Lapine Language - Selected Vocabulary

Selected Vocabulary

• Crixa: The center of Efrafa, at the crossing of two paths.
• elil: Enemies of rabbits, including fox, stoat, weasel, cat, owl, man, etc.
• embleer: Stinking, the word for the smell of a fox.
• flay: Food, specifically grass or other greens.
• flayrah: Unusually good food, such as lettuce, carrots, etc.
• Frith: The Sun, viewed by the rabbits as God.
• Frithrah: "Lord Sun", used as an exclamation. Analogous to "My God!"
• fu-Inlé: After moonrise.
• hain: A song.
• hlao: A depression in the ground formed by a daisy or a thistle, specifically one that can hold moisture. Also used as a rabbit's name.
• hlessi: A rabbit who lives aboveground or otherwise out of a warren; a wandering rabbit. Plural hlessil.
• homba: A fox. Plural hombil.
• hrair: Many, uncountable, any number above four. It also means thousand, a big, uncountable number.
• hraka: Droppings, excreta. Used as a curse.
• hrududu: Any type of motor vehicle, such as a tractor, car or train. Plural hrududil
• Inlé: The moon, moonrise. Also means fear, darkness or death (as in the Black Rabbit of Inlé)
• lendri: A badger.
• li: Head.
• marli: A doe,a mother.
• m'saion: "We meet them"
• narn: Nice, tasty.
• ni-Frith: Noon.
• nildro: A blackbird.
• Owsla: A group of strong rabbits second year or older surrounding the chief rabbit.
• pfeffa: A cat.
• -rah: A suffix denoting meaning prince, lord or Chief Rabbit (as in Threarah, Hazel-rah)
• -roo: A diminutive suffix meaning "little" (as in Hlao-roo or Hrairoo).
• silf: Outside.
• silflay: To eat above ground; to graze.
• tharn: A state of paralyzed fear or confusion. Can also be used to mean "looking foolish", "forlorn", "heartbroken".
• thlay: Fur.
• threar: A Rowan or Mountain Ash tree.
• u: The.
• U hrair: "The Thousand". The term used by rabbits which refers to all their collective enemies.
• vair: To excrete, to pass droppings.
• yona: A hedgehog. Plural yonil.
• zorn: Destroyed, murdered. A catastrophe.