Assai Language/Lexicon

Main Article: Assai Language. See also: Proto-Kai/Lexicon.

Aa

• Á (animate noun), love, compassion.
• aié (irregular verb), to happen, to occur. From Proto-Kai erja(?), meaning 'to be'. Conjugation as follows:

Conjugation of aié.

Pronoun	Conjugation
eís	ai
kó	i
et	ei
utse	aié
te	ai
téc	ei
uci	aié

• Amir (animate noun), friend. From Proto-Kai emyrež, meaning 'companion' or 'fellow'.
• áʃ (preposition), without.
• áʃé (regular verb), to lose, to misplace
• Áʃer (inanimate noun), loss, grief.
• áʃmeru (adjective), alone, by oneself.
• áʃté (reflexive verb), to forget.

Bb

• beáko (adjective), important, vital, paramount, essential.
• bétaré (regular verb), to know (something), to be sure (of something).

Cc

• Cate (inanimate noun), 'three.

Dd

• Deru (animate noun), man, husband. From Proto-Kai džery, meaning 'man'.
• Des (inanimate noun), two.
• desu (conjunction), because, as, therefore, thus, hence. Unknown etymology, potentially from Old Kai dus, meaning therefore.
• Dzei (animate noun), table.

Ðð

• Ðarus (inanimate noun), circle, ring, circumference of a hole.

Ee

• Ebéta (inanimate noun), woman, wife. From Proto-Kai žjebetša, meaning 'woman'.
• Eirak (animate noun), king, emperor. From Proto-Kai gäräky, meaning 'chief'.
• Eirakikóru (animate noun), kingdom. From eirak, Old Assai for 'king', and -ikóru, meaning 'state'.
• Ékíai (inanimate noun), tree. From Proto-Kai Jókäráj, meaning 'oak'. Cognates: Kai: käj.
• Emar (animate noun), name, title. From Proto-Kai Jamärá, meaning 'name'. Cognates: Kai: Amori.
• -er (affix), -ness (makes an adjective or preposition into a noun).
• Etþar (animate noun), party, gathering, celebration, festival.
• Etserikóru (animate noun), republic. From Etser, derived from the name Renoś Estrier, a Pashrani philosopher and founder of the Estrianist school of thought, and -ikóru, meaning 'state' or 'kingdom'.

Ff

• Feiár (inanimate noun), iron. From Proto-Kai fyrdzinjä, meaning 'fire metal'.
• Feér (animate noun), goodness, pleasantness, agreeableness.
• feó (adjective), good, well, pleasant.

Gg

• getseé (verb), to leave, to depart.

Ii

• Ié (inanimate noun), seven.
• Ikóru (animate noun/affix), kingdom, state, nation, empire. Normally used as an affix to describe types of government, eg etserikóru (republic), kaɀikóru (kazhos), or eirakikóru(kingdom), archaically used to refer to the Assai Empire (ikóru-be Asai)

Kk

• katþ (negation particle), not, no, none. From Old Kai ko atješ, meaning 'and missing'. In Old Kai, the phrase ko atješ was used as a colloquial way of referring to something missing, as in, for example eja rušdek ko atješ (lit. '(he) is a man and missing ') to negate a positive statement. Over time, the phrase was shortened to katþ and its use became much more frequent, eventually becoming the principle particle of negation in Modern Assai.
• Kaɀikóru (animate noun), kazhos. From kaɀ, adapted from Metsian: kazh, and -ikóru, meaning 'state'.
• Kaɀore (animate noun), country, state, nation. From Metsian: khyezcörhu, meaning 'horde'.
• kéraneʃé (regular verb), to take away, to remove.
• kíké (regular verb), to let, to allow, to permit
• Kiné (irregular verb), four.
• Kísuru (animate noun), teacher, professor.
• kítaru (exclamation), hello, hi, hey.
• kórutaské (regular verb), to speak (a language). From Proto-Kai Khórhÿtešik, meaning 'language'.
• Kórutasku (animate noun), language, tongue. From Proto-Kai Khórhÿtešik, meaning 'language'.
• kuré (regular verb), to go, to travel. From Proto-Kai gürkáje, meaning 'to go' or 'to move towards'. Kai cognates: guramek ('to come').

Mm

• maé (irregular verb), to have, to possess. Conjugation as follows:

Conjugation of aié.

Pronoun	Conjugation
eís	ma
kó	mi
et	mei
utse	maé
te	mu
téc	mó
uci	maé

• matara (inanimate noun), coat, jacket.
• meá (exclamation, colloquialism, adjective), of course, naturally, no problem, no worries, all good.
• Meka (inanimate noun), time.
• Meru (animate noun), person, human, man.
• Meʃu (inanimate noun), house, residence, home.
• Mirá (inanimate noun), hunger. From Proto-Kai imärjuk, meaning 'wanting'.
• Momer (inanimate noun), singularity, the quality which makes something unique or alone.
• momeru (adjective), single, singular.
• Momo (inanimate noun), one, a single, single, singularity.
• moro (adjective), evil.
• Morer (animate noun), evil, badness, darkness. Colloquial: Vespian.

Nn

• Na (adjective), just now, just then.
• Narúʃ (inanimate noun), gate, door, arch.
• ne (colloquialism), really?, seriously?, are you sure?
• neder (inanimate noun, adjective), tomorrow. From Proto-Kai nóghydzerá, meaning tomorrow (lit. 'after-day').
• nera (adverb), also, as well, too.
• Ni (inanimate noun), ten.
• nímeré (regular verb), to remember, to recall

Oo

• o'meʃu (inanimate noun), home, at home, to my house.
• Oɀo (inanimate noun), nine.

Pp

• Pseiþu (inanimate noun), a shame as in that's a shame (dan-iʃ pseiþu)
• Pseru (inanimate noun), food, groceries, meal.

Þþ

• Þerar (animate noun), wood, timber, wooden. Unknown etymology.

Rr

• Ranako (animate noun), professor, learned man, teacher. From Bersanian ranaccus, meaning 'teacher'.
• reci (adjective), red.
• recié (regular verb), to redden, to bleed, to let blood.
• Reciár(inanimate noun), reddening, bleeding, blood-letting.
• Reʃer (inanimate noun), old-fashionedness, age, the quality of being old, old-fashioned, or belonging to another time.
• reʃi (preposition/conjunction), before, before happening.

Ss

• Satar (animate noun), culling, cleansing, destruction, razing, obliteration. From Proto-Kai ytsaiturje, meaning 'to place in water'
• serué (regular verb), to eat, to consume, to snack (on something). From Proto-Kai särudžija, meaning 'to hunt'.

ʃʃ

• ʃeruto (inanimate noun), yesterday.

Tt

• Taʃi (inanimate noun), eight.
• Teci (animate noun), dog, hound.
• To (inanimate noun), five.
• Tþeraké (animate noun), child, kid, young person. Potentially from Old Raetai h'jaaghi or h'jaake, meaning 'small animal' or 'baby'.
• Tsan (inanimate noun), six.
• tseá (colloquialism), well, umm.
• tsikaʃé (regular verb), to live, to inhabit. From Proto-Kai sikäšarija, meaning 'to live in'.
• tseceru (exclamation), see you later, bye, see you soon.

Vv

• veiá (adverb), a lot, much, many. Unknown etymology.

Ɀɀ

• ɀan (adjective), black, dark.
• ɀeteé (regular verb), to sit.