Dictionary

There are 483 root words, 23 loans, the numbers, 20 units of the optional senary measurement system, 61 grammar words and 52 compounds. The Common column runs from 5, the words to learn first, down to 1. Type in the box to filter, or click a column heading to sort. The grammar words are explained in section 13 of the reference.

Word	Meaning	Topic	Common	Opposite
aban	outside	space	2	bese
afe	yesterday	time	3	wuma
agi	lose, misplace	action	2	yiyin
ago	senary unit of length (1.530 m)	unit	1
akan	louse	animal	3
alun	break	action	2
anbo	horse	animal	2
anko	until, up to (a time or point)	time	3
anle	lie, lie down	motion	2
anyu	east	space	3	munke
apu	word; language	sense	4
awin	dust	nature	3
awuwa	hour	loan	4
aya	watch, timepiece	time	4
badin	lung	body	3
bafo	6⁻⁸ (senary)	number	1
baken	fog	nature	2
bamo	stop	motion	3	tuko
banga	panic	mind	2
banlu	narrow	size	2	tugan
batali	battery	loan	2
batu	problem	abstract	3
bawe	important	quality	2
bayi	sad	mind	2	sogi
bayisikalu	bicycle	loan	2
bebu	disgust	mind	2
bedan	marry, wedding	action	2
bekin	garbage, trash	thing	2
benbi	open	action	2	udin
bendo	leg	body	2
bese	inside	space	3	aban
bewon	raw	quality	2	bubin
beya	door	thing	2
bige	above	space	3	deba
bika	buy	action	2	koda
bilun	yellow	color	1
bina	fly, move through the air	motion	2
binla	boil	action	2
binnu	boat	thing	2
binso	snow	nature	1
biton	enemy	people	2	sonu
bodu	dirty	quality	1	inan
bone	use	action	3
bonko	angry	mind	2	fanse
bonwi	peace	abstract	1	pinpu
bosun	testicles	body	2
botan	weapon	thing	2
boyo	block, 36 days (senary)	time	3
bubin	ripe	quality	2	bewon
bubo	laugh	sense	2
buda	dark	quality	2	wino
bufe	game	abstract	2
buni	okay?, softens and invites agreement (stance, sentence end)	abstract	4
bunle	easy	quality	2	gofa
bunsi	steal	action	2
buntu	about to, soon	time	2
bunwu	salt	nature	1
buyan	split	action	2
da	four	number	5
dandi	push	motion	1	nunya
danki	nose	body	2
deba	below	space	3	bige
degun	glass, the material	thing	1
demi	cloth	thing	2
denku	correct	quality	2	gagan
desin	defecate	action	2
deta	blue	color	1
dibon	loud	quality	2	mange
digan	sand	nature	1
diguli	degree (°)	loan	2
dili	day, daytime or 24 hours	time	4	yami
dinbu	snake	animal	1
dinyo	carry	motion	2
ditun	seek, search for	action	3	geno
doku	work, labour; of a machine, function	action	4
dola	dollar	loan	3
doma	listen	sense	2
donbo	squeeze	action	2
donon	it turned out, surprisingly (stance, sentence end)	abstract	3
dosi	fall, drop down	motion	2
dowin	cough	action	3
duko	turn, rotate or turn around	motion	2
dunan	month; moon	nature	2	giwe
dundi	respect, honour	people	3
dunsa	cow	animal	1
dunu	get, obtain	action	3
duwa	new	quality	3	pani
duwun	afternoon	time	3	leso
eda	now	time	5
efon	allow	action	3
egu	breast	body	4
elen	goat	animal	2
eni	other	quality	4	kige
enna	worm	animal	3
enpa	free, not held or controlled	quality	2
ensu	bus	thing	2
eten	short, not long	size	2	netu
ewo	person	people	5
faba	sibling	people	3
fade	mouth	body	3
fadun	tired	quality	3
fafin	dead	quality	2
falan	climb	motion	2
fanmu	gather, bring or come together	action	2
fanse	calm	mind	2	bonko
fawu	year	time	3
febo	answer	sense	3
feko	true	quality	3
feli	many	size	4	uyo
feme	feel	mind	4
fesun	hunt	action	2
fi	one	number	5
finbi	suddenly	time	2
finlu	bitter	taste	2	sinta
finsa	adjust, set	action	2
foke	moment	time	2
fomi	senary unit of mass (1.513 kg)	unit	1
fongo	straight	quality	3	ginda
fonma	tooth	body	2
fonsu	cut	action	2
foto	photo	loan	3
fowo	ground, earth or soil	nature	3
fudon	room, of a building	thing	3
fugi	end	time	3	tuko
funbe	left, the side	space	2	nata
funo	eye	body	3
funti	group	people	2
futa	woman, female	people	3	lowu
fuyu	meat	animal	2
gabe	run, on foot	motion	3
gabu	vomit	action	3
gagan	wrong	quality	2	denku
gake	slow	quality	2	yobe
gala	tree	nature	3
gamun	light, not heavy	size	1	gogo
ganin	hope	mind	2
ganna	early, before the expected time	time	3	yodun
ganpa	yawn	action	2
gansu	senary unit of resistance (19.92 ohm)	unit	1
gason	idea	abstract	2
gawo	body	body	3
gayen	copy, make the same again	action	3
gegi	rain	nature	3
gekon	fly, the insect	animal	2
gelu	near	space	3	lini
genne	mountain	nature	2
geno	find	action	3	ditun
genso	not literally, joking (speech act)	abstract	1
genwi	6⁻¹² (senary)	number	1
gewan	trust, rely on	mind	3
geye	senary unit of power (120.5 W)	unit	1
gife	6⁸ (senary)	number	1
gigin	country, nation	people	3
gimen	fat, body fat	body	3
gimu	occasion, a time (three times)	time	3
ginda	crooked	quality	2	fongo
ginni	add, put in more	action	3	nuton
gipo	bone	body	2
gisu	green	color	1
gitin	throw	motion	1
giwe	sun	nature	3	dunan
gofa	difficult	quality	2	bunle
gogo	heavy	size	2	gamun
gole	smart	mind	2
gonge	lip	body	2
gonmi	toe	body	2
gonte	mosquito	animal	2
goyu	sit	motion	3	kolu
gudu	liver	body	4
gufu	hard, not soft	quality	2	tutin
guge	grow	action	2
gulo	wind	nature	2
gunmo	thin	size	3	woten
gusen	intestines	body	2
guti	minus	number	3
guyi	house, home	thing	4
ibe	have, possess	action	5
iko	tell	sense	4	mido
ilekutulisiti	electricity	loan	2
imeyilu	email	loan	3
imu	remember	mind	3	yakin
inan	clean	quality	1	bodu
ingo	book	thing	2
inke	grind	action	3
intalunetu	internet	loan	2
inwa	enter	motion	2	kusa
inwun	told, hearsay	abstract	1
inyi	arm	body	3
isi	go	motion	5	sigo
ka	three	number	5
kamela	camera	loan	2
kanga	basket	thing	2
kanko	smell, sense or give off an odour	sense	3
kanwi	senary unit of frequency (3.24 Hz (1 cycle per Kena))	unit	1
kedon	vulva	body	2
kefa	spit	action	3
kefi	eight	number	4
kegin	evening	time	1	leso
kegu	talk	sense	3
kemin	document, file	thing	3	mabo
kemu	place	space	4
kenlo	tail	animal	1
kete	full	size	2	tapun
kewen	senary unit of voltage (48.99 V)	unit	1
keya	must, have to	mind	3
kidun	fair, just	quality	3
kige	same	quality	3	eni
kilamita	kilometre	loan	2
kilan	dry	quality	1	wulon
kima	wood, the material	nature	2
kinbo	disappointed	mind	2
kisu	senary unit of energy (37.19 J)	unit	1
kiti	hand	body	4
kobi	move	motion	3
koda	sell	action	2	bika
kokan	senary unit of inductance (6.147 H)	unit	1
kolu	stand	motion	3	goyu
konke	strong	quality	2	nensi
kono	die	action	3	nume
konsin	at least	abstract	1
kontakutu	contact, address-book entry	loan	2
kowan	round	quality	2
koye	drink	action	3
kubo	change, make or become different	action	3
kudu	big	size	4	meli
kufe	6⁻⁴ (senary)	number	1
kunsu	private, not for others	quality	2
kunwa	stab	action	2
kusa	leave, go away from	motion	3	obu
kuwi	keep; protect	action	2
kuwun	roof	thing	2
ladon	cup	thing	1
lafi	understand	mind	3
lage	salty	taste	3
lanba	cloud	nature	1
lanli	ugly	quality	2	sesa
lanno	honoured one, title of respect (sir, madam, Mr, Ms)	people	3
lante	shallow	size	2	lawan
lapo	storm	nature	2
lasu	bite	action	4
lawan	deep	size	2	lante
layisansu	licence	loan	2
lefan	follow	motion	2
lemon	brain	body	2
lengu	onion	nature	2
lenu	can, be able	mind	5
lenya	strange, odd	quality	2
leso	morning	time	2	duwun
lewe	become	action	4
leyi	knee	body	4
lifin	between	space	2
liga	phone	thing	3
lilu	read	sense	2
linfa	blunt	quality	2	tungi
lini	far	space	3	gelu
linku	low	space	2	tisan
linma	finger	body	3
lisun	tongue	body	1
lite	way, method	abstract	3
liwon	arrive	motion	2
loban	check, verify	action	3
lodi	bird	animal	3
loki	hundred	number	4
lonfe	swim	motion	1
lonne	clothes	thing	2
lota	thank	sense	3
lowu	man, male	people	3	futa
loyen	young	quality	2	pani
lugo	know	mind	5
lukan	head	body	3
lula	power, strength or control	abstract	2
lumi	fire	nature	3
lunyu	page, sheet	thing	3
lupi	rupee	loan	2
luse	play, for fun	action	3
lutu	stone	nature	3
mabo	paper	thing	2	kemin
magan	flow	motion	2
makon	blood	body	2
mala	heart	body	3
maman	suck	action	3
manfu	tie, fasten with a knot	action	3
mange	quiet	quality	2	dibon
manni	usually, habitually	time	3
mape	nine	number	4
masin	senary unit of particle mass (6^-34 Woba)	unit	1
mawun	flat, level	quality	2
mefa	today	time	4
meli	small	size	4	kudu
meno	senary unit of angle (1 turn)	unit	1
mesun	each, every one separately	abstract	3
meyen	flower	nature	3
mibun	hide	action	2
mido	ask	sense	3	iko
migi	fight	action	2
miko	36 (senary)	number	1
mimi	point (decimal)	number	3
minfi	noon, midday	time	3
minitu	minute, of time	loan	4
minwe	whole	size	2
mise	card	thing	2
miya	look, look at	sense	3
mogo	neck	body	4
mole	mother	people	3	wede
momu	want	mind	5	nuta
monna	south	space	3	soto
monpa	crush	action	2
monyu	hungry	quality	3
moti	again	time	3
muban	throat	body	3
mufin	lightning	nature	2
muge	do; make	action	5
munke	west	space	3	anyu
munno	thousand	number	3
musu	thing	thing	5
muwo	happen	action	4
muyi	time, a span or a point (not an occasion)	time	4
nagu	see	sense	5
nane	senary unit of time (0.3086 s (day / 6^7))	unit	1
nansa	box, container	thing	2
nanyo	blow, of air	action	3
nata	right, the side	space	2	funbe
nawi	eat	action	4
nebe	back, of the body; behind	body	2	sinye
nedin	almost, nearly	abstract	3
neke	give	action	4	yidu
nelon	week	time	3
nenmu	snore	action	2
nensi	weak	quality	1	konke
nenwa	lake	nature	2
netu	long	size	3	eten
niba	walk	motion	2
niki	kind, type	abstract	3
nilen	rough	quality	2	windi
nimo	money	thing	3
ninge	sound, noise	nature	3
ninsu	oppose, be against	action	3
niyu	216 (senary)	number	1
nobi	6 (senary)	number	1
nokun	ice	nature	1
nosen	god	abstract	1
noso	animal	animal	3
nowa	cry, weep	sense	2
noyon	senary unit of information (ln 6 natural units (one senary digit))	unit	1
nulu	hear	sense	4
nume	live, be alive or dwell	action	4	kono
nunfo	buttocks	body	2
nunya	pull	motion	1	dandi
nuta	fear	mind	3	momu
nuton	remove, erase	action	3	ginni
nuwen	without	abstract	3
obu	come	motion	5	kusa
ofin	spouse	people	3
ogen	senary unit of pressure (10.38 Pa)	unit	1
oma	seven	number	4
omen	kill	action	2
onlo	shoot	action	2
onti	burn	action	2
osa	water	nature	5
osupitalu	hospital	loan	3
oton	city	space	3
oyi	say	sense	5
paben	fart	action	2
pani	old, aged or worn	quality	3	loyen
pasentu	percent	loan	2
pasu	food	thing	4
pata	life	abstract	3
payon	hit	action	2
pensi	wash	action	1
penso	smoke	nature	1
penyu	connect, join	action	3
peton	share, let others have too	action	3
pifo	foot	body	3
pinda	white	color	2	tago
pinfe	plant, vegetation	nature	2
pinpu	war	abstract	1	bonwi
piyi	stay	motion	3
po	zero	number	5
polisu	police	loan	3
pume	think	mind	5
puya	sea	nature	2
sa	two	number	5
sandu	senary unit of force (24.30 N)	unit	1
sanfi	side	space	2
sanku	miss, feel the absence of	mind	2
sanne	touch	sense	2
sanwa	rent, pay to use	action	2
sefu	wait	motion	3
sege	send	action	3
sekan	field, open land	nature	2
sekandu	second, of time	loan	3
selo	build	action	2
senali	senary	loan	1
senan	senary unit of count of entities (6^34 entities (role of the mole))	unit	1
senke	armpit	body	2
senmo	wall	thing	2
sepi	apologise	sense	3
sesa	beautiful	quality	2	lanli
seyun	thunder	nature	3
sigi	senary unit of temperature interval (2.031 K)	unit	1
sigo	return	motion	3	isi
simi	sick	quality	2
sinta	sweet	taste	2	finlu
sinun	dream	mind	2
sinye	front	space	2	nebe
sison	storey, floor level of a building	thing	2
siten	cook	action	2
situ	shade, shadow from light	nature	3
siwa	cart	thing	2
siwin	billion	number	2
sobon	senary unit of magnetic flux density (6.457 T)	unit	1
sofen	chew	action	2
sogan	a right, entitlement	abstract	2
sogi	happy	mind	3	bayi
sola	road	space	3
sonfa	hair	body	2
sonli	safe, not in danger	quality	2
sonu	friend	people	3	biton
sonyu	shoulder	body	2
soti	bed	thing	2
soto	north	space	3	monna
sowe	bread	thing	3
suba	feather	animal	3
suku	face	body	3
sulen	ash	nature	1
sumin	scratch	action	2
sunbu	count	mind	2
sunni	insect	animal	1
susin	shake, vibrate	motion	2
suso	name	people	3
suyon	belly	body	1
tago	black	color	2	pinda
tale	car	thing	3
tana	like, enjoy	mind	4
tanbu	cheap, low in price	quality	3	unwi
tanun	fruit	nature	2
tapi	close, shut	action	2	benbi
tapun	empty	size	2	kete
tase	bark, of a tree	nature	3
tason	rather, somewhat	abstract	2
tayin	complain	sense	2
tayu	agree	mind	3
te	five	number	5
tenbe	rope	thing	1
tengi	tuber	nature	2
tenmi	taste	sense	2
tibin	urinate	action	3
tika	egg	animal	2
tikun	hot	quality	2	weki
tilo	senary unit of temperature scale (t/Vo = T/Bu - 134.5)	unit	1
timon	half	size	2
tingu	swell	action	2
tinli	key, button	thing	3
tinne	sneeze	action	2
tisan	high	space	2	linku
tiwe	sweat	body	3
tiwu	child	people	4
tofo	teach	mind	3	yesa
togun	breathe	action	3
tolin	nail, of a finger or toe	body	3
tonde	ant	animal	2
tonen	million	number	3
tonya	enough, as much as needed	abstract	3
totu	dog	animal	3
tufun	sour	taste	2
tugan	wide	size	1	banlu
tuko	start	motion	3	fugi
tuleyin	train	loan	2
tungi	sharp	quality	1	linfa
tunlo	milk	thing	2
tunmu	grass	nature	3
tusi	write	sense	2
tutin	soft	quality	1	gufu
udin	lock	action	2	benbi
ufo	six	number	4
ukun	reason	abstract	2
unda	wake	action	2	wopo
unfu	pay	action	2
unne	skin	body	2
unun	times ten to the power of	number	2
unwi	expensive	quality	3	tanbu
upe	good	quality	5
uwan	star	nature	2
uyo	few	size	3	feli
wabun	rule, regulation or law	abstract	2
waka	choose	mind	2
walo	try	mind	3
wanme	seen, evidence by sight	abstract	1
wase	magic	abstract	2
wede	father	people	3	mole
weki	cold, not hot	quality	2	tikun
wekun	pain	mind	2
wela	senary unit of capacitance (0.01550 F)	unit	1
wemen	inferred, it seems	abstract	1
wenfe	dig	action	2
wento	penis	body	2
weyu	story	abstract	2
wifu	number	abstract	3
wigen	love	mind	3
windi	smooth	quality	2	nilen
wino	light, brightness	nature	3	buda
wisa	ear	body	2
wiwi	red	color	2
woga	fish, the animal	animal	3
wonin	leaf	nature	1
wonku	reach	motion	2
wonwe	ready	quality	2
wopo	sleep	action	3	unda
woten	thick	size	1	gunmo
wulon	wet	quality	1	kilan
wuma	tomorrow	time	4	afe
wungu	lead, guide	action	2
wunta	air	nature	2
wupi	need; should	mind	4
wuwu	navel	body	3
wuye	show	sense	3
yaga	put	action	3
yakin	forget	mind	2	imu
yami	night	time	3	dili
yansi	horn	animal	2
yawu	ten	number	4
yaye	sky	nature	2
yebin	call, phone or call to	sense	2
yegon	rice	nature	2
yema	help	action	4
yenbo	rest, take a break	action	3
yenwu	offend	mind	2
yesa	learn	mind	3	tofo
yetu	tool	thing	2
yiban	chicken	animal	2
yidu	take	action	4	neke
yikan	seed	nature	2
yile	system	thing	3
yinki	root, of a plant	nature	3
yiyin	win	action	2	agi
yiyo	6⁴ (senary)	number	1
yobe	fast, quick	quality	2	gake
yodun	late, after the expected time	time	3	ganna
yofu	mean, signify	mind	3
yoke	senary unit of charge (0.7592 C)	unit	1
yolan	river	nature	2
yomo	bad	quality	4
yonnu	hold	action	2
yonyo	family	people	2
yufa	bag	thing	2
yuli	6¹² (senary)	number	1
yulo	euro	loan	2
yunbi	wing	animal	1
yunen	oil, the liquid	thing	2
yunko	wear	action	2
yuson	rotten	quality	3
yuwan	yuan	loan	2
yuyun	sing	sense	1

Grammar words

Word	Meaning	Kind
a	you know	act
ba	exclaim	act
ben	that	det
bi	very	degree
bo	some, any	op
bu	it	pron
de	intend	act
din	we (not you)	pron
don	if	link
du	thing for	deriv
en	name follows	name
fa	none	det
fe	also	op
fon	advise	act
fu	like	rel
gan	with	rel
ge	thing done	deriv
gi	because	link
go	one, people	pron
gun	be	verb
in	some	det
ke	more	degree
kin	some, not all	det
kon	confidence (sixths)	op
la	plural	det
le	ongoing (aspect)	asp
li	for	rel
lu	or	link
man	who, which (describes)	link
me	you	pron
min	question	act
mon	at	rel
mu	not	op
na	only	op
nen	self	pron
nin	while	link
no	one who	deriv
nun	polite	act
o	focus	op
pen	we (with you)	pron
pi	of	rel
pu	place for	deriv
se	from	rel
sin	done (aspect)	asp
so	request	act
sun	he/she (the one reported)	pron
tan	this	det
tin	instruct	act
to	i	pron
tun	to	rel
un	but	link
wan	he/she	pron
we	all	det
wi	even	op
wo	after	rel
wun	that (a clause)	link
ya	before	rel
yen	and	link
yi	he/she (another one)	pron
yo	warn	act
yu	what, which	op

Compounds

Word	Meaning	Literally
apu pi udin	password	word of locking
apu pi we	the.language	language of all
dinbu pi lumi	dragon	snake of fire
doku pi timon	part.time.work	work of half
du penyu	link	thing for connecting
du sunbu	computer	thing for counting (as Mandarin 计算机, Arabic حاسوب)
du wuye	screen	thing for showing
fawu netu	leap.year	year long
foto pi du wuye	screenshot	photo of the screen
gan momu	on.purpose	with wanting
ge finsa la	settings	things that are set
ge sunbu	account	what is counted (as Spanish cuenta, Arabic حساب)
go mu unfu	free.of.charge	anyone not pay
goyu pume	meditate	sit thinking
imeyilu bekin	spam	garbage email (as Mandarin 垃圾邮件, Spanish correo basura)
kima netu	stick	wood long
kobi lunyu	scroll	move the page
kubo pu nume	move.house	change the place where one lives
mole yen wede	parents	mother and father
mu gan momu	by.accident	not with wanting
muge duwa	update	make new
muge sigo	undo	make return
muyi pi gawo	body.time	time of body
muyi pi gegi	rainy.season	time of rain
muyi pi kemu	local.time	time of place
muyi tikun	summer	time hot
muyi weki	winter	time cold
nansa pi kemin	folder	box of documents
no bina mon yami	bat.the.animal	one that flies at night
no ibe guyi	landlord	one who has the house
no migi	warrior	one who fights
no nume gelu	neighbour	one who lives near
no nuta	coward	one who fears
no obu se yaye	alien	one who comes from the sky
no wase	wizard	one who does magic
no wungu	commander	one who leads
noso gake	turtle	slow animal
noso meli man lasu gan kenlo	scorpion	small animal that bites with its tail
noso meli man lonfe yen niba	frog	small animal that swims and walks
noso meli pi bendo feli	spider	small animal of many legs
noso meli pi tunmu	grasshopper	small animal of the grass
oyi dibon	yell	say loudly
pu kuwi	warehouse	place for keeping
pu siten	kitchen	place for cooking
pu wopo	bedroom	place for sleeping
sege tun bige	upload	send up
sunbu pi muyi	the.count	count of time
tinli la	keyboard	the keys
tiwu futa	daughter	child woman
tiwu lowu	son	child man
tun nebe	backward	to back
yaga tale	park.a.car	put the car