| Core or Supplement | Láadan | English |
|---|---|---|
| C | a | love (for inanimates only); to love (inanimates only) |
| C | áana | sleep (see also: ina=to sleep) |
| C | an | to know (of people) |
| C | ana | food |
| C | aril | later, after (in time) |
| C | ash | star |
| C | babí | bird |
| C | bal | bread |
| C | ban | to give |
| C | beth | home |
| C | bre...ébre | if .. then |
| C | bróo | because |
| C | dal | thing |
| C | dala | plant, any growing thing |
| C | dale | object, any made thing |
| C | dan | language [dáan=word] |
| C | dazh | to be yielding, pliant, soft |
| C | den | help, to help |
| C | di | to speak, say, tell |
| C | dim | container |
| C | do | to be strong |
| C | e | or, either |
| C | ed | tool |
| C | éeya | sickness, disease, illness |
| C | el | to make |
| C | en | to understand |
| C | eril | earlier, before (in time) |
| C | éthe | to be clean (See also: háawithéthe, huhéthe, mudahéthe, onidahéthe, thóohéthe) |
| C | hal | work, to work |
| C | ham | to be present |
| C | hath | time |
| C | heb | down, the direction |
| C | héeya | fear, to fear, to be afraid |
| C | híya | to be small |
| C | hoth | place |
| C | i | and |
| C | ihe | before (in space), in front of [ihée=after] |
| C | ihée | after (in space), behind [ihe=before] |
| C | ili | water |
| C | izh | but |
| C | láad | to perceive [láa=perception] |
| C | lili | to be wet [lil=water] |
| C | liri | to be colored, to have color |
| C | lóolo | to be slow |
| C | menedebe | to be many [nedebe=to be few + me-=implies grater weight or size or importance] (never change form or add case marker) |
| C | mid | creature, any animal |
| C | mime | to ask |
| C | mina | to move |
| C | naya | to take care of |
| C | nede | one, (1) |
| C | néde | to want |
| C | nedebe | to be few, to be several [but not many] (never change form or add case marker) |
| C | nil | inside |
| C | nin | to cause, causal |
| C | o | around |
| C | obe | through |
| C | obée | during (I work during the night. -> Bíi hal le náaleya obée wa.) |
| C | oma | hand |
| C | onida | family |
| C | óoha | to be tired, weary |
| C | óol | moon |
| C | óowa | fire |
| C | osháana | to menstruate, menstrual |
| C | owa | to be warm, hot |
| C | ra | no, not (interjection) |
| C | rahadidad | never [ra=non- + hadidad=always] |
| C | raheb | up [ra=non- + heb=down] |
| C | rana | drink, beverage, to drink |
| C | ranil | outside, out [ra=non- + nil=inside] |
| C | rayil | above [ra=non- + yil=under] |
| C | ril | now |
| C | ro | weather |
| C | rosh | sun |
| C | rul | cat |
| C | sha | harmony, to be in harmony |
| C | sháad | to come, to go (differentiated by the 'source' or 'goal' marker on the following noun) |
| C | shim | to "sexual act", engage in sex, copulation (abstract and completely neutral term) |
| C | shub | to do |
| C | thal | to be good, fine, satisfactory |
| C | thi | to have |
| C | thili | fish |
| C | thosh | sky |
| C | ud | stone |
| C | úuya | to hurt, feel pain |
| C | weth | road, way, path, track |
| C | wida | to carry |
| C | wihi | emotion |
| C | wíi | to be alive, living [wi=life] |
| C | with | person, woman; to specify a male person, add the masculine suffix '-id' |
| C | wóoban | to give birth, to bear |
| C | yada | thirst, to be thirsty, thirsting |
| C | yil | to be under, below |
| C | yod | to eat |
| C | yom | safe, secure |
| C | yu | fruit |
| C | zhe | to be like, as, similar |
| C | zho | sound (audible) |
| C | zhub | insect |
| CS | áya | to be beautiful |
| CS | bad | mineral |
| CS | balin | to be old |
| CS | bo | mountain |
| CS | dom | to remember |
| CS | doni | ground, dirt, earth, soil |
| CS | ede | grain |
| CS | esh | boat |
| CS | hesh | grass |
| CS | id | and-then |
| CS | lom | song |
| CS | lub | poultry, fowl (chicken, duck, goose) |
| CS | máa | egg |
| CS | mi | leaf, as in leaf of a tree, not a page in a book |
| CS | muda | pig |
| CS | nu | here |
| CS | oba | body |
| CS | ona | face (the body part) |
| CS | sheb | change, to change |
| CS | shum | air |
| CS | thom | pillow |
| CS | thul | parent |
| CS | wili | river, creek [ili=water] |
| CS | yob | coffee |
Contact: Jackie Powers
08/24/2007