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Last updated on 2/17/98
This is a first stab at an Oynprith lexicon, courtesy of Seth Blumberg. It includes all words from Alien Module 3: Droyne, as well as a few of his own devising, and all four Oynprith words used so far by Rafe. All interested parties are welcome to contribute.
| aydih: | warrior |
| aydin: | worker |
| aydirsoth: | drone |
| aykrusk: | leader |
| ayssath: | technician |
| dreskay: | extended family, clan |
| droyn: | the Droyne race, a group of Droyne (sing. droy) |
| esivoy: | to divide or bud off; of a tyafelm, dreskay or oytrip, to undergo schism |
| Eskayloyt: | the Droyne homeworld, lit. 'lost home'. |
| eskay: | home |
| esorde: | caste (pl. esorden) |
| -in: | plural suffix, becomes -n after a vowel |
| Iskyar: | casting ceremony |
| iyuksim: | scouting or exploring group sent by a dreskay (lit. 'tendril') |
| koynis: | coyn, a ritual divinatory piece |
| krinaytsyu: | voluntary death for the good of the community |
| krinaytsyuni: | deathless (one who refuses krinaytsyu) |
| kroyloss: | fraternity (wandering group of young Droyne) |
| loyt: | lost (from esloy, to lose forever) |
| -ni: | negative suffix |
| ordkrepussevtre: | partially digested food regurgitated by a species of small biting parasitic insects found on several Droyne worlds in Lishun sector |
| oydray: | father (more precisely, the leader of a Droyne's natal tyafelm) |
| oytrip: | community |
| praytsirv: | sport |
| pruox: | darkness |
| pruotsin: | demons, lit. 'dark ones' (sing. pruots); common obscenity |
| Ssoyrithkeen Aynit: | the Six Ritual Indignities, a methodical desecration of the corpse of a captured warrior of an enemy oytrip; a common form of declaration of ritual warfare between oytripin [note: this phrase needs to be broken down into morphemes] |
| tyafelm: | nuclear family |
| yaskoydray: | grandfather (more precisely, the senior priestly leader of a Droyne's natal dreskay) |
| Yaskoydray: | Grandfather (mythical Droyne species hero, supposedly the inventor of the casting ceremony and the coyns) |
| mats: | zero |
| mu: | one |
| ik: | two |
| op: | three |
| fe: | four |
| at: | five |
| keen: | 'ten' (six10) |
| elm: | 'eleven' (seven10) |
| ask: | 'twelve' (eight10) |
| oyp: | 'thirteen' (nine10) |
| ets: | 'fourteen' (ten10) |
| urs: | 'fifteen' (eleven10) |
| der: | 'twenty' (twelve10) |
| helop: | 'thirty' (1810) |
| helfe: | 'forty' (2410) |
| helat: | 'fifty' (3010) |
| kyu: | 'one hundred' (626 == 3610) |
| syu: | 'one thousand' (636 == 21610) |
| fyak: | 'one million' (666 == 46,65610) |
Compound numbers are formed right-to-left, thus:
30521416 (14694110) == muhelfekyumu syuikhelat fyakop
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