Yivalese -
Glossary Lookup
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2901 words [in 5419 rows] – [+1 new]
Expressions Found: 46 results
Terms Found for 'ti': (634 results)
| Logo | Exp. Logo | IPA | Spoken | Meaning | Uses | |||||||||||||||
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| GDdy |
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Tii | (Grand)Mother | |||||||||||||||||
| 24 | 24[copy] | BiRuu | 24 | This is a common word for a countable repetition. As in Pekken Esbiru Shilferaf Laras! 24 kicks upon the liar! | ||||||||||||||||
| 61 | 61[copy] | Belaane | 61 | Common word for hard to count lenghty process, or multiple reasons for, and the likes. In those cases it’s more pronounced Belano than Belaane | ||||||||||||||||
| DWgn |
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Geneye ti! | A bite to you! | Wishing someone to be hurt for life. It’s considered a curse and to utter this, one really needs to deserve it. | ||||||||||||||||
| YDgn |
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Lasbagen | Accusations | Also mean words, crying in a way that makes the other hurt, any word that “bites” | ||||||||||||||||
| Xbbx |
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Iyappa | Ah! | Scared sound, as a shortened form of an nondescrit imperative | ||||||||||||||||
| YLyw: |
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Eyol | All seeing owl | A vision that has become a staple of knowledge, of an owl with 50 (dec 40) eyes and 24 (dec 20) beaks. Sometimes referred to as Lulun yol. | ||||||||||||||||
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Kellang | Alloy | Material, Mixing metals together to form certain compounds with varying properties. Certain smiths spend a lot of time keeping track of their experiments, and due to the inherent risks of the field, t...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| GBwx |
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Kavnewwakh | Animal head | Acting as an animal | ||||||||||||||||
| NLby |
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Piiner | Annoyance | That which makes the skin itch just by looking, hearing, or smelling it. A piiner makes people angry just by existing in proximity. | ||||||||||||||||
| WYgn |
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Gunwita | Appetite | Devour | ||||||||||||||||
| WYgn |
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Gumita | Appetite | Devour | ||||||||||||||||
| YNxl |
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Or-ol-aal | Apple | Poetic word for apple | ||||||||||||||||
| Glgd |
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Karak-es-s | Artist | Golden hand | ||||||||||||||||
| DLyw |
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-Sull | As said | Anything that is taken for granted based on the current recounting | ||||||||||||||||
| Yllx |
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-Yille | As seen | Stating a fact, but it’s becoming synonymous to -vawn in some context, and to insist one often says -yillevawn. Also tends to denote with an insisted l sound that things are not as they appear. “Gamfe...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| XLdw |
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-altuun | As shared by you | I get this information from what you shared, regardless of what I believe of the truth. | ||||||||||||||||
| Ndlx |
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Neddela | As smelled | Denoting what can be perceived but not verified. | ||||||||||||||||
| Wwxl |
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-wal | As written | In motion, already on its way | ||||||||||||||||
| Bgyglw |
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Pakhklu | Aspic, Gelatin | Food ingredients in soups and the likes | ||||||||||||||||
| Dyyn |
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Siim | At ease | Comfortable, worry-free. “Mba Sim?” Well, at ease? Can be used in multiple contexts. | ||||||||||||||||
| WDnx |
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Otturma | Attachment | Otturmani Esti: I am attached to you. Toma Lei Otturmats? Are you attached to this very house? | ||||||||||||||||
| NYwd |
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Turniba-g | Azalea | Referred to as Love Shroom, it’s a flower that has potent abilities | ||||||||||||||||
| GDldll |
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Kullakhaad | Back and forth hand | Hand going up and backward, then closing back in a fist mimicking the LD image. Towards whoever gets the receiving end of the conversation, across if undescribed | ||||||||||||||||
| DXlg |
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Malista | Bag Staff | Used to carry multiple things with ease, can be a single staff with nooks, or multiple pieces of wood put together, to carry holding from the front and over the shoulder | ||||||||||||||||
| XL. |
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Uulmekk | Balance | Balance, 3rd person, brief event. Also stylus for clay writing. | ||||||||||||||||
| NLxl |
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Nulmek | Balancing stone | Stone(s) that help set something into position | ||||||||||||||||
| LLbg |
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Lhebagee-kh | Bamboo | The plant is not grown close to Yivalkes but trade brings different artifacts from further east | ||||||||||||||||
| BBld |
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Tuska | Bean sieve | To help retain the right sized beans. The same word is used for apprenticeship, where a person is given a certain amount of time to learn before they have to fend for themselves, or find another field...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| YYbb |
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(Febi) | Bean tone | The Bean tone is one of peas in a pod, neutral, a little idiotic but charming too. | ||||||||||||||||
| DDnx |
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Smawn | Beautiful | Like an ornate necklace, or throne. But more usually natural beauties that we want to improve. | ||||||||||||||||
| LNgy |
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Sharennden | Beautiful days | Pleasant, sunny or festive days. For a promise of golden days to come: “Sharennden Shi” | ||||||||||||||||
| GDlwxx |
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Alos felukh-es-s | Beautiful soul | |||||||||||||||||
| GYyd |
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Shayadho | Beckoning, Calling | As if by the heaven, also understanding of one’s destiny, making sense of fate, and the likes. Shayadhwin, Shayadhwets, Shayadhwerh: I have beckoned, You have beckoned, They have beckoned. Shayadhini,...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| BY. |
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Fisaa | Bee | Used as a verb, to bee means to make a difference, to work, to respect order, overall being a functional member of society. Also the root word for the bee is used logographically for trinkets, so a be...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| BYgn |
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Fisagen | Bee sting | |||||||||||||||||
| BDwxBByx |
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Penkreshaay | Being late | Chasing Farm time | ||||||||||||||||
| Blyx |
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-Freyee | Beyond | Nanuppeefreye: Nightwalk - till the morning | ||||||||||||||||
| WN. |
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Sawn | Big Birds | Big Birds, flocks, magistrate authorities | ||||||||||||||||
| LDbgwy |
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WiiLuubakh | Bird Hour | Each bird hour lasts 22.5 minutes, and there are 8 in a Strong hour during the equinox. Bird hours do not change over the course of the year, but how many there are in a strong hour does. At spring th...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| GDgdlbwydx |
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Khaad Lawita | Bird Mouth hands | Two hands in a bird beak shape near the mouth, with a frown and insisting eyes, meaning to shut it, especially if told once already. | ||||||||||||||||
| &1 | &1[copy] | Witanin | Bird to the star | The smallest bird in the stars, representing the crescent and its slow return to the night sky. It's where nice things are best enjoyed, and usually has a pretty friendly vibe to it. It's also a perfect period for the loom. | ||||||||||||||||
| Gndl |
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Ganda-l | Bite | Not bitten per se, more like stung hence the dal marker due to how it looks like a stinger. Used in phrases like “Dusan Pezfisa Ganda” You definitely have been bitten by the walking bee. | ||||||||||||||||
| DLln |
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Teran | Blessing | Another writing is DxLn | ||||||||||||||||
| WXgw |
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Korukaa | Boar | Great hunting animal, but also great danger if one is unprepared. When doing a complex task, one somehow calls upon the boar to focus. As such, it's become the same word for a target when using bow an...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| BXbn |
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Ma | Boat with sails | Imported terms, Navigation term for the boat proper | ||||||||||||||||
| BXbn |
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Kalu | Boat with sails | Imported terms, Navigation term for the boat proper | ||||||||||||||||
| BXbn |
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Kikkul | Boat with sails | Imported terms, Navigation term for the boat proper | ||||||||||||||||
| WXxl |
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Ashta | Bones | Used for multiple purposes, including tilling, writing | ||||||||||||||||
| GLwylw |
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LuuSpar | Brass | Material, Imported word but denoting a difference in malleability. Mountain copper as a calque from Greek is another word for it | ||||||||||||||||
| NGbbgl |
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Bagee-r | Bread | Also dough. To distinguish, one can say Asbageer for cooked, and Lubageer for the dough, or Flun though this is a newish word and is mainly used for wet dough rather that the creamy one. | ||||||||||||||||
| GDgdlb |
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Khaddeluuv | Breath hand | One hand to the mouth, flat and palm to the cheek, usually with a tilt of the head. I did not understand what you said. | ||||||||||||||||
| WL. |
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Waraas | Brick | Brick, Street, Tall buildings, Cities, Construction work | ||||||||||||||||
| NLwl |
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Nuura | Brick hole | Intended or not, an absent brick gets noticed pretty quickly | ||||||||||||||||
| LDll |
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Kulla | Bridge, Span of days | Corridor of time, or bridge. Instead of referring to a deadline, people use the idea of a bridge to say the thing has to be done within the span of that bridge. | ||||||||||||||||
| YWbd |
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Podu | Brought info | “It came to one’s attention that” | ||||||||||||||||
| YLnylx |
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Maare | Brown | Colour, With a tinge of green | ||||||||||||||||
| NLlb |
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Khanalf | Buck toothed | Somewhat pejorative | ||||||||||||||||
| NWyn |
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Num | Bud, cutie | |||||||||||||||||
| GYld |
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Booballos | Buffalo etc. | Infantry is often referred to with that word. Also important in geometry when referring to translation. Eating buffalo: lots. | ||||||||||||||||
| GYld |
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Bovlos | Buffalo etc. | Infantry is often referred to with that word. Also important in geometry when referring to translation. Eating buffalo: lots. | ||||||||||||||||
| DLnl |
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-iluni | Bunch | Replaces the last vowel if there is any, sometimes the last syllable too. Turns the previous word into a mass | ||||||||||||||||
| LGbd |
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DomessKappa-l | Bundle | The collection of item a person without a home transports with them, or leave in a safe place | ||||||||||||||||
| LGgbBGlb |
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Kappalobba | Bundle speak | Getting things done by showing the bundle, to mean there will be payment in exchange | ||||||||||||||||
| LLlw |
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Lhelu | Canals | Also any other form of artificial irrigation and water divertion like aqueducts and the likes. | ||||||||||||||||
| BDbn |
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Bena-pp | Cannot move | Legs are hurting, they feel like mush | ||||||||||||||||
| Bglg |
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Bagembal | Carrying stick | |||||||||||||||||
| DDgb |
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- | Causer | Is not pronounced when ending a word, simply means that the word is a causing entity, a god, a noble, etc. | ||||||||||||||||
| DDgb |
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Desgaf | Causer | A sitting head | ||||||||||||||||
| Xggy |
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Eekhii | Chair | Eko/Eku was the word for horse, now the word was replaced, and this root is used mainly for riding, or for things that look like horses, like a chair or a catapult. So Ekhi is used for sitting, but al...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| WLbglb |
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Pikelba | Chatting deck | A short form would be stick bird. | ||||||||||||||||
| Wgxg |
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Uzhek | Chilling horse | Lifting hooves (or feet) from the floor, due to how cold it is | ||||||||||||||||
| NNwx |
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Snawwem | Chimney | The pet on the roof. Brick laying has lead to proper insulation and heating of multi-level houses | ||||||||||||||||
| LYgg |
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Tsharoli | Clean after washroom duties | |||||||||||||||||
| LYgg |
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Kokhli | Clean after washroom duties | |||||||||||||||||
| LYlg |
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Liimbale-g | Clear baggage | Cleaning one’s bundle, making sense of one’s possessions, tossing expired foods; Clarifying one’s expectations with a travel buddy, shunning someone | ||||||||||||||||
| GNnd |
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Gnanaa-t | Cleft lip | As opposed to the common practice in the further area where babies born with difformities were left to die, the region sees births are sacred and a blessing. | ||||||||||||||||
| Ydnn |
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Yasnoom | Cloak | Cloaks carry a perceived magical property and because of that are sewn with different patterns bringing command, protection, diligence, and the likes. As well, it is becoming increasingly common to pu...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| LggnlwBnGw |
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Lupenngu | Clock setter | Water chaser. Written with the full word for Clock maker, but no one has time to say Lashkahlupengu | ||||||||||||||||
| BN. |
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Fennaa | Cloth | Cloth, textile, apparatus, presentation | ||||||||||||||||
| BNxn |
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FenDaaya-l | Cloth knots | Wanted or not, the right one or not, cloth knots are an important part of the culture especially for travelling, but also for festivities. There is a whole lot of words that can come off of putting cl...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| GLyy |
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Dzhil | Coin | Specifically also the pronunciation Dzhil | ||||||||||||||||
| BDlg |
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Sampezhal | Collection | The pride of errands | ||||||||||||||||
| LG. |
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Mbaal-ag | Collection | Collect, Gather, Baskets | ||||||||||||||||
| WNyl |
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Saagon | Colourful bird | Lawmaker, colourful personalities, people who like to dress colourfully | ||||||||||||||||
| Lwng |
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Lunke | Concoction | Water soup. Any type of concoction. | ||||||||||||||||
| YLyb |
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Yellsiffa | Confabulation | Sewing with the eye | ||||||||||||||||
| XWxlnn |
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Arrannu | Conjunction | Star behind | ||||||||||||||||
| WDng |
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Tuurenke | Consequence of love | Change of living situation, Duty of care for someone, Change of future plans, Habits modified, and so on | ||||||||||||||||
| NNny |
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Nillan | Constellation | |||||||||||||||||
| WNnn |
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Nanusawn | Constellation of birds | When birds migrate, they make a flying constellation | ||||||||||||||||
| DNwl |
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Uuldoma | Constructed area | Area that is not wild. Uldomma includes hunting grounds and gardened areas. | ||||||||||||||||
| Wwwl |
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Waaruu | Construction | |||||||||||||||||
| DNdd |
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Tezzom | Control | Originally the house of the mayor, but became the general word for control, and is used for levers and other high intentional impact from small directive change. | ||||||||||||||||
| DNdd |
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Tesdooma | Control | Originally the house of the mayor, but became the general word for control, and is used for levers and other high intentional impact from small directive change. | ||||||||||||||||
| WNgy |
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Tuzhaa | Cormorant | To swim, Cold water, Eating fish. This word is fairly common for what feels like unrelated things, but really it's "Doing like the cormorant". Eating fish even for this port town is seen as an odd thi...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| Bglxyl |
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Pakkrayil | Counting stick | Walking stick with marks that help calculate | ||||||||||||||||
| NGwb |
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Uubol | Cow Cheese | Preserving milk is an artisan's task that smells a fair bit, so a task that is awesome but sort of marks the person who does it is one's Uubol. It becomes the duty by whiff. One recognizes a diplomat ...[more] | ||||||||||||||||
| LWwb |
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Felu | Cow Milk | Due to the common practice in anointment on the forehead for people in positions of leadership, to remind them of the importance of respecting life especially of the younger ones, it also has come to mean Newly Crowned. | ||||||||||||||||
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Gevvirtadaa | Creations | Ingenuity, also referred to as Alosoy, Of the thought spirit. |
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