~I~
ie (O/G): (adv.) Yes (Come, General response or acknowledgement)
ie'yyak-hnah (O/G): (int.) Fire Phasers!
iehyyak (O/G): (n.) Multiple Phasers ("multiple" rather than "several" phasers, especially in reference
to the combat-control area)
iesiy: (adj.) White
ifir: (n.) Fear
ifvhe: (v.) Drive, Operate, Do
ihho: (n.) Brook (affectionate term)
ihlan (D/T): (suffix) Not, non, a negative suffix used to indicate the absence or opposite of a thing.
ihmne: (n.) Quarter
ihnerha: (n.) Second (Equal to 0.55 terran seconds), the unit of time.
ihoiy: (n.) Trail
ihsein: (n.) Force (A unit of organized individuals)
ilemifv: (adj.) Sour-tasting
ilnethei: (adj.) Mercantile, having to do with commerce
imtemh: (adj.) Salty-tasting
in'hhui: (n.) Fish
iobh: (v.) Rain
ira: (adj.) Old, as in literally having age, not in the sense of being the one which came before. (I.e.,
Not 'the old car' for the car one owned before, since it is probably not literally old.)
iraha: (adj.) Oldest
irhufv: (v.) Ride
irruhah: (adj.) Secret
isaehj: (n.) Gold
isaehj'ey: (adj.) Gold-colored, Golden
ishae: (v.) Burn
isneih: (adj.) Yellow
iuke: (v.) Smell
~J~
ja: (conj.) Then (ve...ja = if...then)
jaeih: (n.) The Element Air
jarrh: (n.) Clay
jolan'tru (O/S): (int.) Greeting and Farewell, in very common usage.
jorreh: (n.) Stone
~K~
kaevra: (n.) Heart
kaidha: (n.) Aide
kaleh: (n.) Knife
kehreh: (n.) Equal to ten siruen (505 seconds), the unit of time.
keshall: (v.) Escape
khaa: (n.) Sand
khaidoa: (n.) Moonround (Month) (Changing, based upon the motions of ch'Havran (or ch'Rihan) in
the sky rather than previously mentioned time-units. Actual orbital period of the two worlds about
each other is 45.7 terran days)
khaiell: (n.) Wind
kharhifv: (adv.) Until
khau: (n.) Face (of a person)
khei: (adj.) More
khedak: (adj.) Amicable, Friendly, Agreeable
khein: (adj.) Indigo (Deep Blue Purple)
kheisran: (n.) The day before yesterday, commonly used.
kheisifv: (n.) The day after tomorrow, commonly used.
khellian (O/G): (n.) Hunter (Archaic, also a proper house-name)
khell'oann-mhehorael (D/G): (n.) The Klingon Empire (See lloann'mhrahel)
khellrea: (n.) Legion (A unit of ~8 Divisions)
khfau: (n.) Palace (almost exact, but with less of a 'rich' connotation and more of an 'honorable'
one.)
khfi: (n.) Center/Complex (with connotations of 'headquarters', Prime building, though none of these
is written in the literal translation)
khfiya: (n.) Street
khile'hrei: (n.) Intellegence agent
khina (D/M): (n.) Starship, ship, or other spacegoing vessel
khlinae: (v.) Do honor to
khoey: (adj.) Orange
khoi (O/G): (v.) Cease (Cease, switch off, finish)
kholhr (J/G): (n.) vengeance
khre'riov (O/G): (n.) Commander-General (Equivalent to a colonel of infantry or a commodore of
fleet forces)
khuea: (n.) Grass (or Sprout)
kllhe (O/G): (n.) Worm (The annelid worm, introduced to domestic hlai-pens, which ingests the
acidic dung and thus processes it to usable fertilizer. Also an insult.)
kll'inghann (O/G): (n.) The Klingon people (however see khell'oann-mhehorael)
kreh: (n.) Thing
krehii: (n.) Something
kri: (n.) Building (Structure, used almost exactly as in english. I.e., for both "Look at the buildings!"
and "Senate Building". )
kuoku: (n.) Child
kveinn: (n.) Lance
~L~
lachnofv: (v.) Execute (as a punishment)
lehe'jhme (O/T): (n.) A fruit used to make wine
lehrei: (n.) agent (a person engaged in a task)
lhaiy: (adj.) Blue
lhamhe: (adj.) Silly or Odd
lhanme: (n.) Company (A unit of ~8 platoons)
lhanntho: (n.) Battalion (A Unit of ~8 companies)
lhanv: (n.) Door
lhao: (adj.) Cool (in temperature)
lheollah: (v.) exile
lhhei (O/G): (n.) Madam
lhi (D/M): (v.) put
lhiet: (n.) Fruit
lhohnu: (n.) Silver
lhohnu'ey: (adj.) Silver-colored, Silvery
lihr (J/G): (v.) Announce
ll', lla: (n.) Now, indicative for when a thing occurs.
llaekh (D/G): (n.) Murder (Unacceptable)
llaekh-ae'rl (O/G): (n.) Laughing Murder; the practice or kata forms of a common Rihannsu unarmed
combat technique. Provenance of the name is uncertain)
llaess: (n.) Boot
llai: (v.) Die
llaihr: (n.) Death
llaiir: (n.) Flame, or fire not as the element
llaiss: (n.) Battle
llaisnen: (n.) Warrior (Archaic)
llhrei'sian (O/G): (n.) Diarrhea (as a result of mild food poisoning; a term exactly equivalent to "The
runs." "The Titanian two-step." "The (any number of edible object)'s revenge."
llhusra: (n.) curse
lliash: (n.) ice
llifv: (n.) Later, indicative for when a thing occurs.
llilla'hu (O/G): (int.) That will do ("That's just enough" barely adequate, sufficient.)
lloann'mhrahel (O/G): (n.) The United Federation of Planets (However, the term translates most
accurately as "Them, from There" (as opposed to "Us, from Here"). The Klingons, once
encountered, were promptly named khell'oann-mhehorael ("More of them, from Somewhere Else".))
lloan'na (O/G): (n.) Fed (catchall title for a UFP member, translating exactly as a/the Fed)
lloannen'galae (O/G): (n.) Federation Fleet (Federation Battlegroup, Task Force; the word has
aggressive connotations that do not differentiate between warships and civilian vessels, but then
Rihannsu have seldom seen the need to regard ships other than ours as anything but potential
enemies.)
lloi: (v.) Kill
lloveu: (v) Tell, as a story
lluadh (O/G): (n.) A sneaky person (not always an insult when used in reference to Rihannsu people
or culture)
lvhiet: (n.) Art
~M~
maeyer: (v.) Transfer
maghi: (n.) Tunic (overgarment worn by both males and females, primarily as part of a uniform but
also as civilian wear. Tunics usually have large sleeves that reach anywhere from mid-forearm to
wrist, and go down to about mid-thigh.)
mehre: (v.) Call forth, Summon (not to call as in merely to speak to)
mhafv: (n.) Smell
mhia: (n.) Summer Season (equivalent to April-August)
mhir: (n.) Taste
mhirrav: (prep.) Outside
mienn: (v.) Force
miin: (n.) Selection/Choice
mnaeri: (adv.) must
mnahe (D/M): (n.) Hate, the emotion.
mneahj: (n.) Copper
mneahj'ye: (adj.) Copper-colored, Coppery
mnashe: (n.) Inspiration
mneani: (adj.) Red
mneihy: (adj.) Reddish-Brown
mnek'nra (O/G): (adj.) Good (Well, good, correct, satisfactory, inferior-superior mode)
mnekha (O/G): (adj.) Good (As above, superior-inferior mode. Literally, this means good, but
conduct dictates that one does not say 'good' to one's superiors.)
mnekiir: (v.) Like/Prefer
mnhaell'hu: (n.) Island (Recent Word, did not exist in Ancient High Vulcan)
mnhei: (v.) Rule
mnhei'sahe (O/G): (n.) The Ruling Passion (The concept, or concept complex, that rules most of
Rihannsu life in terms of Honor. Mnhei'sahe is primarily occupied with courtesy to the people around
one: this courtesy, depending on circumstances, may require killing a person to do him honor, or
severely disadvantaging oneself on his behalf. There are many ramifications too involved to go into,
but generally Mnhei'sahe is satisfied if all the parties to an agreement feel that their "face" or honor is
intact after a (social) or other transaction. NB: The concept has occasionally been mistranslated as
implying that a given action is done "for another person's good." This is incorrect; such a concept
literally does not exist in Rihannsu culture. One does things for one's own good -- or rather, the
good of one's honor, and if properly carried out, the actions in question will have benefitted the other
parties in the transaction as well.)
mnyiekher: (v.) Force upon
mnyiener: (v.) Give/Add
modherr: (adj.) Difficult, Hard
morllej (I/F): (v.) Explode
~N~
nai: (n.) Hand
nei'rrh (O/G): (n.) small birds, similar in size and flight characteristics to terran hummingbirds. (family
Trochilidae). With a poison-secreting spur on the upper mandible of the beak. Also an insult,
referring to a person annoying or dangerous out of all proportion to their size, status, or (usually)
worth.
neth ... nah'lai (O/G): either
or ...nerha: (n.) Equal to ten Ihnehra (More Common), the unit of time.
nharves (I/F): (n.) Nest
nnaen: (v.) Take/Remove
nnaekhan: (v.) Steal/Rob
nnefi: (n.) Tax, Tith, Toll
nneihe: (adj.) Brown (Yellowish)
nneikha: (n.) Empire
nnui: (adj.) Outer, Fringe (strange for ideas, foreign or far away for lands.)
nnulhlle: (adj.) Incompetent
nuhirrien (O/G): (n.) Charisma ("look-toward, the quality of charisma or mass attractiveness)
nunn: (n.) Foil, as in thin metal
nvaih: (v.) Jump
nveni: (v.) Walk
~O~
oali (J/G): (v.) Arrive
oal'lhih (O/G): (int.) Announce the presence/the arrival
ochei: (n.) Corridor
ochghifv: (adj.) Molecular
oelh: (adj.) Glad
oira (O/G): (n.) Battle control (aboard warbird-class and smaller ships, this is the same as the
bridge-deck (see hwaveyiir) as the flight control area, although rigged for combat; but on larger,
Klingon-built Akif and K't'inga class vessels the word applies to a seperate, heavily armored area
deep in the command prow.)
ojmhi: (adj.) Plain, Simple
okhala (I/F): (n.) The Element Fire
orhain: (v.) Decree (Exact translation)
ormiin: (v.) Decide/Choose
orrha: (n.) Director
ouwefvh: (n.) Plastic
ovhshau: (v.) Write (not in a creative sense)
ovrhei: (v.) Doubt
~P~
pathal: (n.) information, data
phenno: (n.) Belt
phiraifv: (adj.) military (sometimes shortened to phi')
pokot: (adj.) warm
~Q~
qafhumh: (v.) Mutilate
qiuu (O/G): (n.) all (of them, of you)
qiuu'n (D/G): (n.) All (of these)
~R~
ra'khoi (D/T): (n.) Revenge
ra'kholh (O/G): (n.) Avenger (A popular ship-name in the Rihannsu fleet)
ralaar (I/F): (n.) Sky
Ra'tleihfi (O/T): (n.) The capitol city on ch'Rihan
reghaih: (n.) Military
rehei (O/G): (n.) Private name, fourth name, the name a Rihannsu finds within oneself and then
shares only with those closest to him/her.
rehillh: (adj.) Ashen
rehvie: (n.) World, planet
rekkhai (O/G): (n.) Sir (inferior-superior high-phase mode)
rha (D/TM): (adv.) Indeed (lit., truth)
rhadam: (n.) Person
rhaetelh: (n.) Owner
rhai: (v.) Agree
rhai'hlan: (v.) Disagree
rhae (D/T): (adv.) Start, On
rhanne: (n.) I
rhe (D/TM) [1]: (adv.) Truly (Also used as 'Indeed.')
rhe [2]: (n.) Room
rhe've (D/TM): (int.) Is [it] truly
? [It] is truly... ...rhede: (n.) Half
rhienn: (n.) Blood
rhifv: (adv.) When
rhioy: (v.) Annihalate
rihanh (O/T): (n.) The Declared
Rihanha (O/T): (n.) One of the Delcared (A romulan)
Rihannsu (O/T): (adj.) relating to the Declared (Adjective: Romulan) or plural Rihanha (Romulans)
rii: (n.) Her/She
riov (O/T): (n.) Captain of Fleet Forces. "Commander" of a warship.
rokhelh: (n.) Defender
rreinnte: (n.) Tree
rrhaul: (v.) Seize
rrh-thanai (O/G): (n.) Hostage-Fostering (sometimes the making of peace by the exchanging of
children, each to be brought up by the other's tradition to further understanding and harmony.
Sometimes the exchange is simply to provide leverage and a surety of good behavior: "Don't do this,
or your son/daughter will die." Fosterings often start in one context and end up in another.)
rrhandh: (n.) Wood
rrhanh: (n.) Support
rrhuieh: (v.) Desire
~S~
S'harien (O/G): (n.) Pierceblood (The name in Old Vulcan, chosen by pre-sundering Vulcan's most
famous swordsmith as a reaction against the teachings of surak: The name was also given to his
swords)
saarh: (n.) Dish, A specific food
sa': (prep.) With
saeihr: (n.) Star
saevha: (n.) Crewperson
sagomh: (n.) Award
sahe (D/M): (n.) 1. Passion, something to which one commits oneself or has passionate feelings for.
2. The emotion of passion for a thing.
saith: (n.) Peace
saiy: (adj.) Green
saj: (adj.) Small
savhe: (n.) Exit
shaeni: (adj.) Purple
sheg: (n.) Hair
shianev: (n.) Spear
shiefvu: (v.) Listen
sienae: (n.) Talon
sienov: (n.) Sword
sienovan: (n.) Swordsman (lit., swordsperson, not gender-specific)
sihndari (I/F): (n.) Swarm
siure (D/T): (n.) Equal to ten Nerha (50.5 terran seconds), the unit of time.
siuren (O/G): (n.) Minutes (Or at least, the Rihannsu equivalent, actually equal to 50.5 secs.)
soqey: (n.) Bag
sorifvh: (v.) Surrender
ssaedhe: (adj.) Gallant, Brave
ssalli: (n.) Vegetable, any seedless edible plant
ssaollh: (n.) Spoon or Ladel (roughly analogous to either utensil).
sseikae (O/G): (n.) A scavenger, analogous to the Terran hyena Crocuta Crocuta and employed as
an insult in the same way)
ssejfe: (n.) Sash, a garment worn over the shoulder that either drapes around to the other side of the
body in a loop, or is tucked under the belt.
ssifefva: (n.) Antidote (used against people poisons)
ssifegho: (n.) Antivenin (used against poison from animals)
ssuaj-ha (O/G): (v.) understood (Inferior-Superior mode)
ssuej-d'ifv (O/G): (int.) Do you understand (Superior-Inferior mode)
Ihir: (v.) Do
sthea'hwill (O/G): (int.) I request (an action) be done at once (superior-inferior, courteous mode.)
stheirhn: (v.) Request
suvchagh: (n.) Stock, monetary or other investment in a business or venture. Used both
professionally and colloquially.
~T~
T'liss (O/F): (n.) A bird of prey/Warbird-class starship
tafv: (adj.) Trustworthy, reliable. Also a proper name: One who is trustworthy.
ta hrenn (O/G): (int.) Look there! (Look at this!)
takhse: (n.) Chain; Standard unit of currency; (colloq.) An unfair or overly restrictive arrangement or
contract.
ta'khoi (O/G): (int.) Screen off (Usage for voice-activated equipment and (if used to another person)
very explicit superiority)
ta'rhae (O/G): (int.) Screen on (See above.)
takar (O/F): (n.) Comet
tehann: (n.) Desert
teillh: (n.) mercy
temarr (I/F): (n.) night
th'anaih (J/G): (n.) Hostage
th'ann, th'ann-a (O/G): (n.) "a/the prisoner."
th-ann'rhe (J/G): (n.) Brig
theah: (n.) Now (Not imperative)
thiolha: (n.) Coordinator
thollghun: (adj.) polygonal
thomhtaa: (v.) Spit; Slander or Insult (colloq.)
thoyefvh: (n.) Plasma (as in ionized gas)
thraefvai: (v.) Surround
thrai, thraiin (O/G): (n.) Predator, analogous to the Terran wolverine Gulo luscus; and possessed of
similar legendary traits for persistance, vengeful stubborness, and ferocity.
tivh: (n.) This
tlaru: (n.) Intellegence, as in a division of military or government in charge of espionage and internal
security.
tlhei (O/G): (n.) My word (Occasionally as in "My (given) word" but more usually "My
command/Order/bidding")
tuaq: (n.) Fall/Winter season
tui: (adj.) fat (used of both people and objects)
~U~
u': (conj.) And
uan: (n.) pain, angst
uashorr: (n.) screen, monitor, or touch-keyed instrument panel
uerrhro: (n.) bitter, as in the emotion
ugh: (n.) joke, jest
ullbi: (adj.) Round, bulbous
ullho: (adj.) dark
umhi: (adj.) Sharp
urhik: (n.) fall/winter season of the year in temperate climates
urhillh: (n.) glass (the material)
urri (J/G): (v.) go
urrobafv: (n.) swamp, marsh, wetlands.
urru (O/G): (int.) go to (A non-mode imperative, which if circumstances permit can be used from
low to high as well as the more usual vice-versa.)
ussibh: (n.) shirt, usually a long-sleeved undergarment as Rihanha prefer robes, tunics, and dresses
as over-clothing.
ustalh (I/F): (n.) lifter
uykirrh: (n.) Injustice, an action not technically a crime by law, but is still viewed as wrong by the
recipient of the action.
~V~
vaedn (D/G): (v.) attend (as in to listed to; heed)
vaed'rae (O/G): (int.) Attend me (Hear me/Attend me, more imperative than "Listen", and more
formal)
vah-udt (O/G): (int.) "What rank?" (Who are you (to be asking/doing this)?)
vaeha: (adv.) Who
vajerha: (n.) lieutenant, as in right-hand-man as opposed to a rank.
ve: (conj.) if (see ja)
veherr (D/T): (n.) Apology, written or otherwise.
veigh: (n.) Food
veir: (n.) Why
vhieelh: (n.) Corona
vhuin: (v.) Have
vikha: (adv.) Where
vnai: (v.) Release
vriafwe: (n.) Science (As in the discipline of science itself)
vriha (O/G): (n.) highest/most superior
waith: (n.) field, as in farmland, or any large area of open land intended for use by sentients. Does
not apply to undisturbed habitats (see aihai)
~Y~
yhea: (adj.) Swift
yhfev: (v.) Run
yhfillain (D/G): (n.) Transportation
yhfi-ss'ue (O/G): (n.) Travel tubes (The public transport system of five rail-mounted cars, powered
by electromagnetic linear morots, carrying 20 persons in an enclosed weatherproof tubes.)
yhfir'afwe: (n.) Physics (Science of Motion)
yikh: (adj.) alien
yita: (n.) crime
---------------------------------
Source Index for listed words:
Status: Original Source:
Derived - D The Romulan Way (Glossary) - G
Original - O The Romulan Way (Text) - T
Modified - I My Enemy, My Ally - M
Conjectural - J FASA - F
Any Star Trek motion picture or
television series - S
Other - X
**Entries with no Source indicated are invented,
or very loosely derived
To E-Mail me click here Mandukar
And remember, this page is copyrighted. If you want to take anything from it you will have to ask me .