Please update this to include senses for every gloss where it may not be clear.
account - janta (in one sense)
against - fapro, fa'a, (English def. is too loose, word is built into many gismu)
almost - na'e (?), na'e ru'e, na ru'e, jibni
among - jbini
amount - ni, klani
and - .e, je, ge, gi'e, jo'u, joi.
any -
as - sometimes "du'i"
at - zvati, bu'u
between - jbini (amidst), snuji (sandwich filling), bi'i (connective)
boy - nanla
branch - jimca (literal)
by - finti, lamji, zo'a
chain - linsi
change - galfi, stika, cenba
cheap - tolkargu
cheese - cirla
chemical - xukmi
chest - cutne
chief - ralju
chin - (related to xedja)
church - malsi
circle - cuktai
clean - jinsa (is clean), lumci (to clean)
clear - klina
clock - junla
cloth - bukpu
cloud - dilnu
coal - kolme
coat - kosta
cold - lenku (is cold)
collar - karli
colour - skari
comb -
come - klama
comfort -
committee -
common - fadni, kampu
company -
comparison -
competition -
complete -
complex - pluja
condition -
connection -
conscious - cikna
control - jitro
cook - jukpa
copper - tunka; pulji
copy - fukpi
cord - skori
cork -
cotton -
cough -
country -
cover - gacri
cow - bakni
crack -
credit -
crime -
cruel -
crush -
cry - klaku
cup - kabri; (???? -> hold closely and gently)
current -
curtain -
curve - kruvi
cushion -
damage -
danger -
dark -
daughter -
day -
dead -
dear -
death -
debt -
decision -
deep -
degree -
delicate -
dependent -
design -
desire - djica
destruction -
detail - tcila
development -
different -
digestion -
direction -
dirty -
discovery -
discussion -
disease -
disgust -
distance -
distribution -
division -
do -
dog - gerku
door - vrogai
doubt -
down - cnita
drain -
drawer -
dress -
drink - pinxe/se pinxe; xalka?
driving -
drop -
dry -
dust -
ear -
early -
earth -
east -
edge -
education -
effect -
egg -
elastic - pruni
electric -
end -
engine -
enough -
equal - dunli (see also mintu, panra)
error - srera
even -
event -
ever -
every - ro (also 'each')
example -
exchange - canja
existence -
expansion -
experience -
expert - certu
eye - kanla
face - flira
fact - fatci
fall - farlu
false - jitfa
family -
far -
farm -
fat - plana
father - patfu
fear - terpa
feather -
feeble -
feeling -
female -
fertile -
fiction -
field -
fight -
finger -
fire -
first -
fish - finpe; fipkalte in agentive sense
fixed - nalmu'u 'unmoving' ;te lasna (something static which is attached to); pu cikre;pu lasna (in 'attached' sense); pu frati (in sense 'dealt with')
flag - lanci; ??? in sense 'make specifically visible'
flame - fagri
flat - pinta; plita; ??? in sense 'compact urban dwelling'
flight - nu vofli
floor - loldi; lolgai in sense 'covering of bottom layer'; le darxi ku falgau (in sense 'strike down'; one might also be floored like {le nu desku ku falri'a})
flower - xrula; nu xrula, in event sense
fly - vofli; sfani (insect sense)
fold - polje in causative sense; cinje, te polje in 'physical feature' sense
food - cidja
foolish - bebna
foot - jamfu; jmagutci in 'unit' sense
for - nothing. 'for X' might be te zu'e, fi'o tergu'a, fi'o tergunta; mukti; 'for x reason' = ki'u; "for each X, there is a Y which broda's X" — use zo'u prenexes and da, de, di
force - bapli 'compel'; danre, lafti, polje, se randa, te tinsa, ve rinci, se ranti, mosra, marxa, lanxe, jicla, katna, se jdari, se fapro, desku, se torni for various kinds of forces being yielded to, resisted, ignored.
fork - forca; jimca in 'tree branch' sense; jimca pe'a in 'branch in path' sense;
form - tarmi; binxo in sense 'create formation'; various places: binxo, se binxo, se banro, te marji - use a specific gismu eg boxfo, bolci, bliku if you want to say X is eg. of spherical form.; ??? in sense 'bureaucratic paperwork'
group - girzu; ganzu fi lo girzu ('group together'/ put into a group)
growth - nu banro; banro in the sense of 'plant growth'
guide - gidva
gun - cecla
hair - kerfa
hammer - mruli; jusxai in sense 'severely damage'
hand - xance
hanging - dandu 'hang'
happy - gleki
harbour
hard - jdari
harmony -
hat -
hate -
have -
he -
head - stedu
healthy - kanro
hear - tirna
hearing -
heart -
heat -
help -
high -
history -
hole -
hollow -
hook -
hope -
horn -
horse -
hospital -
hour -
house -
how -
humour -
I - mi
ice - bisli
idea -
if -
ill -
important -
impulse -
in - ne'i; nenri
increase -
industry -
ink - xinmo
insect -
instrument -
insurance -
interest -
invention -
iron -
island -
jelly -
jewel -
join - jorne
journey -
judge -
jump - plipe
keep -
kettle -
key - ckiku
kick - tikpa
kind -
kiss - cinba
knee -
knife -
knot -
knowledge -
land -
language -
last -
late -
laugh -
law -
lead -
leaf -
learning -
leather -
left -
leg -
let -
letter -
level -
library -
lift -
light - gusni
like -
limit -
line -
linen -
lip - ctebi
liquid -
list -
little -
living - jmive
lock - stela
long - clani
look -
loose -
loss -
loud -
love - prami
low -
machine - minji
make -
male -
man -
manager -
map -
mark -
market -
married -
mass -
match -
material -
may -
meal -
measure -
meat -
medical -
meeting -
memory -
metal -
middle -
military -
milk -
mind -
mine -
minute -
mist -
mixed -
money -
monkey -
month -
moon -
morning -
mother -
motion -
mountain -
mouth -
move -
much -
muscle -
music -
nail -
name -
narrow -
nation -
natural -
near -
necessary -
neck -
need -
needle -
nerve -
net -
new -
news -
night -
no -
noise -
normal -
north -
nose -
not -
note -
now -
number -
nut -
observation -
of -
off -
offer -
office -
oil -
old -
on -
only -
open -
operation -
opinion -
opposite -
or -
orange -
order -
organization -
ornament -
other -
out -
oven -
over -
owner -
page -
pain -
paint -
paper -
parallel -
parcel -
part -
past -
paste -
payment -
peace -
pen -
pencil -
person -
physical -
picture -
pig -
pin -
pipe -
place -
plane -
plant -
plate -
play -
please -
pleasure -
plough -
pocket -
point -
poison -
polish -
political -
poor -
porter -
position -
possible -
pot -
potato -
powder -
power -
present -
price -
print -
prison -
private -
probable -
process -
produce -
profit -
property -
prose -
protest -
public -
pull -
pump -
punishment -
purpose -
push -
put -
quality -
question - preti 'question(s)'; senpi 'i question the truth of that'; se danfu (in the context of answering a question). cf what, where, when, why; cf pau, xu, ma, mo, ji, je'i, ge'i, gi'i, gu'i, cu'e, xo, fi'a, pei, kau, ki'a, go'i
quick - sutra
quiet - smaji
quite - see 'very'
rail -
rain - carvi
range -
rat - ratcu
rate - parbi 'rate of X relative to Y'
ray -
reaction -
reading -
ready -
reason -
receipt -
record -
red - xunre
regret -
regular -
relation -
religion - lijda
representative -
request -
respect -
responsible -
rest -
reward -
rhythm -
rice -
right -
ring -
river -
road -
rod -
roll -
roof -
room -
root -
rough -
round -
rub -
rule -
run -
sad -
safe -
sail -
salt -
same -
sand -
say -
scale -
school -
science -
scissors -
screw -
sea -
seat -
second -
secret -
secretary -
see -
seed -
seem -
selection -
self - sevzi
send - benji
sense - ganse
separate -
serious -
servant -
sex - gletu
shade -
shake -
shame -
sharp -
sheep -
shelf -
ship -
shirt -
shock -
shoe -
short -
shut -
side -
sign -
silk -
silver -
simple - sampu
sister -
size -
skin -
skirt -
sky -
sleep -
slip -
slope -
slow -
small -
smash -
smell -
smile -
smoke -
smooth -
snake -
sneeze -
snow -
so -
soap -
society -
sock -
soft -
solid -
some -
son - bersa (pref. verba). nanla more rarely
song - se sanga
sort - ganzu; cf. porsi
sound -
soup -
south -
space -
spade -
special -
sponge -
spoon -
spring -
square -
stage -
stamp -
star -
start -
statement -
station -
steam -
steel -
stem -
step -
stick -
sticky -
stiff -
still -
stitch -
stocking -
stomach -
stone -
stop -
store -
story -
straight -
strange -
street -
stretch -
strong -
structure -
substance -
such -
sudden -
sugar -
suggestion -
summer -
sun -
support -
surprise -
sweet -
swim -
system -
table -
tail -
take -
talk -
tall -
taste -
tax -
teaching -
tendency -
test -
than -
that -
the -
then -
theory -
there -
thick -
thin -
thing -
this -
thought -
thread -
throat -
through -
through -
thumb -
thunder -
ticket -
tight -
thunder - lidysna
ticket - pikta
tight - tagji (close fitting); trati (taut). {lo tagji} actually makes sense as a xelfanva for 'tights'
till - rupydacru?; plixa; (till, not 'til)
time - temci (period of time); tcika (point in time); see 'day','night'
tin - tinci
tired - tatpi
to - n/a mostly; sometimes bi'o seems to be meant, often "fa'a"
toe - tamji
together - .a or JOI (almost any JOI; joi itself is most typical.) in
some senses, kansa ; i'i
tomorrow - bavlamdei
tongue - tance
tooth - denci
top - drudi; se cpana (additional implications vs drudi); creka ('put on a top') -
touch - pensu; ganse for 'sense of touch'?; re'o (locational sense);"pencu", kuspe *for 'spans X to Y, touching Z';