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reKorok DesEKAtEThe Book of Puzzles

Mysterium 2005D’ni Linguistic Fellowship

reKorok DesEKAtE

The Book of PuzzlesMysterium 2005

Shorah and welcome to Mysterium 2005 in Chicago! It’s been a blast creating this packet, and we hope you have just as much fun playing the games and puzzles as we had making them! The puzzles range in difficulty but require no previous knowledge of D’ni – all the information you need to complete the packet is included right here. If you’re new to the D’ni language, you might want to read through the reference materials, starting on page 14, before you jump in. There’s a lot of useful information there to help you understand and complete the puzzles within.

A word about us: the D’ni Linguistic Fellowship is an open community of students, scholars, teachers, and explorers with a common passion for the languages of the D’ni and their many Ages. We foster an open learning environment for all to come and explore their linguistic interests. Recent projects include the Bahroglyph Study Group and Rehchoortahn D’nee, a D’ni language textbook. For more information, check out our website at http://linguists.bahro.com.

Have a fantastic Mysterium!

The D’ni Linguistic Fellowship

Acrostic by Domahreh 3

Crest of Gehn by Yohshee 4

Word Morph Forest by Gadren 5

Letter Ladders by MystRivenExile 6

Magic Square of D’ni by VAXJedi 6

The Mangree Code by mellonath 7

Subterra Crossword by MystRivenExile 8

Transliteration Grids by mellonath 9

Kadish Word Game by Renoah 9

Linguist’s Cartography by Domahreh 10

Trivia Counting Game by Renoah 11

Path of the Shell by Domahreh 11

Wordfind by mellonath 12

Jumble by MystRivenExile 13

Phil’s Puzzle by Domahreh 13

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The Book of Puzzles DLF - Mysterium 2005

Acrostic

Find an answer (in D’ni) for each of the clues below that fits into the allowed spaces. Then, using the numbers below each letter, fill in the crossword grid to reveal an encoded message from the D’ni Linguistic Fellowship!

Please proceed quickly to the nearest exit in a calm and _________ fashion.

An ancient civilization.

Said the young writers guildsman to his master, “You _______ us in the Art.”

The people of Riven make offerings at the foot of a whark ________.

Explorer: “Can I use my relto book?”DRC: “Certainly you can – whether you ______ is a different story altogether.”

All too often, conflicts become a matter of us versus _________.

If you belong to Aitrus’ guild, you _______ Ages to determine their layout and conditions.

The sound of (enforcing) silence.

The sound of good food.

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 5 4 20 8 31 6 ___ ___ ___ ___ 3 18 11 16

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 19 24 25 9 13 35

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 34 23 1 22 15

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 28 10 32 2 30

___ ___ ___ 33 29 17

___ ___ ___ ___ 7 21 26 14

___ 12 ___ 27

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The Crest of Gehn

The Crest of Gehn has five petals extending from a center pentagon, and five triangular spaces between each petal. Each of the clues below will result in a D’ni word that can be fitted into the Crest: the first and last letters of each word are written on two adjacent petals, the middle letter(s) in the triangular space that connects them. When correctly placed, all of the answer words will overlap to form a chain around the center. To reveal the final word, take all the letters on the petals, plus one additional letter to be written in the center pentagon, and unscramble them to answer the clue.

Petal Chain clues

You’re working late at night on your computer on a paper that’s due at 8am the next morning. You haven’t saved in the last 3 hours. All of a sudden you get a sinking feeling when you see the words FATAL ___________ appear on your monitor. Not you, not me, not us, but ________. You count sheep when you just can’t ____________. Of course, this rarely works. When your boss drops a figurative ton of bricks on your desk, and you’ve already got a pile of work with deadlines quickly approaching, you totally just got the ________. What you get when a big rock from who knows where hits the ground really, really hard.

Final Word clue It’s a place that Atrus and friends linked to.

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Word Morph Forest

Starting from the roots, work your way up the tree to the crown, changing one D’ni letter per step. Each step will result in a valid D’ni word, which will be used only once in the same tree.

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Letter Ladders

Use the clues to find a D’ni word for each rung of the ladders below. Like the clues themselves, each set of seven D’ni words will form a letter ladder: a sequence of words where the last letter of each rung is the same as the first letter of the next rung. When you’ve completed all four ladders, take the first and last letter of each ladder, in order, and write them in the blanks below to reveal the hidden word!

Extreme partTenNeighborhood, big gatheringGets a job in oneEarth that’s molten hotTalksStructurally sound

You and I togetherRapid blazeEither this one or ___ oneExtension on a bird for flightToxinNewest and first versionNext

SleepsScratch, in terms of amountsSupreme endDry“You’re welcome” sayingGenuineExpressing aid

“That’s what all of ___ are”Existing in this spotTruelove of someoneEndorseEveryone or ___ ___Superb films gets ____ starsSee and understand

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ u ___

Magic Square of D’ni

Along with ahyoheek, another favorite game of the D’ni was the Magic Square. Below are nine D’ni words of varying lengths. Place them in the magic square, one word per square, so that the number of D’ni letters in each row, column, and main diagonal (from corner to corner) equals the Magic Number.

a fa Kor pråDtAgan rilDil DevoKan

DereTenE na’grenisMagic Number: %

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The Mangree Code

Achenar always knew those mangrees were a smart bunch. But he never knew just how smart. One day, they stole the notebook in which he’d been recording their behavior and vocal patterns. Soon after, mysterious markings began appearing all over the forests of Haven, markings that bore a striking resemblance to Achenar’s notes! It seems the mangrees have developed an alphabet – see if you can figure out their code and decipher their latest message.

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Subterra Crossword

Use the clues below to fill in the crossword. The underlying image will reflect your answers – as the crossword digs deeper and deeper into the earth, the answers will change accordingly to reflect their surroundings!

DOWN ACROSS

1 Column 2 Flora5 Halite, a form of NaCl 3 Gehn’s need for books7 Life’s necessity 4 Creating a building9 Archaeologist’s process 6 Top of10 It’s as hard as a ______ 8 Guildsman of Stonemasons in Book of D’ni12 A Golden bridge on the Pacific 9 Home to bats and bears14 Igneous, black rock 11 An Island of Riven16 What a meteorite impact leaves 13 Earth is one17 Makes floors and statues 15 Lines D’ni tunnels18 Bottom of the problem, or the hair 17 Artificial, strong, lightweight stone used in Maintainer’s suits19 A cake can have seven 20 The way to D’ni is a maze of these20 Chemicals put into a test ______ 21 Everyone’s favorite Empire22 Mine or Elevator ______ 23 Comprised of dirt

24 Vitamin and ______25 Inside the volcano

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Transliteration Grids

Each grid is followed by a word box. Transliterate each of the words in the word box, so they fit into the grid. The shaded column will reveal a hidden word when you have transliterated correctly, in the correct positions!

xavanDereTenEhevKorDovanavagiDanotam

emElenacArilDilDa’Kolasa

enDAsOgiziTonpalcUrbaxana

KelanEbigtolonziTpabOv’ja

gestOminyESavotarsevna’grenis

Kadish Word Game

Guildmaster Kadish hid his treasures away from prying eyes and greedy hands with a sequence of massive puzzles, all hinging on one theme: what was missing, what wasn’t there. This puzzle was found in the vault where Kadish’s treasures were stored, perhaps an amusement to fill the Guildmaster’s last hours. Each of the words below is missing one letter. Using the clue to help you, add the missing letter to each word to make a new D’ni word. Then take the letters and unscramble them to name a helpful object for exploring Kadish Tolesa.

nE ___________ (obtain)

rUn ___________ (round and hollow)

ano ___________ (lasts forever)

torn ___________ (a kind of measure)

lon ___________ (lift)

ga ___________ (even yet)

rem ___________ (a direction)

te ___________ (uncomplicated) ___________ (a few)

What would’ve been helpful to have while exploring Kadish Tolesa?

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Linguist’s Cartography

An old Linguists Guild map was recently uncovered that uses letters to determine latitude and longitude. There seems to be a message encoded into the map! Use the clues below to fill in the blank spaces. Then, from the letters of the answer word, find the alphabetical (horizontal) and (vertical) location of nine coordinates on the map. Write down the letter of the 5x5 block within which each coordinate is located (the value of tells you whether the letter should be accented or not). The resulting phrase will explain what the map depicts.

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1. archaeologist’s work __ __ __ __ __ __ 2 3 1

2. travel, by the book __ __ __ 1 2 1

3. centuries old __ __ __ __ __ 1 4 0

4. fahseefah less heegahbree __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 7 4 1

5. wanderer’s guide __ __ __ __ __ __ 1 3 1

6. pluckers __ __ __ __ __ 3 1 0

7. along with losing, better to... __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 3 5 1

8. animal, vegetable, ... __ __ __ __ __ 4 5 1

9. every journey is a series of... __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 5 7 0

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Trivia Counting Game

How good is your D’ni trivia? Each line below is a bit of D’ni lore that involves a number. For each line, write in the D’ni number that completes the phrase. Then, circle that letter out of the row of twenty-five D’ni letters below. The circled letters will spell a word that completes the D’ni sentence at the bottom.

___ leStEok gen

___ bUgintE drawn on pråDtE in Riven

___ major teltE

___ vIlEtE in one har

___ rovtE named Atrus

___ rovtE on the family ter t’tomana

x c O n u r p m z l a K s b D y h n t j f S T v A

.Kenen ram b’____________ DesEKAtE

Path of the Shell

The gathered will tell the path of the shell – but can you complete the shell’s puzzle? There are three series of clues, Outer, Middle, and Inner, one for each concentric spiral. The answers to these clues, when written into the three paths, spiral all into the center. The shaded bands radiating out from the center also have clues to help you out. Once the paths and shaded bands are all filled in, a last letter can be placed in the half-circle so as to spell a final D’ni word crossing from the center back out to the starting point.

Outer Path 1. mistake 2. unmoving 3. post and box 4. dirt-burrower

Middle Path 1. very last 2. volcanic rock 3. chamberlain title

Gray Stripes prepared in one’s possession, on one’s... functionally need bona fide rihl khoy gah pahm…

Inner Path 1. useful ability 2. Aitrus guild 3. hee-less seventeen

Final clueAtrus’ grandmother, Anna, was given a D’ni name,

reflecting her ability to tell a good...

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Wordfind

How many D’ni words can you find in the grid below? Words are hidden horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.

r e m a S e y a v o j p w m i S t a i p

a S l t e r O f g a y o r å e m l k a v

m h e t o n m g x a A p D i v i m e r K

c e U K o r m a n K l h a o n l z E b r

t v a t f s u O n r a p o v n e D e r o

x K i t a m m A s l m e o e a E n r O u

a o x r e y D o v a b r c r b e p s A S

D r n l U s O y g r l s i k x a n o o v

e a i t x r w a E e g f a l E i o r k o

r n z l K o t n t U g E n m a O a u g l

e A g T r d i n t e s i f e i j n a v a

T D e l i o p D i U m r l e l e p å U u

e r s o l m v O w h n E A o s E S o r v

n w t t n s e l a n e r U r s u K K O p

E s O f l o h m E r K d A h O T v a b r

A E f i p n r a z l e D w y r c x s p e

U t k å l a n e U n n x d S l U a t e n

D n i e l n b v f e y K p x U n U r A i

s a O t b i y O g r T x a v a n m h u v

a D e s E K A d x t E y n o g l a n U å

abxE man Sora

axU melin tagam

DantE merK telrov

DereTenE min ten

DesEKA miSta ter

Dova nava tes

eDer noref tiwa

enDA oglan tor

galpo pabO tren

gestO pilel UnrA

gilo preniv vola

hev prin xano

hevKor ram xoiD

KElen rema xUnU

Ken rilrov xavan

Korman roSE yavo

Kro sel zU

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Jumble

Unscramble the eight D’ni words below and write the letters into the grid below each word. Then, take the circled letters and rearrange them to discover bonus phrase that completes the caption beneath the cartoon!

ramnet afES aKlEne

ancOal eSton daromD

rovKak est Bonus Phrase

Members of the guild of ______ were quite

confused…

Phil’s Puzzle

When the DRC left the D’ni cavern, they also left a few basic systems intact and functional, remotely accessible from the surface. Recently, the neighborhood Visitor list has been showing some strange activity. Phil Henderson has returned! Even stranger, the hood is reporting his visits in D’ni time, not surface time. Instead of hours : minutes, it’s now gahrtahvo : tahvo. There are five gahrtahvotee in the D’ni day – the first three are daylight, the last two are nighttime. Each gahrtahvo is comprised of twenty-five tahvotee, thus there are one hundred twenty-five tahvotee in a D’ni day. Phil has also left behind a mysterious note – perhaps it can help explain his strange visits!

Cavern to Surface Comm.DRC Neighborhood (03)--PRINTOUT--

From: SystemTo: Visitors, Visiteurs, Besucher

03/09/61 1:11 Phil Henderson 03/10/61 1:10 Phil Henderson 03/10/61 3:09 Phil Henderson * 03/10/61 5:02 Phil Henderson * 03/11/61 1:07 Phil Henderson 03/11/61 2:16 Phil Henderson 03/12/61 1:06 Phil Henderson 03/13/61 1:05 Phil Henderson 03/13/61 1:09 Phil Henderson * 03/13/61 4:07 Phil Henderson * 03/14/61 1:20 Phil Henderson 03/15/61 1:07 Phil Henderson 03/15/61 2:10 Phil Henderson 03/16/61 1:24 Phil Henderson

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D’ni Transliteration

Since D’ni is written with a different character set than English, a system for transliteration, for rendering D’ni characters and sounds using Roman letters, is needed. Most D’ni linguists use one of two transliteration systems. Many use the Old Transliteration System (OTS), which spells out the sounds of each character using one or more standard Roman letters. Others use the New Transliteration System (NTS), which maps each D’ni character to a single Roman or phonetic letter so as to avoid ambiguous transliterations. Below is a table of the D’ni alphabet and punctuation marks, with transliteration conventions for both OTS and NTS, and an explanation of how each D’ni sound is pronounced, as best we currently understand it. For those familiar with the International Phoenetic Alphabet (IPA), the IPA’s symbol for each sound is also included.

D’ni OTS NTS IPA Sounds like… D’ni OTS NTS IPA Sounds like…

v v v v voice, five m m m m man, lemon

b b b b bad, lab T th þ T think, both

t t t t tea, get d dh ð D this, mother

s s s s sun, miss D d d d dog, lady

S sh š S she, crash h h h h how, hello

j j j dZ just, large o o o o go, home

g g g g give, flag O oy ó oi boy, join

y y y j yes, yellow c ch ç tS check, church

k kh x x Bach, German doch w w w w wet, weather

K k k k cat, truck u u(h) u cup, luck

a ah a arm, father U oo ú u blue, food

I I á i five, eye x ts c ts acts, bets

f f f f find, if l l l l leg, little

p p p p pet, map å a æ Q bat, black

i i(h) i I hit, kitten z z z z zoo, lazy

E ee í i see, heat n n n n no, ten

e e(h) e E met, bed

A ai é e say, eight ’ ’ ’ , / away, cinema

r r r RNo English equivalent; between madder and matter, a “flipped” r

. . . Punctuation indicating beginning of sentence

As you can see from the above table, the D’ni alphabet doesn’t follow the same order as it does in English. There is a well-founded logic behind its order, however. If you look carefully at the D’ni characters, you’ll notice that they occur in five groups of five letters with the same base (not counting accented forms), giving us twenty-five basic characters. The D’ni number system also divides into groups of five, and has twenty-five basic digits. In fact, as one linguist observed, the letters look remarkably like the numbers if they are written smoothly, without their bounding boxes:

’ v t s j 0 1 2 3 4

y k a f i 5 6 7 8 9

e r m T d ) ! @ # $

h o c w u % ^ & * (

x l å z n [ ] \ { }

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Basics of D’ni Grammar

Word orderD’ni is a Subject-Verb-Object language, like English. This means that a D’ni sentence always begins with a subject,

which is followed by a verb, and then any objects that the verb acts upon. For example, the English sentence Atrus writes the book (Atrus=subject, writes=verb, the book=object) is written in D’ni as Atrus selen reKor ( Atrus=subject, selen=verb, reKor=object).

Adjectives and adverbs usually follow the word they modify, which is opposite the way they appear in English. In English we say small rock, while in D’ni we say pråD prin; in English we say writes well, while in D’ni we say selen ago

Suffixes D’ni relies heavily on suffixes to do a number of important things, much like English. To change a noun from singular to plural, we add an –s in English (word becomes words); in D’ni, we add a –tE (hev becomes hevtE). We can also use suffixes to change between parts of speech. Below is a table explaining some of these basic suffixes:

D’ni suffix Converts between… English equivalent suffix English example D’ni example

–tav verb noun -ance, -ment, -tion, -ing, -th

begin becomes beginning

glo becomes glotav

–tan verb person -er, -or, -ant work becomes worker

tEg becomes tEgtan

–ex nounadjective -ic, -ous, -al, -ive, -y

nature becomes natural

vog becomes vogex

–( e)T adjective noun -ity, -ness brave becomes braveness

Kera becomes KeraT

–( e)S adjective adverb -ly simple becomes simply

ten becomes teneS

Verbs Verbs also use suffixes to refer back to and agree with the subject. In English, we only add a suffix to the verb when the subject is he, she, or it (I live becomes he lives with an added –s). Romance languages like Spanish, French, and Italian have suffixes for all three persons, both singular and plural. D’ni follows the same pattern. The table below lists the D’ni verb suffixes:

Singular Plural

1st person (I) no suffix – et 1st person (we)

2nd person (you) – em –tE 2nd person (you all)

3rd person (he, she, it, Atrus, etc.) – en –Et

3rd person (they, Atrus and Katran, etc.)

Let’s look at the verb xav, live, to see how these suffixes work. I live would simply be xav; the absence of a suffix is what clues us into the fact that it’s a 1st person singular verb. You live would be xavem. He lives would be xaven. Proper nouns, like names of people, also take a 3rd person singular verb, so Atrus lives would be Atrus xaven. We live is xavet, you all live is xavtE, and they live is xavEt. As with the 3rd person singular verbs, 3rd person plural verbs may also take proper nouns for a subject when they refer to two or more people. That is, Atrus and Katran live would be Atrus ga Katran xavEt.

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The Book of Puzzles DLF - Mysterium 2005Tense Similar to how D’ni uses suffixes to tell us about the person and number of a verb, it uses prefixes to tell us about the tense of the verb – that is, whether the action the verb describes takes place in the past, present, or the future. There is no exact equivalent for this in English, which uses both spelling changes (she wrote) and additional words called auxiliaries (she will write) to distinguish past and future tenses from the present tense (she writes). In D’ni, the root of the verb never changes; instead, prefixes are attached to the front of the verb to indicate the tense, as explained in the table below.

D’ni prefix English example D’ni example

Future bo– he will write boselen

Present no prefix he writes selen

Past Ko– he wrote Koselen

Regardless of what the suffix of a verb is, adding bo– or Ko– in front of that verb will always change its tense from present to future or past, respectively. Other prefixes are used in combination with these basic tenses to form more complex tenses. Do–, for example, forms the progressive (she is writing) while le– forms the perfect (I have written).

Contractions In English, we sometimes shorten a phrase into a single word because it is so frequently used. Does not becomes doesn’t, of the clock becomes o’clock, I am becomes I’m. These words are called contractions, because they shorten the long phrase into a single word, usually replacing one or more letters with an apostrophe. D’ni does the same thing. In fact, D’ni is a contraction of the phrase “new start.” Most frequently, contractions happen with prepositions, those little words that link together parts of a sentence, like with (te), from (me), for (ke), to (be). When contracted, the preposition is attached to the beginning of the next word and its e is replaced with an apostrophe ( ’). For example, in time would be written t’gor; to learn would be written b’cUr; for them would be written k’Est. When there is a the ( re) in between the preposition and the next word, the apostrophe is discarded altogether. From the ground would therefore be written mregalon.

Numbers Many of you will be familiar with the number system of D’ni; did you know, though, that every digit has a number word? And that these number words mirror the logic behind the number system? The numbers zero through four are all simple words:

rUn fa brE sen tor 0 1 2 3 4

Multiples of five are also simple words:

vat nAvU hEbor riS 5 10 15 20

To fill in the numbers in between, each multiple is abbreviated into its first two letters, then combined with one through four to reach the desired amount. Thus, six is vagafa, five and one; fourteen is nAgator, ten and four; seventeen hEgabrE, fifteen and two; and twenty-three rigasen, twenty and three. If you remember how D’ni digits are formed, you’ll see that the words consistently mirror the overlapping elements that make up each digit. The number word for twenty-five is fasE.

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Useful D’ni Words

D’NI OTS NTS P.O.S ENGLISH

a ah a particle grammar: marks material direct object

abxE ahbtsee abcí n basalt

anE ahnee aní v get

ano ahno ano n water

anotam ahnotahm anotam adj magmatic

ave ahveh ave n error

axU ahtsoo acú adj ready

bAk baikh béx v link

baxana bahtsahnah bacana n map

be beh be prep to

biSta bihshtah bišta n tunnel

brE bree brí adj two

brUn broon brún n tube

bUgin boogihn búgin n creature

cA chai çé n fault

cil chihl çil adj main

cir chihr çir n organism

cOlanA choylahnai çólané v complete

cUr choor çúr v learn

Da’Ko dah’ko da’ko n marble

DantE dahntee dantí n tweezers

DereTenE dehrehthehnee dereþení n an artificially produced, jet black, lightweight stone

DesEKA dehseekay desíké n puzzle, enigma

DevoKan dehvokahn devokan n hope

DOha doyhah dóha n machine

Dormad dormahdh dormað v defeat

Dova dovah dova n world

eDer ehdehr eder v sleep

elon ehlon elon v raise

erem ehrehm erem n skill

erT ehrth erþ art a, an

emE ehmee emí v decide(?), win(?)

enDA ehndai endé v build(?)

Est eest íst pron them

fa fah fa n one

fasE fahsee fasí n twenty-five

fena fehnah fena n story

ferem fehrehm ferem adj dry

flin flihn flin n order

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The Book of Puzzles DLF - Mysterium 2005D’NI OTS NTS P.O.S ENGLISH

ga gah ga conj and

galon gahlon galon n ground

galpo gahlpo galpo n cave

gan gahn gan n empire

gartavo gahrtahvo gartavo n approximately six hour period

gaT gahth gaþ adv still

gestO gehstoy gestó n art

giD gihd gid v excavate

gilo gihlo gilo n plant

glo glo glo v begin

gormot gormot gormot adv then

har hahr har n approximately one year

hEbor heebor híbor adj fifteen

hev hehv hev n word

hevKor hevkor hevkor n lexicon

irvån ihrvån irvæn n mineral

Kag kahg kag adj original

Kam kahm kam pron what

ke kheh xe prep for

KelanE kehlahnee kelaní n antelope

KElen keelehn kílen n step

kO khoy xó adv if

KUan kooahn kúan n stream

Kor kor kor n book

Korman kormahn korman n Descriptive Book

Korvak korvahkh korvax n Linking Book

Koxa kotsah koca n gate

Kro kro kro v move

lasa lahsah lasa v seal

lem lehm lem n ink

leS lehsh leš n rule

lon lon lon v discover

man mahn man n existence

marent mahrehnt marent v follow

marg mahrg marg n layer

melin mehlihn melin adj outer

mer mehr mer v watch

merK mehrk merk n poisoned water

mes mehs mes v require

mEs mees mís v speak

met meht met adj, pron this

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me’Ur mehoor meúr phrase you’re welcome

min mihn min n woman

miSta mihshtah mišta v construct

m’la m’lah m’la n lizard

mot mot mot pron that, which

nA nai né n root

na’grenis nah’grehnihs na’grenis adj brittle

nara nahrah nara n artificial stone 30x the density and strength of steel

nava nahvah nava n master

nAvU naivoo névú adj ten

nE nee ní adj new, fresh, blank

noref norehf noref adj final

oglan oglahn oglan adj ancient

ok okh ox prep of

pabO pahboy pabó v bless

pal pahl pal adv anyway(?), must(?), please(?)

pam pahm pam conj or

para pahrah para adj great

pax pahts pac n city

pilel pihlehl pilel v receive

pråD pråd præd n rock

preniv prehnihv preniv adv once again

prin prihn prin adj small

ram rahm ram adj good

re reh re art the

rem rehm rem v flow

rema rehmah rema n east

rEs rees rís v eat

ril rihl ril adv not

rilDil rihldihl rildil n nothing

rilrov rihlrov rilrov n no one

riS rihsh riš n twenty

robot robot robot adj actual

roSE roshee roší n crater

rov rov rov n person

rUb roob rúb conj but

rUn roon rún n zero

SafE shahfee šafí n span, approximately equal to 13 1/3 feet

sel sehl sel v write

sen sehn sen n three

Sento shehnto šento v take

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set seht set pron us

sev sehv sev n age

sOgi soygih sógi adj stable

SemtE shehmtee šemtí pron you (plural)

SokO shokhoo šoxú v instruct

Sora shorah šora n peace (used as a greeting or farewell)

SutEjU shuhteejoo šutíjú n rocksalt

tag tahg tag v give

tagam tahgahm tagam v know

tAgan taigahn tégan v love

talEo tahleeo talío n surface

tam tahm tam n fire

tAr tair tér v help

tavo tahvo tavo n approximately fifteen minute period

te teh te prep of, by, as, with, in, at, near

ti’ana tih’ahnah ti’ana n storyteller

tEg teeg tíg v work

tel tehl tel n guild

telrov tehlrov telrov n guildsman

ten tehn ten adj simple

ter tehr ter n tree

tes tehs tes n group

tiwa tihwah tiwa n shaft

tomet tomeht tomet n here

tor tor tor n four

toran torahn toran n unit of angular elevation, equal to .00576 degrees

torn torn torn v spit

tren trehn tren adj several

trom trom trom n wing

tUl tool túl v grow

ugrat uhgraht ugrat n pillar, totem

UK ook úk v survey

Ulba oolbah úlba n office

UnrA oonrai únré n lord

UrU ooroo úrú n large gathering of people, grand community

vak vaht vat n five

vIlE vIlee válí n approximatly five week period

vola volah vola adv yes

votar votahr votar v praise

v’ja v’ja v’ja n celebration

xan tsahn can adv always

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xano tsahno cano adj eternal

xav tsahv cav v live

xavan tsahvahn cavan adj immortal

xoiD tsoihd coid v glow

xUnU tsoonoo cúnú v greet

yavo yahvo yavo n Yahvo, the Maker (D’ni deity)

yeret yehreht yeret aux v may

yertis yehrtihs yertis n a small Rivenese plant with poisonous, yellow berries

ziT zihth ziþ adv low

ziTon zihthon ziþon v lower

zU zoo zú n me

mysterium 2005 d’ni linguistic...

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