# Avelin — Core Lexicon 1.0

Read with GRAMMAR.md. This is a seed lexicon, not a dictionary large enough for every subject. Regular derivatives are not separate roots. Vowel quality, syllabification, and penultimate stress follow the grammar without exceptions. N = noun; A = adjective; V.i = intransitive; V.t = transitive; V.c = complement-taking. Accusative objects are marked -n. Optional arguments may remain unspecified under §5.2.

## People, body, and relationship

| Root | Class | Meaning / frame |
|---|---|---|
| nari | N | person, human being |
| ama | N | parent; no gender specified |
| imi | N | child; offspring or young person |
| elavi | N | friend |
| rima | N | heart, as organ; figuratively emotional center |
| manu | N | hand |
| tala | N | foot; distinct from clause-opening tala “although” |
| sena | N | year |
| vora | N | face |
| sina | N | eye |
| hela | N | ear |
| nomi | N | name |
| vema | N | community |
| yala | N | bond, relationship |

## Landscape, matter, and living things

| Root | Class | Meaning / frame |
|---|---|---|
| mira | N | flower |
| nava | N | water |
| luma | N | light |
| sola | N | sun |
| luna | N | moon |
| zira | N | star |
| wera | N | wind |
| arana | N | sky |
| dara | N | tree |
| fali | N | leaf |
| ava | N | bird |
| numa | N | fish |
| tera | N | earth, soil |
| kala | N | stone |
| mara | N | sea |
| nera | N | river |
| hara | N | mountain |
| vala | N | valley |
| fira | N | fire |
| sula | N | rain |

## Home, artifacts, space, and time

| Root | Class | Meaning / frame |
|---|---|---|
| sela | N | dwelling, home-building |
| kava | N | cup; cupful, size contextually standardized |
| bela | N | door |
| rali | N | path |
| panu | N | bread |
| mela | V.t | love; lover NOM, beloved ACC (not a food noun) |
| lirema | N | book, lexical root; not the regular event noun lirama |
| nali | N | language |
| nala | N | song, sung composition |
| dina | N | day |
| nora | N | night |
| hora | N | hour |
| vera | N | moment |
| ina | N.rel | interior |
| sura | N.rel | upper side/top |
| nela | N.rel | lower side/bottom |
| fera | N.rel | front |
| dora | N.rel | back/rear |
| veno | N.rel | interval, between-space |
| tema | N.rel | topic |
| ena | N | thing, entity; generic head |
| tuma | N | task, piece of work |
| sari | N | story |

## Qualities

| Root | Class | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| veli | A | beautiful |
| sava | A | calm, peaceful; also conventional greeting |
| mali | A | large |
| nini | A | small |
| novi | A | new |
| dari | A | old, long-existing; not inherently obsolete |
| seri | A | good, beneficial |
| zali | A | bad, harmful |
| feli | A | warm |
| neli | A | cold |
| yari | A | near |
| dori | A | far |
| yali | A | happy |
| mori | A | sad |
| hari | A | open |
| kori | A | closed |
| suli | A | true, factually correct |
| vari | A | possible; adjective, distinct from modal po |

## Actions and states

| Root | Class | Meaning / frame |
|---|---|---|
| sira | V.t | see: perceiver NOM, perceived ACC |
| hena | V.t | hear/listen to: listener NOM, sound/source ACC; attention is contextual |
| rema | V.t | remember: rememberer NOM, remembered entity ACC; use an event noun for an event |
| zena | V.t/c | know: knower NOM, entity ACC or ne-clause |
| vela | V.t/c | want: wanter NOM, entity ACC or ne-clause |
| dira | V.t/c | say/state: speaker NOM, content ACC or ne-clause, addressee DAT optional |
| meka | V.c | ask: questioner NOM, ne-interrogative-clause, addressee DAT optional |
| neri | V.i | speak: speaker NOM, addressee DAT, language INSTR, topic relational temava |
| lira | V.t | read: reader NOM, text ACC |
| lina | V.i | sing: singer NOM; intransitive, no direct song object |
| vana | V.i | go: traveler NOM, destination DAT, source ABL optional |
| vena | V.i | come: arriver NOM, destination DAT, source ABL optional; movement toward contextual deictic center |
| esa | V.cop | be: subject NOM, adjective/unmarked nominal/genitive/locative predicate |
| ila | V.i | exist: existing entity NOM, location LOC optional |
| dona | V.t | give: giver NOM, theme ACC, recipient DAT |
| sera | V.t | thank: thanker NOM, thanked person ACC |
| tina | V.i | apologize: apologizer NOM, addressee DAT optional |
| fera | V.t | make/produce: maker NOM, product ACC; homophonous with noun “front” |
| pala | V.t | eat: eater NOM, food ACC |
| nuva | V.t | drink: drinker NOM, drink ACC |
| soma | V.i | sleep: sleeper NOM |
| yera | V.i | live/be alive: living entity NOM, residence LOC optional |
| ravi | V.i | walk: walker NOM, destination DAT/source ABL optional |
| fena | V.t | find: finder NOM, found entity ACC; distinct from purpose-clause opener |
| nora | V.t | carry: carrier NOM, theme ACC, destination DAT optional; distinct from night noun |
| mila | V.t | touch: toucher NOM, touched entity ACC |

Homophones are intentional only where both entries are listed. Their syntactic positions usually disambiguate them; paraphrase if they do not. Avelin does not freely convert every noun to a verb.

## Time adverbs

`nua` now; `era` yesterday; `ora` tomorrow. Adverb formation from adjectives uses -si. All closed-class items, numerals, pronouns, and affixes are defined normatively in the grammar; this lexicon supplements rather than replaces those tables.

## Frequently useful derived words

| Word | Derivation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| nerira | neri-ra | speaker |
| nerima | neri-ma | speaking, speech activity |
| lirara | lira-ra | reader |
| lirama | lira-ma | reading activity |
| linama | lina-ma | singing |
| lumave | luma-ve | luminous, characterized by light |
| velilo | veli-lo | beauty |
| savalo | sava-lo | calmness |
| savasi | sava-si | calmly |
| velidu | veli-du | become beautiful |
| yalidu | yali-du | become happy |
| haridu | hari-du | open, become open (intransitive) |
| koridu | kori-du | close, become closed (intransitive) |
| mirani | mira-ni | little/dear flower |
| selaro | sela-ro | large dwelling |

`haridumu` causes something to become open: the causee is agentive under the ordinary causative rule, even when inanimate. Do not silently substitute accusative for convenience.

## Naming and extension

A new ordinary root should end in a vowel, obey (C)V(C), and receive a class and argument frame. Proper names may use permitted final codas. Derive predictable words before inventing new roots, but avoid excessively long chains. Check homophones before adopting a root; deliberate homophony must be documented. Technical and cultural meanings should be explicitly introduced, not assumed to be native traditions.