Siangwaanian glossary

This is a list of terms in the Siangwaanian language, the national language of the republic of Siangwaan.

A

* ai sa - happy
* ài - life
* āk - ingot, scrap
* a-loʟ-hon - (S) arhat
* ā-rauʟ-koz - (V) *araukoz* gryphon, nuisance, joke

Aa
--

* āau - to have
* aauʟ zīk - favourite

B

* ba - a spear, a pike
* bá - (archaic) ten thousand; (nowadays) a group of 10,000 members or parts
* bá kei - a metropolis, a city of 10,000 people
	+ Not all bá kei cities in Siangwaan literally have 10,000 people and above.
* baiʟ - (CD) defeat, failure, loss, ruin
* bán - board, plank, beam
* bān ngōn - good evening
* bāt - (CD) eight
* bāat - no, not
* baa - jousting lance
* bāat-yan-kēi-gen - nobody cares
	+ (a derisive slogan towards news reporters for being busybodies)
* béik - (CD) to evade, to dodge, to avoid
* bēn douʟ - where
* bēn gó - who
* biá - a period of 10,000 years
* bōk - north

Ch
--

* chàm yatʟ - yesterday
* cháo ngōn - good morning (after 6 am or sunrise)
* chāt - (CD) seven
* cha giēn - goodbye
* chatʟ - to grant, to confer, to bless
* chaanggìm - to take part in a contest, to attend
* chaangìm dáang - a contestant, a player
* chaau ngen - equality
* chengʟ chengʟ - excuse me
* chéun - foolish
* cheungʟ, chaangʟ - jousting pauldron
* chīzongʟ - torrent, sweeping current, strong flow of water
* chiʟ mouʟ - (CD) old age, later sunset, closer to death
* chiè - relaxed, free
* chiè lok - freedom
* chin - (CD) cent, a coin
* chō chí hwa - (CD) initialising
* chói - racing, a race
* chōng maanʟ, kiòng chōng - (CD) atmosphere
* Chōng Tiēn - (CD) Heaven, the gods; (poetic) the sky, azure sky; (monotheism) God
* Chōng Tiēn Mōn Suòi - (CD) Praise Heaven/Thank Heaven/Long Live Heaven, it is very good, I'm in luck
* Chōng Tiēn yí séi; Hwòng Tiēn dōng laapʟ/ChTYI;HTDL - (CD, sl) the Azure Sky is dead, the Yellow Sky is set up; hip hip hurrah; I did it for the lulz; YOLO
	+ Often shortened to Chōng séi Hwòng laapʟ (ChSHL)
* chóng - village

D

* dá - one
* dálōk - independent, sovereign
* daʟ-kiāo nuè - unicorn, horse with one horn
* dazitʟ - to prevail, to triumph, to win
* dak - end, final
* dap - hill
* dapʟ - mace, club
* dā - father
* dāi - great
* Dāi giēt dāi lei, giām ōm(séw) sekʟ giēp - (CD, sl) Lucky for you, we'll eat chicken tonight; all or nothing; I've won
* daiʟ - or
* daiʟ - ceremony
* dáihoʟ (CD, 带祜, now archaic) - greetings, "bring blessing"
	+ Replaced by "ket sho do naa", which uses the corresponding dialectal words.
* Dan Cheun - Start of Spring, New Year
* dāng - parent
* dào - branch
* daa - very much
* dáa - order, divine order, plan of the gods
* Dáalàu - Wheel of Dharma, Dharmachakra, symbol of Buddhism
* dáai - to bring
* dàai - to learn (a skill)
* dàai mé - to train (usually to fight)
* daaiʟ dī - (CD) other people
* dáang - a contestant, a doer
* dek ziapʟ - to whack road signs, unruly, frustration
* dēng - metal
* dēng - lantern
* dí - what
* diè bán - elimination
* dikʟyán - enemy
* dím - how
* dím gáai - why
* dím shaakʟ - how much
* dīm - steel
* dō - many, a lot
* doʟ - eclipse, horror, shadow, gap, void, grasp, death
* dói - may there be
* doiʟ - but
* Doiʟzaau - (CD) Daizhou
	+ Daizhou's name was intentionally *mis*pronounced to show that Siangwaan is *no longer* the same as its motherland. In older times, pronouncing Daizhou's name correctly would lead to accusations of treason against Siangwaan.
* dok saau - solitaire
* dók - (CD) large town
* dók dài - dictatorship, autocracy
* dōk - skull
* dōng - east
* dú - five
* dú - ancient
* duʟ - to obstruct, to block
* duā - man, person
* duoʟ - to drag

E

* ei - yellow
* ei niè - this
* ei yatʟ - today

G

* gā - family
* gaʟ - eight
* gái - true, correct
* gái shi - (CD) when
* gāi - chicken, rooster
* gāk leiʟ - next
* gào - powerful, mighty
* gào gāng - aspiration
* gaai - world
* gáan po waiʟ - almost damaged, dilapidated
* géi - (CD) willow
* giem hiapʟ, gēmhioʟ - (CD) a swordsman, a wandering hero
* gèndō - more than
* gènsiū - less than
* geuiʟ - last, remaining
* giáo - (CD) nine
* giā yau - (CD) come on!
* giēp zō - chicken meat
* giēu - to refer someone as, to call someone as
* gié - well-being
* ging - well, cistern
* ging - fit, muscular, handsome/beautiful
* gong góng - maternal grandfather
* gōuméng - help

Gw
--

* gwán - lance, pole
* gwanʟ - to snatch
* gwanʟ kiào - abduction
* gwanʟ le - robbing, robbery
* gwep zō - pork
* gwo - (CD) to approach a god or someone holy, (formal) to visit
* ... gwo - already did ...
* gwok - (CD) country

H

* ... há - still doing
* hán ngōn - good afternoon
* hangʟ - to hide
* hangʟ - to build, to set up, to assemble
* hangʟ, hiangʟ - to go
* hangʟ gāi - (CD) strolling, shopping, to go buy things, to wander around at a shopping mall
* hangʟ güʟ - a small machine, a small robot
* hèyóng - to hope, to wish for
* héi - wake up
* heng - like, resembling
* hèw - arch
* hēung - (CD) countryside
* hēungzé - (CD) rural
* Hiām Ka - City of the Sky, Heaven, City of the Gods
* hià - down
* hiàzáo - escape
* hiaangʟ, kwaangʟ, luaangʟ - freezing cold
* hie máai - torment, agony
* hiēk - blade
* hiēn - great joy
* hin - orange
* hīng - to return, to come back
* hīng gié - rehabilitation, recovery
* hiok - pyre
* hiōm, hiām - sky
* hiōm lé - All Under Heaven, the whole country, (our) Siangwaan
* hiōng - hope
* hiōng - (CD) horrible, inauspicious, dangerous
* hiónaaʟ - changing, unstable
* hó - sad
* hoi - sea
* ... hōi - usually does
* hōi pā - scared, to be afraid
* hokʟ - darkness, shadow, dim
* homʟ - swamp
* Hong Chi - (CD) Confucius, a cruel person
* hong̀ chàa - red tea
* hongʟ - from
* hongʟ - inner darkness, agony
* hóu wanʟ - (CD) good luck
* hòu - sorrow, agony, dread
* huà liong - angry
* hüʟ - deep darkness, abyss
* hǖt - snow
* hǜt - weakness
* hütʟ, shütʟ - blood

I

* iʟ - child

K

* kà - city
* kang deuʟ - homework
* káo - character
* kào - roast
* karʟkì, kaʟrikì - (V) spinel
* ket shō doʟ naa - greetings, nice to meet you
* kiāo - horn
* kiew ... - (future tense), will ...
* kīn - (CD) gold (substance)
* kó - fire
* koʟ - scratch, a letter
* kóng - dark metal
* kúi - he/she/it

Kw
--

* kwaai - fragment, piece, chip

L

* lam bà - fire, shoot
* lao kang - self-sufficiency
* láng - pale light, moonlight
* lā - three
* laʟ bā - older brother
* laʟ néi - older sister
* láo zō - beef
* lào - cold
* lapʟ wai - (CD) orderly domination, authoritarianism, tyranny
* làu - wheel
* láa - draw
* laauʟ - a round of a game or sport, a turn, a phase, a session, a match
* lé - (native) down, base, lower
* lék - primitive, bottom, low-minded, vulgar
* lei - purple
* léi - to rise
* léng - (CD) hill
* lengʟ - (CD) zero
* letʟ - net
* Leun Yu - (CD) The Analects of Hong Chi, oppressive literature, instrument of oppression
* leung - mother
* leungʟ paangʟ - (CD) friend
* lí bā - older sister
* lí néi - younger sister
* liáng - sun
* liè - defeat
* liekʟtám - machine
* lién, liéng - god, deity
* likʟshí - (CD) history
* lingʟyǘ - (CD) imprisonment, jail
* līng - to visit, to approach
* lip - cricket
* ló - very much
* lokʟ - (CD) six
* lotʟ, luoʟ - root
* lóu - water
* louʟ - (CD) skull
* lúlapʟ - pipe
* luté - dangerous
* lū - nine
* luan - name
* luén - medium
* lúi - surely
* lúi - to steal
* lúi le - stealing
* ... lúi māi - ... or not?
* luk - ice
* lūndaakʟ - to plunder
* lút, sói, tuok, sunʟ - year (cycle)

M

* maʟ maʟ - maternal grandfather
* mái - rice
* mán niè - that
* mán nienʟ - (CD) final years, sad time, closer to death
* māng - to visit
* mangʟ - scared
* maanʟ - moon
* maanʟ - sea
* máao dēk - compulsory, (slang) test, examination
* ... māat yeʟ - (CD) what
* Méi-chaaʟ-liēng - (K) Ten Thousand Blessings, derived from a patriotic Kjongkjong name for Siangwaan, "Mengcha-baljeng".
	+ It also sounds like the Siangwaanian words for "valiant beauty".
* ... meiʟ ... - has someone ... or not
* miào - magic
* miet - (CD) destruction
* minbén - allow, permit, consent
* míng sāan - welcome
* mingʟ bak - (CD) purpose
* mióu - blossom, flower
* mít - (T) honey
* mo-sen shin-gan - (CD) wireless news, national news broadcasting service
* mó - I
* mómē - my
* mómē wanʟchiʟ - I am sorry
* mōt - on, at a place
* móyā - we
* mō - red
* mok - goods
* mōn suòi, muon suòi - ten thousand ages, long live
* móng gauʟ - defiant
* mongʟ - (CD) to wish for, to yearn for
* -mouʟ - not done, cannot
* ... mouʟ ... - does someone ... or not
* muā - change, to become, to turn into
* muā shengʟ - becoming, transformation
* mún - door
* muon cheui - (CD) a great army of tanks
* muon pang - (CD) everywhere, all over
* muon sei - (CD) may you die ten thousand times, death to ...

N

* ná - one (in compounds)
* namʟ - south
* naa - thou, you
* naa lúi bēn go - who are you
* naamē - thy, your
* Naamo Omeitophot - (CD, S) Namo Amitabha ("Hail to You, Amitabha", 南無阿彌陀佛), a prayer of blessing and peace
* naayā - you
* nàai - to die, death
* naaiʟ - death, moribund, ruined, morbid, sad
* nièt - year (twelve months)
* nien - (CD) year
* ník - child
* níng - two (in compounds)
* Nioʟ Giā - (CD) Ruism, the teachings of Hong Chi; authoritarianism
	+ In older times, Siangwaan reviled Ruism as the cause of its homeland's backwardsness, and therefore condemned it as an "oppressive ideology".
* nót, niót - festival, rite
* nóm - brown
* nou - through
* nū la - (V) bread
* nuè - horse
* nuè chēung, má chēung - (CD) horse-spear, jousting
* nuè chēung dáang, chēung dáang - (CD) a jouster
* nuè chói, wói - horse race
* nuè chói dáang, wói dáang - (CD) a horse racer
* nuè dáang - a horse rider
* nuè gwán - jousting
* nuè gwán dáang - (CD) a jouster
* nút, tòk - to stop

Ng
--

* ngāi - love
* ... ngaa - (interrogative)
* ngok - country
* ngōn - peace
* ngōnzá - mediator, counselor, peacemaker, hero, one who stops a disaster

O

* ō - two
* ōm(séw) - night
* ong - good
* ong yǖn - good luck
* ongʟ - (CD) five

P

* pan - flat
* pāng - wind
* Phaat - the Dharma, the law of Buddhism
* pé - pink
* Phot, Phot da - (S) Buddha
* Phot Giào - Buddhism
* phu saat - (S) bodhisattva
* po pó - maternal grandmother
* pō waiʟ - (CD) damaged, broken, vandalised, run-down
* poi - (CD, 匪) - bandit, terrorist, raider
* pōikan - apple
* pōt - porcelain
* puái - swiftness, agility, sharpness of mind; swift, sharp-minded, agile

R

* rasià - (V) awakening, awareness, renaissance

S

* sa - green
* saʟ - and
* sam - (CD) new, updated, recent, later era
* sam nien - (CD) new year
* sān - silver
* saa - day
* sāa - joy, happiness
* sāam - (CD) three
* sáap - write
* saatʟ - to kill
* saa-saa kēi-gen - always cares
* sé - daylight
* séi - (CD) four
* séi shing daai - (CD, Buddhism) Four Noble Truths
* séi - (CD, stronger) to die (especially via a cruel/horrific means), cruel death
* sèi - west
* sekʟ - to eat
* sīm - sunbeam, ray
* siek - (CD) to mourn, to lament
* siék - (CD, elegant) write
* siū - less
* sói - year, stage
* sói - fry
* sói gep - fried egg
* són - black
* sóng - trove
* sún - conduit, nexus, centre, axis, pillar
* süʟ - frost

Sh
--

* sha - star
* shái - yes
* shān - mountain
* shāng - magpie
* shapʟ - (CD) ten
* shàa - to charge
* Shāam Mokʟ (森目, CD) - "Eyes of the Forest", Siangwaanian jungle snipers
* shàan - (CD) deity, god, higher god
* shàan yiʟ - (CD) gods and spirits, the supernatural
* sháang - province
* shāau - to burn
* shaauʟ dikʟ - (CD) great enemy
* shēngsaan - (CD) believe
* shengʟ - morning
* shengʟ - (CD) change
* shengʟ da - (CD) to become
* shengʟ ngōn - good morning (before 6 am or sunrise)
* shèwk - scorching hot
* Shēung Yēung (zaai/gwaai) - a very strict person; a tyrant; a heartless, soulless person
* sheungʟ - up
* shiʟ - to begin, to start
* shiʟwaaiʟ - (CD) bodyguards, retinue, elite guards or troops
* shó - six
* shong - smooth
* shuʟ - one hundred
* Shuʟ Koʟ - Hundred Scratches, a phonetic alphabet used to pronounce Siangwaanian and local languages.
* shúi - rain
* shǖ banʟ - (CD) literary
* shütʟshāa - bloodshed, horrific violence

T

* taché - to set free, to liberate
* tamʟ - to stand
* tang - people
* tang daa - fairness
* tang lok - unity
* tang yok - fairness
* tang zo - republic, democracy
* tāng zó - thank you (for help)
* tát - field
* tāa - against
* tek - seven
* tēn, tīn, tiēn - (CD) sky, Heaven
* tēng - problem
* tēng yàng - incident
* tēng yatʟ - tomorrow
* tià - knowledge
* tiamʟ - war, conflict, battle
* tie naa - determination
* Tiēn Hià - (CD) All Under Heaven, the world, other countries, Daizhouvian or Siangwaanian monarchy, our land
* tīng - gold
* to dā - grandfather
* to leung - grandmother
* tó - elder
* tói - to see
* tói naa lēi - see you again, may we meet again
* tōk - tree
* tokʟzí - map
* tòk - to halt, to impede, "stop" (in road signs)
* tòng bouʟ hwa - (CD) synchronising
* tou - they
* tūn món - speech, dialogue
* tuō - rice farm
* tuò - any farm
* tuò tát - farm field, farmland

W

* wai - for
* wai lái - thank you (for something)
* wài - out
* waaiʟ - bad
* waan weng - awareness
* wanʟ - blue
* wē - odd, strange, alien
* wēyan - an alien
* wéi - zero
* Wong Sheungʟ - (CD) Your Majesty, Emperor
* wongʟ - (CD) wight
* wongʟpo - (CD) madam wight
* wongʟye - (CD) sir wight
* wuk - (good) luck, fortune

Y

* yā - (plural)
* yā zangʟ - riot, mob
* yam yeung - yin-yang, harmony
* yám - to drink
* yamʟwēn - dynamic, unstable
* yan - person
* ... yānbienʟ, ... yānyütʟ, ... héiyeukʟ - (CD) May you have a happy ...
	+ Dálōk Zit Héiyeukʟ! - Happy Independence Day!
	+ Pu-rul-li Yānyütʟ! - Happy Purulli/Happy New Year!
	+ Zom-yo-nor-se Dansheng Yānyütʟ!/Zom Zit Yānyütʟ! - Happy Zomjonor's Birthday!
* yàng - matter, subject
* yangʟ - wish; to wish for, to yearn for
* yāt - (CD) one
* yāt - night
* yāt ngōn - good night
* yáu - friend
* yaubôro - (V) gryphon
* yáan - twenty
* yàaudong(ze), yàaudo - (CD) bandit, robber
* -ye - (genitive), something's
* ye yé - paternal grandfather
* yén shā - violin
* yenʟ - protest, to object
* yè - four
* yèw - cat
* yeʟ - (CD) two
* yepʟ zō - fish meat
* yèw, yièw - to want
* yèuk - right
* yíng - daughter
* yít - hot
* yocháu - mourning, grief, sorrow
* yó - favourable, good
* yok - white
* yóm - to align, to adjust
* yón - chaos, horror
* yónggaai - (CD, sl) world of courage, noblebright
* yòng - pink hair, wisteria, Ontemazei
* yongʟ - choice, option
* yóu - (CD) to pester, to disturb, to irritate, irritating
* yú - chaos, turmoil, disorder
* yǜ - (CD) remaining amount, final years, ending
* yüʟ - heal
* yüen - round, a unit of currency, dollar, credit
* yüén - primordial order, divine order
* yük - (CD, sl) jade
* yǖt - small

Z

* zái - son
* zài - bigger incident, disaster
* zák - termination, death
* zakʟ - (CD) swamp
* zàm - silkworm
* zamʟ - shatter, break down
* zān (haiʟ) - surely
* zanʟ ché - please
* zang da - justice
* záo - (CD, sl) Let's go!
* zāau - nation, land
* zaauʟ - to destroy
* zaauʟdaʟ - destruction, ruin, devastation
* zengʟ - (CD) clean, tidy
* zéung - (CD) battle
* zi - (CD) knowledge
* ziʟ yàau - (CD) liberty
* zí - to stop
* zíyaoʟ - only, just
* ziā - woman
* ziapʟ - sign, road sign
* zīm - steel
* zín - (CD) war
* zínsheng - (CD) conquer
* zīng - neighbourhood, district
* ziok - region
* zit - (CD) festival
* zo - country
* zó - have done
* zō - meat
* zōi - in
* zòk - ten
* zòk shó - sixteen
* zong, ngōng - (CD) foolish, stupid
* zōng - centre
* zóu nienʟ - (CD) early years, youth
* zù zaak - torture
* zun - discord, disorder
* zütʟgaai - (CD) world of ruin, grimdark
* zütʟmongʟ - (CD) despair

## Trivia

* The author based Siangwaanian on his native language, Cantonese. The addition of *sh* and the distinction between *eu* and *ew* were from his dissatisfaction with how the language has changed.
	+ Over thousands of years of separation from its Daizhouvian motherland, the Siangwaans' language has changed as its words were replaced by dialectal terms. Eventually these terms became a vocabulary that was so different from the original that (aside from a portion of classical terms) Siangwaanian was no longer mutually intelligible with any modern Daizhouvian dialect, becoming a separate language.
	+ At one point in Siangwaan's history, its people and government used dialectal terms to "purify" their language, removing Daizhouvian terms to make themselves more "independent".
	+ Siangwaanians used Classical Daizhouvian as a literary language, even when they were fighting against their former homeland. They also use Sarmelonid, Gauvajut, and (in lesser cases) pure Siangwaanian and Old Ardeschen as literary languages.
	+ When praying to their gods, they mostly speak in their own languages with Classical Daizhouvian terms (like séi shing daai and phu saat, "Four Noble Truths" and "bodhisattva"), or they would chant mantras in Josolchir or Gauvajut, depending on which god are they praying to. For example, when praying to Amitabha Buddha, they use Daizhouvian, and when they ask Tarhunz to protect them they recite Gauvajut prayers.

### Pronunciation:

* aa - [ɐ]
* b - [p]
* bp - [b], also spelled as b
* ch - [t͡sʰ~t͡ɕʰ]
* d - [t]
* dt - [d], also spelled as d
* eu - [ø]
* ew - [eu] (e-u becomes this)
* g - [k]
* gk - [g], also spelled as g
* k - [kʰ], [-k]
* ng - [ŋ]
* p - [pʰ], [-p]
* ph - [ɸ~pʰ] in religious terms. Spelled as ф.
* sh - [ɕ]
* t - [tʰ], [-t]
* y - [j]
* z - [t͡s]; [z], [-s] in Vozonid loanwords
* a - middle tone
* á - rising tone
* ā - high tone, long vowel in foreign languages
* à - falling tone
* aʟ - low tone

* Other marks:
	+ (CD) - Classical Daizhouvian word
	+ (S) - Sanskrit loanword
	+ (T) - Tuksharan loanword
	+ (V) - Vozonid loanword
	+ (K) - Kjongkjong loanword
	+ (sl) - slang

## See also

* Siangwaanian calendar
* Siangwaanian Vozonid words
* Siangwaanian slang
* Josolchir glossary
* Heronoi glossary
* Bujanski glossary
* Marnosyn glossary
* Siangwaanian curses (NSFW)