; remnant; extremity
kolo - notch; groove; indentation; hole
koua - republic
koya - apologize; make amends; remorse; sorry
koyo - whose; of who
ku - numeral; digit; number; figure; amount; quantity
kupa - die; death; [be] dead
kupe - tick; arthropod
kupi - nipple; teat (on baby's bottle)
kupu - butterfly
kuta - wall; fence
kuto - mathematics; mathematical
kumpu - rational number [fraction of two integers; math]
kuma - bear; ursine
kume [-me] - to undo; to reverse; to cancel; to repeal
kumu - include; inclusion
kunta - army; military force
kuna - excrete; expel; defecate; shit
kunye [-nye] - moon; lunar; month of X
kusu - push [away]; press; shove; squeeze
kuha - cook; prepare food
kuhi - hold; grasp; clench [one's fist]
kuhu - protest; object
kutsi - shrimp; prawn
kutsu - flesh; meat
kutsua - invite; invitation
kula - any [amount]
kule - tower; keep
kua - all; whole; entire; every; complete
kuampo - egotistical; arrogant; brassy
kuama - always; at all times
kuami - eel; any fish of the order Anguilliformes
kuanu - bush; woody plant
kuasi - so to speak; in a manner of speaking; as it were
kuasili - Brazil
kuaha - science; study; [chemistry]
kuatla - snake; reptile
kue - like; same; similar; together; alike
kuepa - escape; run away; flee
kueta - spring; springtime; spring weather
kuetsa - cigarette
kuetsu - precious; valuable; rare
kueli - rights; legal entitlement
kuelo - gorge; strait; ravine; isthmus
kuya - green; grass; foliage
kuye - to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch
kya - particle expressing imperative
kyapu - fleece; wool; woolen
kyatlo - commander; officer in charge
kyalo - jewel or gem; a treasure; precious stone
kyepe - diagonal; sharp turn; zig-zag
kyehu - stop doing sth for a period of time; break
kye'o - hundred thousand ; 10^5
kyo - at once; right away; quickly; hurry; fast; rapid
kyopa - match; tool to start a fire
kyopu - afraid; frightened; to fear; scare; dread; phobia
kyota - crazy; deranged; insane; demented
kyoma - barren place; desert
kyomi - be interested; interest; interesting
kyosa - sex; copulation; fornicate
kyoso - compete; competition; match
kyohi - refuse; decline; reject
kyotlo - coyote
kyoli - interspace; spacing; distance; interval; length
kyolo - fast; rapid; quick; velocity

ma

maya - water; liquid

na

naha - river; stream; creek

nya

nyamu - mosquito; black fly

sa

saya - soothe; calm; relax

ha

ha - 3SG pronoun; he, she, it

See also: pronouns

tsa

tsapa - effort; trouble; endeavor; struggle; suffer
tsata - council; committee; assembly; parliament
tsaka - home; residence; household [furniture etc]; domicile
tsaki - chewing gum; bubblegum
tsaku - idea; thought; conception
tsama - pretend; feign; play a role
tsame - collect; gather; accumulate
tsamo - reef; coral reef; shoal rock
tsanka - tire; become bored with; be fed up of; tired
tsanko - monkey; ape; primate
tsana - meditation; to practice meditation; to sit in meditation
tsani - story; tale
tsasu - cursive
tsahe - for (in exchange for)
tsatli - pineapple
tsala - sauce; paste; gravy; dressing; to dip
tsalo - clear [transparent in color]
tsa'e - across (at the other side of; to the other side of) ; through
tsa'i / tsai - tea; tea plant; tea leaves
tsa'o - six; 6
tsa'onye - June
tsaua - complexion; looks; appearance of one's face
tsaya - used to express anger; irritation; contempt [damn]; expletive; pejorative
- -po - affixed to nouns and verbs for intense degradation
tsaye - since; until; till [in time]; to; up to; as far as [in space]
tsayoma - Tuesday

tla

tlaka - man; male

-ta - used to mark nouns as masculine [MASC]

ua

ua - either; or; other; else
uapya - insult; ridicule; disgrace
uata - intestine; bowel; guts
uati - verb
uato - that way
uak - neither...nor
uaka - ox; cow; bull; bovine; cattle
uaki - boil; stew; simmer
uako - that person
uaku - that amount; much; that many
uama - then; at that time; then; meanwhile; consequently
uame - surely; certainly; necessarily; fixed; a certain (extent etc); given
uanta - confer; consult; negotiate; hold a conference
uanki - to confine; to imprison; to jail; to cage
uana - thither; there; that place
uani - alligator; crocodile
uano - that thing
uanye - that reason
uanyo - bay; gulf [body of water]
uasa - skill; profession; trade; craft
uasi - take; get; acquire
uaso - that kind; that type
uasu - drinking glass [cup]; jug; pot; vessel
uahi - arbitrary; at will; at random
uaho - miss; feel the absence of someone or something
uatsa - to welcome; welcome
uatse - correspond; interrelated; correlation; relevance; mutuality
uatsi - fish
uatla - that [one]
- ua- - distal demonstrative [DIST]
uatli - inferior; of lower quality
uala - truthfully; verily; indeed
uali - chart; diagram; graph; scheme
ualo - to bring; to fetch; to get
ua'a - spinach
ua'e - on top; upon; above; upper
uaya - ascend; rise; climb; go up; ascent
uaye - from (moving out of or away from)
uayeko - stranger; foreigner
ueta - uncle
uetanye - December
ueka - lentil
uemi - castle; fortress; barracks
uemya - aloof; standoffish; unsociable
uenta - parent's sibling
uenku - spleen
uena - aunt
uenanye - November
uene - ship; boat; vessel; canoe
ueni - blame; criticize; condemnation; reproach
uenyo - decade; age; era; period
ueso - bone
ueha - wish; to desire; to want; appetite
- -ue - volitive mood [VOL]
uetse - bathroom; toilet; WC; outhouse
uetsi - dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless; in low spirits
uetla - an upright drum
uetli - power; exponent (math.)
uela - sail [boat]
uele - contract; abbreviate; abbreviation
uelo - bicycle; bike
ue'o - ten; 10
- ue- - deka-
- -ue - deci-
ue'onye - October
ueyo - to intend; intent; intention; intend

la

-la - motional suffix added to prepositions

ya

ya - vocative particle [VOC]
yapa - an extra or unexpected gift or benefit
yapo - build; construct; erect
yapu - disgrace; shame; humiliation; embarrassment
yata - greetings; hello; farewell; bye; goodbye
yatila - thumb
yato - hand; palm
yaka - limb; appendage; leg
yako - berry; strawberry
yaku - translate; to interpret; translation
yama - mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
yanka - positive; greater than zero; principle
yana - yellow; pornographic; to fall through
yane - beside; by; next to; near; close to
yani - define; meaning; definition; symbolism
yano - avoid; shun; evade
yasa - wind; news; style; air
yasaya - peaceful wind
yasi - cosmetics; makeup
yaso - prepare; get ready
- -so - prepare for X
yasu - buffalo; bison
yasue - cheap; inexpensive; low
yahe - of (containing the measured quantity: "two liters of water")
yatsi - tooth; bite; chew
yatso - ferment; brew; make honey [of bees]; liquor
yatsua - sigh in regret or pity
yala - walk; to go; to travel
yalo - covet; envious; jealous
ya'o - five; 5
ya'onye - May
yaua - reply; answer; return; respond; echo
yeta - give; transfer; donate
yete - extraneous; redundant; superfluous
yeku - circulate; distribute; circulation; distribution
yempa - table; desk; flat work surface
yema - both...and...
yenkala - England; United Kindom
yena - currency; monetary; money; coin; cash
yenipa - white skinned one
yeno - complete; to fill; full
yesa - still; calm; quiet; not moving; peace; tranquil
yeha - remote past [REM]
yehi - recent past [REC]
yetsa - cry; weep; sob; tear; tear-up
yetsi - chair; seat; cushion; stool
yetla - that [over there]
yela - fart; break wind; talk nonsense; Utter rubbish!
yeli - summarize; generalize; generalization
yelo - freeze; solidify; congeal; ice; hail
yeua - taste; try; sample
yopi - post [office]; mail
yota - deduce; infer; derive; an implication; extrapolate
yote - assistance; aid; to help; to assist
yoti - play; game; match; sporting event
yoto - thus; like this; in this way; therefore; so; hence
yoka - floor; deck
yoko - swimming; to swim
yoma - daytime; during the day; day
yomaya - Monday
yomi - bow; weapon used for shooting arrows
yomo - right side; right; to the right
yomu - read; study; count; recite
yomua - morning; dawn; daybreak; a.m.; sunrise
yonka - lava; magma
yoni - virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
yono - drama; play; theater
yoso - left; the left side; to the left of
yoha - have; possess
- -yo - pronominal possessive [POSS]
yohua - during the night; at night; nighttime
yotsa - face; cheek
yotso - noon; midday
yotsu - larva; grub
yotla - immerse; soak; steep; gradually
yotli - melon; gourd; squash
yolo - armor; shell
youa - weak; feeble

a

ana - head; skull; brain

anu - ear; to hear; listen

anya - eye; to see; look; watch

ina - food; sustenance; to eat; to consume

otso - wolf

uma - horse; Equidae

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