Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| afuru• | bark |
| afị• | tree |
| afị• | see |
| agha• | goods |
| aghi• | rain |
| aghụ• | ice |
| aji• | short |
| alit• | friend |
| ama• | leaf |
| amasaqhaụjii• | penis |
| anyaaqhi• | laugh |
| anyaqhụ• | breath |
| anyuqhị• | snake |
| aqh• | negative particle |
| aqhia• | name |
| aqhifi• | fire |
| aqhu• | swim |
| aqhị• | two |
| aquụ• | sharp |
| arafi• | ground, earth |
| ari• | child |
| arị• | ten |
| asi• | green |
| asụ• | moon |
| ayat• | me, i |
| ayu• | feather |
| aɓ̥a• | back |
| badar• | leader, chief |
| bafa• | feel smooth; be smooth |
| balu• | animal |
| banru• | belly |
| baqha• | tie |
| bara• | narrow |
| bida• | drink, take in, sip |
| bifiti• | liver |
| bih• | dirty |
| biihani• | yes |
| bini• | sand |
| biqhu• | vomit |
| biriqhighara• | thumb |
| bizụ• | six |
| bu• | suck |
| bughifụ• | five |
| buqhusiighu• | eighty |
| bịlịqhi• | to be wet |
| bịmii• | remain; to be left over |
| bịqhị• | sky |
| bịqhụ• | man |
| bịqhụala• | husband |
| bịquu• | dig |
| bụ• | with |
| bụbụ• | small |
| bụzụ• | seven |
| cama• | know |
| ci• | be; specifically for inanimate objects |
| cifụ• | if |
| cụ• | earth |
| dahua• | fire, volcano |
| dara• | where |
| di• | stone |
| dighusulusahi• | twelve |
| dighusulutu• | fourteen |
| dighusumuqhu• | eleven |
| dighusurura• | thirteen |
| dighusutisuti• | fifteen |
| diji• | salt |
| du• | at |
| duliqha• | mouse |
| dusu• | red |
| dịladụ• | flow |
| fa• | grow |
| faadaufaada• | to cry |
| faanyaaqhi• | to be funny |
| faaqhụịfaaqhụ• | to fear |
| fanraghụ• | get dark; grow dark; have no lit vision due to absence of light, especially an environment |
| fasufu• | to grow old |
| fi• | walk |
| finrị• | pepper, spice, flavour |
| fisi• | run |
| funyi• | fish |
| fuịra• | tail |
| fịfu• | woman |
| fịfuala• | wife |
| fịụfị• | to be good in personality |
| fụ• | take or follow a path or pattern or manner; from; through |
| fụ• | do; make happen |
| fụfị• | from; through, based on; judging from |
| fụzụ• | near |
| gadaqh• | bed |
| garah• | stick |
| garahat• | sticks |
| gasi• | fall |
| ghutu• | head |
| ghuzu• | build |
| ghụ• | night |
| gi• | not |
| gimiqh• | enemy |
| giri• | rub |
| grifaghụ• | join in marriage; marry |
| gruqua• | return; back to former |
| gu• | or |
| gufanụ• | water |
| gị• | hand |
| ha• | very; exaggerating the adjective |
| hafị• | lie |
| haji• | push |
| haqhi• | pull |
| has• | brain |
| hiliqhị• | wind |
| hinaghi• | day |
| hinụ• | to be younger than |
| hnyụ• | market |
| hu• | she |
| hul• | see, watch |
| hịghala• | love |
| idi• | grass |
| ighu• | x10 |
| ija• | arm |
| iji• | leg |
| in• | you (singular) |
| iqha• | hot |
| iqhuịfu• | a false information; lie |
| itafuị• | vagina |
| iti• | nine |
| itị• | why |
| jah• | bite |
| jaja• | hunt |
| jiqhi• | right |
| jiqhiighu• | sixty |
| jiqhu• | how |
| jiraqh• | spear |
| jufu• | flower |
| jị• | yellow |
| jụru• | bird |
| lafi• | blow |
| lah• | eat |
| laqhat• | bug/insect |
| lilitiqhama• | pussy |
| liqha• | they |
| luli• | white |
| lusahiighu• | twenty |
| lutighu• | forty |
| lị• | kneel; kneel down |
| lịịlị• | to be swollen |
| m• | i |
| maful• | kill |
| mafut• | sacred |
| maha• | mother |
| mahij• | farm |
| majir• | face |
| maqhiy• | poo, (faeces) |
| marurulilari• | like |
| mifị• | cold |
| mifịha• | to freeze |
| miriqhisa• | live |
| mita• | path |
| mu• | lake |
| muha• | ear |
| muni• | many |
| muqhi• | who |
| muqhuqhuma• | uniform |
| musa• | water, river |
| muuh• | cow |
| muụ• | wait around something or someone in order to protect; guard |
| mịghaisiamịghaisi• | to feel warm |
| mịị• | four |
| mụ• | me (only before a consonant) |
| naja• | dry |
| najughiisi• | invade |
| najuhu• | seed |
| najuqh• | attack |
| naluqh• | land, territory |
| naqhar• | wet |
| naya• | mud |
| nighu• | black |
| nqha• | people |
| nqhụ• | think |
| nqhụna• | river |
| nqi• | hear; taste; feel (skin); smell; sense something with four of the five sense organs |
| nqudi• | thick |
| nqusi• | cut |
| nqịqhi• | minute |
| nqụ• | for |
| nqụquụufụquu• | to fight a war |
| nqụquụụnqụquụ• | to fight |
| nqụsụsị• | hair |
| nraghụ• | darkness |
| nrahiụ• | to be black (non-human) |
| nrị• | hit |
| nrịci• | thin |
| nuniqhatit• | language |
| nusụrụ• | after |
| nyaaqhianyaaqhi• | to laugh |
| nyaya• | dust |
| nyazi• | rotten |
| nyinụ• | to be older than |
| nyụ• | stand |
| nị• | in |
| nụmi• | sleep |
| nụtị• | full |
| qhadufamaqhi• | kidney |
| qhafi• | straight |
| qhaghasahi• | danger; dangerous |
| qhaha• | father |
| qhahab• | but |
| qhahaqhat• | lungs |
| qhaifata• | throw |
| qhara• | we |
| qharar• | obsidian |
| qhasamarafuru• | hate |
| qhasun• | year |
| qhasuqh• | olive |
| qhatahu• | warm |
| qhatam• | freeze |
| qhatidaqhat• | human |
| qhatil• | funny |
| qhatit• | person |
| qhi• | hour |
| qhighiụqhighi• | to be red in clour |
| qhighu• | cook |
| qhiqh• | grain |
| qhiqhi• | because |
| qhiraqhamafut• | buttocks |
| qhiraqharagha• | spine |
| qhiraqhasaqhisahamuh• | yesterday |
| qhisaqhisahamuh• | today |
| qhitararanu• | dickhead |
| qhu• | be (who, what, whose something or someone is); is; am; are |
| qhub• | rope |
| qhufadahi• | pee (urine) |
| qhufụ• | wipe |
| qhuqhi• | left |
| qhuqhihianu• | throat |
| qhuɓ̥ayịuqhuɓ̥ayị• | to be narrow |
| qhuịfuiqhuịfu• | to tell a lie |
| qhuụha• | to live |
| qhịqhụ• | correct |
| quanụ• | heavy |
| quazila• | to be dirty |
| quị• | hold |
| quụaquụ• | to be sharp |
| ragha• | bone |
| raghamafut• | pelvis |
| raghanaqhisitamafut• | boner (erect penis) |
| raqha• | nail |
| ri• | give |
| rifaurifa• | to be round in shape |
| rifụ• | dog |
| righisị• | before |
| ru• | tooth |
| ru• | to fly; to levitate |
| ruda• | ash |
| ruli• | stomach |
| rumrum• | louse |
| runu• | knee |
| rurighu• | thirty |
| ruụnrụụ• | shower; bath; to wash your body |
| rụ• | auxiliary part of a future verb; will(future) |
| rụ• | this |
| rụra• | of; which; one (pronoun) |
| rụraaqhị• | second |
| rụraarị• | tenth |
| rụrafizụ• | sixth |
| rụrafughifụ• | fifth |
| rụrafụzụ• | seventh |
| rụraiti• | ninth |
| rụramịị• | fourth |
| rụrataqhi• | third |
| rụrayaghu• | first |
| rụsi• | here |
| rụsụqhu• | hear |
| saa• | after(wards); therefore or then (resulting from something else) |
| sadiqhighu• | nineteen |
| safi• | crash; collide |
| saghifi• | other |
| sahalulighu• | seventy |
| sahaqhagharahat• | toes |
| sahiqhigharahat• | fingers |
| salumi• | float |
| sarah• | camp, settlement |
| sariqh• | road |
| si• | fast |
| sia• | mouth |
| siasi• | to be green |
| sufu• | old |
| susahaqhan• | hidden, unknown |
| sịmụ• | swap |
| sịmụagha• | trade |
| sịqhi• | be able; be capable (have strength) may; might; be likely to happen |
| sụ• | it |
| sụqhi• | smoke |
| tahafaqhafan• | work |
| taqhi• | three |
| tih• | dull |
| tisutiighu• | fifty |
| tu• | come |
| tuqh• | only |
| ufaada• | cry |
| ufụquu• | war |
| uqhị• | breast |
| urifa• | round |
| uyị• | forest |
| uyụ• | long |
| uziifa• | to taste flavour |
| yafụ• | to scratch |
| yaghu• | one |
| yaj• | chest |
| yayụ• | to be wide |
| yi• | egg |
| yiri• | squeeze |
| yiyi• | breathe |
| yucị• | far |
| yufụfunu• | drink |
| yụru• | fly |
| za• | usually attached to a verb or negator '-gị' to mean 'no longer' 'no more' 'any more' or 'not' to emphasize the first negator |
| zamụ• | play |
| zirị• | turn |
| zunu• | to vomit |
| zị• | bad |
| zịqhu• | say |
| zịụ• | sing |
| zụ• | and |
| zụfa• | burn |
| zụɓ̥a• | split |
| ɓ̥ahụ• | few |
| ɓ̥ai• | die |
| ɓ̥aluụ• | eye |
| ɓ̥amụɓ̥ịfi• | horn |
| ɓ̥aɓ̥aqhụ• | spit |
| ɓ̥ịqhụ• | big |
| ɓ̥ịyiin• | dead |
| ɓ̥ịụɓ̥ị• | to be blue in colour |
| ɓ̥ụ• | cloud |
| ɓ̥ụba• | all |
| ɓ̥ụnqụ• | neck |
| ɓ̥ụnyụ• | nose |
| ɓ̥ụnụ• | heart |
| ịfaaqhụ• | fear |
| ịfi• | skin |
| ịfiazu• | worm |
| ịlụ• | star |
| ịqhi• | thing |
| ịqhu• | cloth |
| ịziqhụ• | non-human body |
| ụbụ• | what |
| ụfa• | blood |
| ụfi• | mountain |
| ụfiɓ̥i• | foot |
| ụfị• | good |
| ụfụ• | root |
| ụga• | eight |
| ụha• | life |
| ụmụajụqha• | planet |
| ụnqụquụ• | fight |
| ụnrụụ• | body |
| ụqhi• | new |
| ụyafụ• | scratch |
| ụzunu• | nausea; cause a feeling to vomit |
| ụɓ̥ị• | blue |