YivalEZ - Glossary for Yivalkes

Paros

Seagull

A loud person is certainly a Pobo. Other terms are different names given close to Yivalkes

YLylyl

Eye

Khuuyall

See

YNbb

Fruit

Bean

Ali

Seed

Dgwb

Plead

Cattle

Belluuv

Seek domestication

Any sort of animal or human that seeks to be handled. For humans, it means hoping to be included as part of a clan when from an outsider’s point of view.

Dldn

Tell

House

T’halen

Set the tone

Prepare the theatre for the story, set the mood for it, preparing the event

LLly

Gorge/
Bridge/
Breath

Wash

Lhiwa

Sewer

Ybgd

Weave

Hand/
Friend

Iivgat

Sewing hands

The Fates.

GLdgbx

Gold

Plead

Cup

DzhilSkepa

Shadow

Especially from the sun

GLdgbxYLyl

Gold

Plead

Cup

Eye

DzhilSkepoyar

Shadow-tint

Colours necessary to make shadows in ceramics and otherwise. Important colour theory

DLgn

Tell

Tooth/
Dog-likes

Dalledzhen

Sharp story

Verbal assault, agressive talk, Offense, Ill gossips, Calling someone out in mean ways, sharing past with the intention of causing harm

DXwb

Sow/
Tool

Cattle

Shishi

Shears

WLdx

Brick

Sow/
Tool

Ulet

Shed

Any sort of spot constructed for the purpose of holding tools. Can be a shelf, a quiver holder, even a brick side that has an embedded row works. It’s in the shed: Ulait; Take from the shed: Lokh uloss

WByb

Cattle

Weave

U-ufe-ff

Sheep

LWgyWYwxYLyl

Flow

Horns

Lil Bird

Little Animal

Eye

Lusharoyar

Shiny black

BXbg

Cup

Staff

Bakhaa

Ship’s Mast

As well as a dys-euphemism, for example in the phrase Khadzha Bakhani which I will not translate.

Dybx

Breast

Cup

Spa

Shirt

Simple shirt made of the Vonun (long cotton cloth) wrapped around the breast and shoulders, with a folding knot on the side of the body

Bwwx

Dead

Little Animal

Pwaa!

Shoo!

Phrase to move animal, and people. Said loud and with a slow falling tone. Often with Pwaa! KePwaa!

GLnn

Gold

Star/
Fish

Inngaloor

Shooting star

Bldy

Hide/
Leather

Breast

Flisi

Short Leather cape

Short, roundish, worn over the shoulder and covers the neck to just under the breasts and half the back. Worn in rainy or hot sunny days.

Xdly

Campfire

Wash

Etli

Short Meal

Especially near the end of a stop, often perceived as a second meal

XLbn

Balance

Cloth

Benaal

Short Toga

Worn with a belt

WDxx

Passion

Feather

Naa

Short be here

Used to be its own word but the root for home has taken over, and now the reduplicate influenced the be again to be Na

WDxx

Passion

Feather

Saan

Short be here

Used to be its own word but the root for home has taken over, and now the reduplicate influenced the be again to be Na

WDyy

Passion

Manner

Ta’oos

Short be hither

Used to be Tanda, then Tan’os, then now Ta’os.

WXxnnl

Little Animal

Snake

Pumice/
Reptiles/
Frogs

Muranoy

Shrew

Xblbgy

Lip

Horns

Tshi

Shush

A nice way to say not a peep more, and don’t move too.

Bwlx

Dead

Measure

Fula

Sickened

Measured low. A little dead. Not fully well.

GGbg

Hook/
Defecation

Staff

Baasketa

Sickle

YLlxnyGy

Eye

Measure

Plant

Horns

Mereash

Sickly

Not in the past

Bxnx

Cup

Tie/
Rope

Pena

Sieve

To drain water from milk for example

Bxnxgd

Cup

Tie/
Rope

Hand/
Friend

Penakhad

Sieve Hand

Also Tuskekhad/Tuskad. Practice that takes the good and leaves the bad of food and other gifts from unclear sources. Placing fingers from one hand perpendicular to the other hand as to see through the resulting mesh.

BBldgd

Bean

Roll/
Wheel

Hand/
Friend

Tuskad

Sieve hand

Also Penakhad. Practice that takes the good and leaves the bad of food and other gifts from unclear sources. Placing fingers perpendicular to each other and looking through the resulting mesh

BBldgd

Bean

Roll/
Wheel

Hand/
Friend

Tuskekhad

Sieve hand

Also Penakhad. Practice that takes the good and leaves the bad of food and other gifts from unclear sources. Placing fingers perpendicular to each other and looking through the resulting mesh

BBby

Bean

Bee

Flan

Silk stuff

Spider web, silky substances

GLxl

Gold

Balance

Alkha

Silver

Material

GLxlGbdg

Gold

Balance

Head

Plead

Alkhafdega

Silver hair

specially when it’s part of an otherwise regular colour hair

Bgwn

Staff

Big bird

Vakhawn

Sing

Ngxd

Mix

Campfire

Nagaa-s

Sister

DD.

Sit/
Monarch

Entse

Sit

Leader, Decree, Sit Command

NN.

Star/
Fish

Nanoyo

Skies

Skies, Roofs, Leaves, ceilings, top-weather

NN.

Star/
Fish

Takkey

Skies

Skies, Roofs, Leaves, ceilings, top-weather

Xgnl

Horse

Pumice/
Reptiles/
Frogs

Kanal

Skin tag

Rough patch of skin, on animals and humans alike, that is solid to the touch

GXbx

Desire

Cup

Kva

Skirt-like toga

With a belt for the purse, often worn with an across-torso-belted bag

NByg

Navel

Strength

Nepish

Sky

Old sounding. Related to mountain air and the likes. The more common term is Tekke.

Nddxgy

Nose

Sow/
Tool

Horns

Natshi

Slave

Role

GWlg

Lie

Collect

Kwal-g

Sleeping mat

Transportable bed, sleeping bag of sort

YYgwgw

Manner

Lie

(Kisshkoy)

Sleepy tone

Yawning and the whole thing

NYbwdd

Plant

Dead

Sit/
Monarch

Entsifo

Slimey chair

When a leader is starting to take ill defined choices, they need to get off the chair and clean it, or somebody else will.

NYbw

Plant

Dead

Nifo

Slimy, rotten

Vegetables left after a while, that sort of rotten, partially slimey. Works for similarly gooey substances. A bad word that gets sometimes replaced by Nifim, bee hive, which does has slime, but not as pungeant.

BBwygy

Bean

Lil Bird

Horns

Pui

Slingshot

BBwydb

Bean

Lil Bird

Taste

Koo

Slingshot stone

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LWxx

Flow

Feather

Law

Slippery

Careful, homophone of the correct spot

LWdxnx

Flow

Sow/
Tool

Tie/
Rope

Taraw Ma!

Slippery snot!

Expletive, used when something slips off the hand

Xnbd

Snake

Foot

Anka

Slithering to

Xnbdgy

Snake

Foot

Horns

Ansha

Slithering to

XbLddx

Roll/
Wheel

Sow/
Tool

Ellasset

Slow down!

Lddl

Roll/
Wheel

Tell

Ledha-l

Slow, lenghty

Gywn

Horns

Big bird

-Shawn

Small Nearby

Satellitical. Following.

BxDLxx

Cup

Tell

Feather

Pa’tura

Small cup

Dbdx

Taste

Sow/
Tool

Sipet

Small spoon

BxNXld

Cup

Tie/
Rope

Roll/
Wheel

Panars

Smallest cup

NDld

Nose

Roll/
Wheel

Resaan-d

Smell of change

Things are changing, one can smell it.

NDlw

Nose

Flow

Ulufan-t

Smell of rain

Bdnd

Foot

Nose

Vettan

Smelly legs

Really it’s smelly butted, but it’s a friendly way to say it.

DXbgww

Sow/
Tool

Staff

Group

Bassuu

Smith

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Aansifee

Snake

Snake, uncertain, unknown, 6th sense, random, life and death, the placeholder for unknown force

LGgnxn

Collect

Tooth/
Dog-likes

Snake

Naraashpizhuu

Snake den

GDxn

Hand/
Friend

Snake

Andekhad

Snake hand

Gesture representing a snake, especially to describe slithering, movement away from.

GGnd

Hook/
Defecation

Nose

Maa-gn

Snot

NXnd

Tie/
Rope

Nose

Maa-gn

Snot

YNggnx

Fruit

Hook/
Defecation

Tie/
Rope

Alawmaa-gn

Snot berry

Yuck. Sorry.

BDbx

Foot

Cup

Kumpass

Socks/Boots

Leg cup. Isn’t it cute?

GXdl

Desire

Tell

Kadhol

Song

Especially those you could hear in a tavern, that people may know lyrics and sing along and who don’t always require instruments.

YDgy

Speak

Horns

Shtallasb-ar-r

Song speak

The act of singing or using songs to speak especially when trying to drive a point. Also speaking to oneself when no one is around

YDgngb

Speak

Tooth/
Dog-likes

Head

Lasbagenkaba

Sorrow

Especially brought by words, due or undue

NXwwLDll

Tie/
Rope

Group

Roll/
Wheel

Gorge/
Bridge/
Breath

K’hiirakulla

Soul Silvering

“It is not only the balance of light, on the equinox. It is the long, heavy winter that silvers the fragile glass one walks - into a mirror - reflecting their true potential.”

BllxXnbl

Hide/
Leather

Measure

Snake

Hide/
Leather

Farambar

Soulmates

Two that remain together forever, regardless of the condition of their relationship

NGbx

Mix

Cup

Makhva

Soup Bowl

To lift to the mouth with two hands, usually with a Nappe if it’s too hot

DYxxyg

Breast

Feather

Strength

Zagratt

Southern Temple

Imported word

NWxd

Growth

Campfire

Noskir

Spark

Beginning a fire

Ldbl

Roll/
Wheel

Hide/
Leather

Lassb-ar-r

Speak

Usually written instead with the “Ld.”

YD.

Speak

Lassb-ar-r

Speak

DLll

Tell

Gorge/
Bridge/
Breath

Tellir

Speak to a canyon

Speak or sing to make an echo at a canyon or similarly made places. Out of that context, means speaking to a wall, to hear oneself rather than getting a response from the other party, or to hear the party respond in kind rather than add anything

Ldbldx

Roll/
Wheel

Hide/
Leather

Sow/
Tool

Lassbat

Speak with a tool

YDdx

Speak

Sow/
Tool

Lasbat

Speak with a tool

or Speak on behalf of someone

YD.dx

Speak

Sow/
Tool

Lasbat

Speak with a tool

or Speak on behalf of someone

XndlGbbn

Snake

Tell

Head

Cloth

Endaarkevven

Speak without control

Gobble the other’s ears

XndlGbbnBlyx

Snake

Tell

Head

Cloth

Hide/
Leather

Centre

Endaarkevvemfreyee

Speak without control to its end

Gobble the other’s ears

LBxx

Lip

Feather

Alsulobba

Speaking from the spirit

Ldblxn

Roll/
Wheel

Hide/
Leather

Snake

Lassbram

Speaking right now

A trend is starting where a present imperfect is seeing the use of -am as its ending, often truncating the last consonant.

Ldblxn

Roll/
Wheel

Hide/
Leather

Snake

Lassbam

Speaking right now

A trend is starting where a present imperfect is seeing the use of -am as its ending, often truncating the last consonant. Also Lasbam is used in response to someone interrupting

Dnng

House

Mix