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��������Basalt - ahbtsee(n) Be - kehn(v) Beast - bah(n) Beast people - bahr(n) Begin - glo(v) Blank - neeah(a) Blank Book - kor'neeah(n) Bless - pahboy(v) Blessing - bigto(n) Book - kor(n) Brave - kehra(a) Bring - mahn(v) Brittle - na'grehnis(a) Build - ehndai(v) Builder - ehndaitahn(n) Bulb - poy(n) But - roob / royv(?) By - teh

��������Can/Able - shin(?) Cave - gahlpo(n) Ceremony - v'ja(n) Charge - ilais(v) Charge up - sifay(v) City - pahts(n) Clean - nee(a) Complete - choylahnay(v) Completely - b’fahsee(to 25) Construct- mishtah(v) Contact - tehrehlin(n) Could - voohee Council(the) - kaligo(n) Crater - roshee(n) Create - mahrn(v) Creator - mahrntahn(n) Creation - mahrntahv(n) Creature - boogin(n)

����Day - yahr(n) Dead - shoo(a) Death - shooth(n) Defeat - dormahdh(v) Descriptive Book - kormahn(n) Design - say(v) Determine - tokitu(v) Detour - kazee(v) Discover - lon(v) Dissolve - reeslo(v) Dome towers - dahsh(Riven) Drawn - (sh)(p)uhlehn Drink - glahs(v) Due - gatah(?)

��������Each - pod Easy - rilnar(?) Eat - rees(v) Eight - vagasehn

Eleven - naigafah Empire - gahn(n) Empty - neeah(a) End - zuh(n) Equal - pehkai(a) Error - ahveh Eternal - tsahno Everlasting - tsahno Every - bihv Example - khlay(n) Excavate - gid(v)

��������Farewell - shorah Fault - chay(n) (geol.) Few - trehn - khah(?) Fifteen - heebor Finally - norehf(a) Find - hoor(v) Fire - tahm(n) First - fah / fahets First Book Celeb’ -

korfah v'ja Five - Vaht Flow - rehm(v) Follow - mahrehnt(v) Foot - toogo(n) For - k'(prefix)

- khreh-(prefix) For the - khreh- (prefix) Forever - tsahn Formula - ooshah(n) Four - tor Fourteen - naigator Fresh - nee(a) Frog - ytram (Rivenese) From - m’(prefix) - meh From the - mreh- (prefix)

��������Gallery - tihmehn(?)

Gate - kotsah(n) Get - ahnee(v) Give - tahg(v) Glow - tsoid((v) God (the Maker) - Yahvo Good - rahm(a) Grand - gahro(a) Great/Large - gahro(a) Ground - gahlon(n) Group - tehs(n) Grow - tool(v) Guild - Tehl(n)

��������Harsh - wotsah(?) Have - sehk(v) Have/Has - l’ (prefix) Heart - mor(?) Hello - shorah Help - tayr Highly - b’rigahsehn Him/Her - shehn His/Her - on(suffix) Hope - devokan(n) House - tomahn(n) How - thoeh However - roob - dhozonehsh(?)

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Kor’vahk(n) Little - prihn(a) Live - tsahv(v) Lizard - m'la(n) Lord - oonray(n) Love - taygahn(v) Low - zith(a) -ly - ehts

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Hehvtee Mineral - irvahn(n) Month - vihlee(n) More - fooruh(?) Move - kro(v) My - oy(suffix)

��������Nature - vog(n) Near/at once - fahsh(?)

Need - mehs(v) New - nee(a) Nine - vagator Nineteen - heegator No/not - rihl

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- t’ (non-personal) - meh Of one - stofah Of the - mreh- (prefix) - treh- Office - oolbah(n) On - f’ (prefix) Once - fahm(?) One - fah Only - kat(?) Open space - fahdho(?) Or - pahm Order - ehflin(n) Organism - chir (n) Original - kahg(a) Our - ot(suffix) Out of - m'(prefix) Outer - mehlin(a) Outsider - ahrotahn(n)

��������Peace - shorah(n) People - rovtee(n) Permanent - tsahno(a) Person - rov(n) Phosphorescent - bahroneht(a) Plant - gihlo(n) Poisoned water - mehrk Possible - jehru(a) Possibility - jeruth Power up - sifay(v) Praise - votahr(v) Pray - pahrkh(?) Presence - vaytsoo(n)

Procedure - riway(n) Prophecy - jimah(n) Protect - ahreeuh (?) Protector - ahreeuhtahn

����Ready - ahtsoo(a) Require - mehs(v) Rock - prad(n) Rocksalt - shutejoo(n) Rock-working -

pradteegahl Room - hehrn(n) Root - nai(n) Route - rooay(n) Row - fehl- Rower - fel-tahn Rule - lehsh(n)

!!!!����Safe - gitsah(a) Salamander - m’lah Saliva - poahnt(n) Seal - lahsah(v) Series - bantee(n)/van Seven - vagabree Seventeen - heegasehn Shaft - tiwah(n) Sick - nyahlo(a) Simple -tehn Simply - tehnesh Single - fah Six - vagafah Sixteen - heegafah Skill - ehrehm(n) Sleep - ehdehr Sleep House - ehdehr

tomahn(n) Small - prihn(a) Some - ehrth Soon - gorvehn South - teemah(a) Span - shahfee(n)

Spit - torn(v) Stable - soygih(a) Stability - soygish(n) Start - glo(v) Step - keelehn Still - gahth(a) Story - fenah Storyteller - ti’ana(n) Straight - goyrai Strange - mihro(?) Structure - misho(?) Sunner - behhahpo (Riven) Supply - shuhfai(?) Surface - tahleeo(n) Survey - ook(v) Survive - neetsahvai(?) Swarm - hehvo(n) """"����Take - shehnto(v) Ten - naivoo Temporary - iglahrno(a) Thank - chehv(v) Thankful - cheveht That - mot Their - os(suffix) The - reh- r’ Them - sheet Then - gormot There - meet They - -eet (suffix) Think - kahnrahd(?) Thirteen - naigasehn This - meht Those - motee Though - loymaht Three - sehn Time - gor(n) To - b'(prefix) / ah / beh To the - breh Top - filahdh(n) Tower - dahsh(n)

Tree - tehr(n) Tree of Possibility -

tehrokh jehru(n) Trust - pahn(v) Tube - broon(n) Tunnel - bishtah(n) Twelve - naigabree Twenty - rish Twenty one - rigafah Twenty two - rigabree Twenty three - rigasehn Twenty four - rigator Twenty five - fahsee Two - bree ####����Unseen - lyimah Upon - f'(prefix) Us - seht

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��������B' - to Bah - beast(n) Bahr - beast people(n) Bahroneht - phosphorescent(a) Bahtsanah - map(n) Bantee - series Barehl - make(v) Bahrtah - accomplish (?) Baykh - link(v) Beh - to Behhahpo - sunner (Riven) B’fahsee - completely(to 25) Bigto - blessing(n) Bishtah - tunnel(n) Bihv - all(a)/every Blo - about(a) Bo - will Bonoo - acid(n) Boogin - creature(n) Bree - two Breh - to the B'rigahsehn - highly(to 23) Broon - tube(n)

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Chehv - thank(v) Cheveht - thankful Chileh - main(a) Chilehsh - mainly Chir - organism(n) Chiso - archivate(v) Choor - learn Choylahnay - complete(v) ����Dah’ko - marble(n) Dahsh - dome towers(n) Deretheni - jet black, light weight, artificial stone Devokan - hope(v) Dhozonehsh -however(?) Do- -ing (prefix) Don - like / as if it were Dormahdh - defeat(v) Dovah - world Doyhah - machine(n) ��������Ehdehr - sleep/rest(v) Ehdehr tomahn - sleep house(n) Ehehn - any (?) Ehflin - order(n) -Ehm - you (suffix) Endai - build (v) Ehndaitahn - builder Ehrehm - skill(n) Ehrth- - a/an/some -Ehts - ish/ly/like

��������F' - on/upon(prefix) Fah - one/single/first Fahdho - open space(?) Fahets - first Fahm - once(?) Fahsee - twenty five

Fahsh - near/at once(?) Feh- - on (prefix) Fehl - row(v) Fehltahn - rower(n) Fenah - story Filahdh - top(n) Fooruh - more(?) Freh- - at/on the (prefix) ��������G’ / Gah - and Gahlon - ground(n) Gahlpo - cave(n) Gahn - empire(n) Gahro - grand/large(a) Gahro Hehvtee - mighty

words Gahth - still(a) Garosh - mightily Garoth - Mighty One Gata - due(?) Gehstoy - art(n) Gemedet -“six-in-a-line” -game on 3D grid Gihd - excavate(v) Gihlo - plant(n) Gihtsah - safe(a) Glahs - drink(v) Glo - begin(v) Gor - time(n) Gorahn - 36 seconds Gormot - then Gorvehn - soon Goyrai - straight Greh- - and the (prefix) Grossamery - Edanna bird

��������Hahr - year Heebor - fifteen Heegabree - seventeen Heegafah - sixteen Heegasehn - eighteen

Heegator - nineteen Heek - Gehn’s cane Hehrn - room(n) Hehv - word(n) Hehvo - swarm(n) Hevkor - lexicon (word-

book) Hoor - find(v) Hootsaith - achievement(?) ��������Idsay - line(n) Iglahrno - temporary(a) Ikhah nijuhts - food Ilais - charge/power up(v) Ion - discover(v) Irvahn - mineral(n) ��������Jahgah - warrant(?) Jehru - possible(a) Jeruth - possibility Jimah - prophecy(n)

��������K' - for(prefix) Kahg - original(a) Kahgesh - originally Kahligo - The Council(v) Kahm - what Kahmrov - who Kanrahd - think(?) Kahzee - detour Kat - only(?) Keebah/i - study(?) Keelehn - step(n) Kehlanee - antelope(n) Kehn - be(v) Kehra - brave(a) Khah - few(?) Kheh- for (prefix) Khlay / klai - example(n) Khreh- - for the (prefix)

Kor - book(n) Korfah v’ja - 1st book

celebration Kormahn - Descriptive

Book(n) Kor’neeah - Blank book Kor'vahk - Linking

Book(n) Kotsah - gate(n) Kro - move(v) ��������L’ - has/have (prefix) Lahsah - seal(v) Le/leh- - has/have Leefo - 1st vihlee (month) Leebro - 2nd vihlee Leesahn - 3rd vihlee Leetar - 4th vihlee Leevot - 5th vihlee Leevofo - 6th vihlee Leevobro - 7th vihlee Leevosahn - 8th vihlee Leevotar - 9th vihlee Leenovoo - 10th vihlee Lehm - ink(n) Lehnah - journey(n) Lehsh - rule(n) Lon- - discover(v) Loopah - risk/venture(?) Loymaht - though Lyimah - unseen ��������M’ - from/out of(prefix) Mahn - bring(v)

- existance Mahnshooth - death-bringer Mahrehnt - follow(v) Mahrg - layer Mahrn - create(v) Mahrntahn - creator Mahrntahv - creation

Meet - there Meh - from/of Mehgoyrai - straight out Mehlin - outer Meh'oor - you're welcome Mehr - watch Mehrk - poisoned water Mehs- - require/need(v) Meht - this Mihro - strange(?) Misho - structure(?) Mishtah - construct M'la - lizard/salamander(n) Mor - heart(?) Mot - which/that Motee - those Muhkhon - very/much(?) ��������N' - around Na'grehnis - brittle(a) Nahvah - Master(n) Nai - root Naigabree - twelve Naigafah - eleven Naigasehn - thirteen Naigator - fourteen Naivoo - ten Nara - a synthetically

manufactured stone Nee - new/fresh/clean(a) Neeah - blank/empty(a) Neetsahvai - survive(?) Nehtso - manufacture(?) Norehf - finally(a) Nyahlo - sick(a) Nyaloth - sick one(n) ��������Oglahn - ancient Okh- - of(suffix) -Om - your(suffix) -On - his/her/its(suffix)

Ook - survey(v) Oolbah - office(n) Oonahn - leadership(?) Oonray - lord(n) Ooshah - formula(n) -Os - their(suffix) -Ot - our(suffix) -Oy - my(suffix) ��������P’ - on Pahboy - bless(v) Pahm - or Pahn - trust(v) Pahrah - large(a) Pahrahth - greatness(a) Pahrkh - pray(?) Pahts - city(n) Paipeel - anticipate(?) Pehkai - equal(?) Poahnt - saliva(n) Pod - each Poy - bulb(n) Prad - rock(n) Pradteegahl - rock-working Prihn - little(a) Prorahn - 1.5 seconds Prorahntee - gorahn divided into 25 �R’ - the Rahm - good(a) Re’dantee - tweezers in game of gemedet Reekoo - Ader Jamat creature Rees - eat(v) Reeslo - dissolve(v) Reh- - the (prefix) Rehk - class(?) Rehm - flow(v)

Relyimah - unseen slaves of Terahnee Rigabree - twenty two Rigafah - twenty one Rigasehn - twenty three Rigator - twenty four Rihl - no/not Rilnar - easy(?) Rilteh -without Rish - twenty Robot - actual(a) Roo - that Rooay - route(n) Roob - but/however Roon - zero Roshee - crater(n) Rov - person(n) Rovtee - people(n) Royv - but(?)

!!!!����Sai/y - design(v) Sehk - have(v) Sehl - write(v) Sehltahn - writer Sehn - three(n) Seht - us Sehv - age(n) Shahfee - span(n) Sheet - them Shehm - you Shehmtee - you (plural) Shehn - him/her/it Shehnto - take(v) Shin - able/can Shokoo - instruct(v) Shoo - dead(a) Shooth - death(n) Shorah - peace/

hello/farewell Shuhfai - supply(?)(v) (Sh)(p)uhlehn - drawn

Shuteejoo - rocksalt(n) Sifay - power up(v)

- wired Soygih - stable(a) Soygish - stability(n) Squee - a J’nanin creature Stofah - of one """"����T' - in/at/with/of/by Tahg - give(v) Tahgahm - know(v) Tahleeo - surface(n) Tahm - fire(n) -Tahv - -ion/-tion (suffix) Tahvo - 14.5 min . in 25 gorahntee Taygahn - love(v) Tayr - help Teeg - work(v) Teegahl - working Teegtahn - worker Teegtahv - work(n) Teemah - South Teh - by, with, in Tehl - guild(n) Tehn - simple Tehnehsh - simply Tehr - tree(n) Tehrehlin - contact(n) Tehrokh jeru - tree of possibility(n) Tehrpahrah - Great Tree Tehrth - in, a, of, as a Tehs - group(n) Thoeh - how Ti’ana - storyteller(n) Tihmehn - gallery (?) Tiwah - shaft(n) To - place(?) Tokitu - determine(v) Tomahn - house(n)

Toogo - foot(n) Tool - grow(v) Tor - four Toran - unit of angular elevation Torn - spit(v) Treh - at/in/near/with/of the Trehn - few Trom - wing(n) Tromehts - winged Tsahn - always/forever Tsahno - everlasting Tsahnosh - permanently Tsahv - live(v) Tsahvahn - immortal(a) Tseemahahl - usual(?) Tso - of Tsoid - glow(v) Tsoidahl - glowing

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