Verdurian spelling was reformed in 3728— a time when technology had advanced beyond our own, and the first permanent base on Iliažë had just been set up. Spellings in this document are pre-reform, and by that time no longer reflected the spoken language. A few words do reflect sound change; e.g. the abbreviation ša- for ‘electric’, from sya(metec).
The words here are the ordinary term. Often people initially used more verbose terms and these have simplified, as we turned ‘taximeter cabriolet’ into ‘cab’. So e.g. nasitec ‘truck’ became nas; bežecî mižigoi ‘moving pictures’ became bežecî, etc.
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| airplane | letniru [‘flying machine’] | 3588 Érenat
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| airport | letcer [‘flying port’]
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| automobile | nisen [Xurnese (tir)niswen ‘wagon’] | 3650 Xurno
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| bicycle | linto [Flaidish linnitno ‘two-wheel’] | 3543 Flora
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| bullet train | naraž [Tžuro ‘eagle’] | 3640 DU
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| bus | nažžen [‘truck (for) people’]
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| driver's license | ribret duisomei [‘license of driver’]
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| gas station | karnáe [‘oil place’]
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| gasoline | niskare [nisen-kare 'car oil’]
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| helicopter | řavniru [Dhekhnami khyav 'grasshopper’ + ‘machine’] | 3620 Dhekhnam
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| line (train, subway) | ban [‘way’]
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| motor | niru [‘machine’]
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| oil | kare [cüe Kare ‘petroleum’] | Caďinorian times
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| otherworld | telcë [‘elsewhere’] | 3570 Curym
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| otherworld travel | celtelcë [‘elsewhere’] | 3800s
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| railway | kolberda [‘iron path’] | 3485 Kebri
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| steam engine | duhniru [‘steam-machine’] | 3466 Verd/Kebri
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| steamship | duhnavira [‘steam-ship’] | 3476 Verduria
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| steering wheel | orivoš [‘tiller’]
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| subway | hippoče [‘underground (train)’] | 3540 Verduria
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| taxi | desidul [‘ordered (car)’]
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| tire | šircoš [‘around thing’]
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| traffic | duisomora [‘driverage’]
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| train | ezede [Kebreni ‘carriage’ + collective] | 3485 Kebri
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| train station | ezednáe [‘train place’]
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| truck | nas [nasitec ‘carrier’]
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| trunk | sista [‘box, trunk’]
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| astronaut | irlädec [‘above-goer’] | 3660 Bé
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| black hole | urzetiel [‘strange point’]
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| cluster (of stars) | azava [Keb. collective of ‘star’]
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| constellation | curulëra [collective of ‘star’]
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| galaxy | sayrina [Xurnese xayurina ‘sky river’] | 3350 Xurno
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| ICBM | celhunsirise letkřumbil [‘intercontinental missile’] | 3690 Golds
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| interplanetary | celdunalál [‘between planet(s)’] | 3750
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| interstellar | celcurulë [‘between star(s)’] | 3900
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| missile | letkřumbil [‘flying bomb’]
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| moon | nahis [reborrowing from Caď.]
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| moon landing | surnahisán [cf. surpočen ‘land (on ground)’] | 3679 Kebri
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| nebula | obela [‘cloud’]
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| nova | lebcurulë [‘new star’] | 3220 Érenat
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| orbit | situriát
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| rocket | křuntuyo [‘bomb-pipe’] | 3600 Xurno
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| satellite | situriec [‘orbiter’] | 3650 Bé
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| space | irsyel [‘above sky’]
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| spaceport | ircer [‘above port’]
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| space shuttle | düzede [Keb. dyezede ‘space railway’] | 3680 DU
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| space station | düpol [Keb. dypol ‘sky city’, calque on DU term] |
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| base (numerical) | (hicete) řizo [‘(numerical) root’]
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| binary | dvařizo [‘two-base’]
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| complex number | daždimo [‘grid-amount’]
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| decimal | decřizo [‘ten-base’]
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| floating point | lëndimo [‘line-amount’]
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| hexadecimal | tësane [‘16-ish’]
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| integer | samfäsul [‘without remainder’]
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| octal | žořizo [‘eight-base’]
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| point | tiel [Caď.]
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| sixteen | tësán [‘all-one’]
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| algorithm | steria [‘process’]
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| bit | ařo [ar-řo ‘yes-no’]
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| bug | accul [‘scolding’]
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| byte | žocařo [‘eight-bit’]
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| constant | teřeme
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| cd-rom | dör laun [‘external circle’]
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| chip | ďëska [‘tile’]
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| compile | celmetan [‘translate’]
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| computer | römniru [‘calculate-machine’] | 3650 Verduria
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| computer language | nirutá [‘machine-ism’]
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| CPU | mašrë (ďëska) [‘master chip’]
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| data | steräm [‘to be processed’]
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| database | sterämora [collective of ‘data’]
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| documentation | kielivro [‘how-book’]
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| debug | imželen [‘calm’; cf. accul]
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| floppy disk | mole laun [‘soft circle’]
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| hard drive | dur laun [‘hard circle’]
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| modem | celniru [‘between-machine(s)’]
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| keyboard | teclora [collective of tecla ‘key’]
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| mouse | kazoš [‘point-thing’]
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| monitor | ontoš [‘show-thing’]
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| neural net | merokotá [‘brainism’]
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| printer | impuyoš [‘press’]
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| program | (v) befelan; (n) befelora [‘command’]
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| programmer | befelec
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| programming | befelát
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| string | nibul, nibsteräm [‘any-data’]
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| variable | ďeltec [‘changer’]
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| video game | šašendu [‘electric game’]
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| virtual reality | šalëtyora [‘electric glasses’]
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| artificial intelligence | nirulesüas [‘machine-sentient’]
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| blog | šařan [šařandën ‘electric diary’]
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| channel | pratnáe [‘chat-place’]
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| chat | praten
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| e-mail | šapisá [‘electric letter’]
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| forum | (letuë) vouë [‘(wall) of messages’]
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| Internet | hipgečë [‘under-network’] | 3690 Verduria
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| flame | ogudir [‘roast’]
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| lurker | samsfahe [‘mute’]
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| newbie | lebako [slang for 'newcomer’]
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| network | gečë [‘web/net’]
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| PDF | retden [‘far document’]
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| post | voyir [‘send’]
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| posting | voy [‘message’]
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| troll | múrtany
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| Web | šanayora [collective of šanáe]
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| web page | šanáe [‘electric place’]
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| accelerator | fesnap [Festnap, Flaidish city where first one was built] | 3610 Flora
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| atom | parvasce [Caď. parvasces ‘smallest’]
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| c (lightspeed) | (hicet i) bidbo [‘Bidbo’s number’] | 3317 Flora
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| charm | nilai [Nílàe, its discoverer] | 3655 Bé
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| down quark | ctanec nežio [‘negative quark’]
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| electric | syametec, šame, ša- [‘bring-touching’]
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| electromagnetism | šamurca [‘electric-magnet’]
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| electron | čámio [Flaidish chamio ‘electric’ + dim.] | 3580 Flora
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| fission | cäciát [‘breaking’] | 3650 Xurno
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| force | pegeo [‘throwing’]
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| fusion | cometát [‘joining’] | 3670 DU
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| G (gravity constant) | (hicet i) nošcerey [‘Nošcerey’s number’] | 3366 Érenat
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| gravity | pegeo tombei [‘force of falling’]
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| h (Planck’s constant) | (hicet i) kuaďiu [‘Kwadhiw’s number’] | 3620 Dhekhnam
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| molecule | bidracon [Cuêzi 'the indivisible', ancient philosophical term]
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| negative (charge) | ctanec [Caď. ‘coming’] | 3442 Ismahi
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| neutron | nadízio [Keb. ‘mute, neutral’ + ‘particle’] | 3610 Kebri
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| nucleus | nevnu [Keb. ‘core’]
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| nuclear energy | dunea nevnui [‘nucleus energy’]
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| particle | tyelio; (in combinations) -io [‘point’ + Flaidish dim.]
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| photon | séltio [‘light-particle’]
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| positive (charge) | laudec [Caď. ‘going’] | 3442 Ismahi
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| proton | névnio [‘nucleus-particle’] | 3600 Dhekhnam
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| quantum | dedim [Lé dɛdin ‘not-between = discrete’] | 3620 Bé
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| quantum mechanics | dedimviso [‘quantumology’]
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| quark | nežio [Šureni ‘one third’] | 3640 DU
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| radioactivity | zaivigo [Keb. zaivgu ‘glow’] | 3570 Kebri
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| relativity | oratël [Keb. orattiel ‘all points’] | 3590 Śaidahami
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| speed of light | ruk selte [‘velocity of light’] | 3317 Flora
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| spin | launivát [‘rotation’]
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| strangeness | ažantu [Ajantu, its discoverer] | 3650 DU
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| strong force | pegeo nevnui [‘nuclear force’]
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| superposition | ženčin [Lé jéŋčìŋ ‘both states’]
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| up quark | laudec nežio [‘positive quark’]
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| uranium | ořsešue [‘dense gold’] | 3465 elcari
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| wave | mena
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| weak force | pegeo zaivigei [‘radioactive force’]
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| air conditioner | imanižec [‘cooler’] | 3580 DU
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| animated cartoon | bežecî behdelî [‘moving cartoons’] | 3585 Ismahi
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| atomic bomb | křumbil ořsešuei [‘uranium bomb’] | 3650 Xurno
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| biofuel | tsesikare [‘sugarcane oil’] | 3550 Bé
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| camera | mižigoš, miží [‘photo thing’] | 3510 Kebri
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| CD | laun [‘circle’]
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| cinema | bežecnáe [‘movie place’] | 3580 Érenat
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| dishwasher | činlavec [‘dish-washer’] | 3610 elcari
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| electromagic | šancädau [Keb. śamakaadau] | 3590 Kebri
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| elevator | uletora zetbežë [‘moving stairway’]
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| film (for camera) | bres [bres and mižigoin 'band for pictures’]
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| fusion bomb | křumbil cometátei [‘fusion bomb’] | 3670 DU
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| handgun | bepušcul [dim. of ‘rifle’]
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| hydroelectricity | mešankeďesa [‘water-electric production’] | 3600 DU
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| light bulb | glazula [‘little lamp’] | 3565 Verduria
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| machine gun | onfassë [‘repeater’] | 3587 Verd
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| movie | bežecî [bežecî mižigoi 'moving photos’] | 3580 Érenat
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| nuclear power | dunea cäciátei [‘fission energy’] | 3580 Flora
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| photograph | mižigo [Keb. miźirgu ‘silver thing’] | 3510 Kebri
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| plastic | imiru [after its discoverer] | 3600 Verduria
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| radio | šada [Keb. śadageira ‘far sound’] | 3590 Kebri
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| radio station | šadatiel [‘radio point (on dial)’]
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| record, phonograph | sücno [Keb. syḣknu ‘potter’s wheel’] | 3575 Kebri
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| record player | sücnoš | 3575 Kebri
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| refrigerator | froniru [calque on Flaidish ʔedgepp ‘cold machine’] | 3560 Flora
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| rifle | bepušec [‘Bé gun’] | 3492 Verduria/Kebri
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| stereo | alaďé [niru alaďee ‘music machine’]
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| sunglasses | akseltë [akseltë lëtyora ‘against-light glasses’]
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| tape | bresul [bresul and alaďean ‘bandlet for music’]
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| tape recorder | bresulniru [‘tape machine’]
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| telegraph | vuafil [‘voice-wire’] | 3520 Érenat
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| telephone | secu [Secku, its inventor] | 3556 Flora
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| television | šacayna [Keb. śadakaina ‘far sight’] | 3600 Kebri
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| typewriter | yadris [Yadderys Tolkio, its inventor] | 3547 Flora
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| videotape | bresul (and bežecin) [‘tape (for movies)’]
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| washing machine | uverälávec [‘clothes-washer’] | 3580 Flora
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| automatic teller | kunniru [‘money machine’]
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| babysitter | cumpavom [‘with kid person’]
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| banknote | denkuna [‘paper money’]
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| bikini | piďášë [‘tiny (swimsuit)’]
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| bra | taspres [‘cup band’]
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| comic strip | bemáš [‘cartoon’]
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| credit card | plačem [‘pay-card’]
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| economy | nažrömát [‘national accounting’]
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| income tax | decë ak lagun [‘tax on income’]
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| inflation | lešelial [‘price-rise’]
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| lifestyle | alia [‘way of getting by’]
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| lipstick | leffäbrau [‘lip makeup’]
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| psychiatry | yesača [Šureni iyesača ’rectification’]
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| secretary (office) | vereon [after the messenger of Enäron]
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| speed limit | aletasces (sfutátei) [‘maximum of speed’]
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| standard of living | nivo žüngui [‘level of expenditures’]
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| suburb | ažežes [‘neighborhood away (from the city)’]
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| swimsuit | nuotun [‘(outfit) for swimming’]
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| unemployed | samřeze [‘without work’]
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| unemployment | samřezát
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| welfare | denažë [colapreca denažë 'national assistance’]
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| capitalist | ziëcilo [‘property-ist’]
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| classist | ränorilo [‘class-ist’]
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| colonialist | irestilo [‘dominate-ist’]
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| colony | lebnáe [‘new place’]
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| communist | bëtsu [Xurnese biac(aup)su ‘abased-ist’]
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| conservative | bomřanec [‘keeping old’]
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| democratic | žengueste [‘people-power’]
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| environmentalist | bečindilo [after the Arániceri god of the Earth]
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| fascist | salsu [Xurnese ‘martial.vigor-ist’]
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| labor movement | řežene oligu [‘worker faction’]
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| monarchist | dalugueste [‘king-power’]
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| plutocratic | kungueste [‘money-power’]
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| prejudice | ařolotë [‘against-feeling’]
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| privilege | irpouže [‘location above’]
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| problematic | deželec [‘disquieting’]
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| progressive | imräfë [‘to justice’]
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| proletariat | řeženát [from ‘worker’]
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| sexist | serilo [‘male-ist’]
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| socialist | ženilo [‘people-ist’]
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| strike (labor) | cummevan [‘act with’]
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| theocratic | cliďugueste [‘priest-power’]
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| union | neron [‘guild’]
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| addict | ciloriul
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| addiction | cilorionarda [‘Syetnor-illness’]
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| allergic | ctodicel
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| allergy | ctodiceio [neo-Caď, after Ver. žoziseo ‘irritation’]
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| antibiotic | akanadonta [‘against bacterium’]
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| bacterium | anadonta [‘one cell’]
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| cell | donta [‘house block’]
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| chromosome | dontafil [‘cell-thread’] | 36303570s
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| clone | nennešél [‘same genes’]
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| DNA | suco nešélië [‘fluid of genes’] | 3630 Šočya
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| drug dealer | malošom [‘opium man’]
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| drugs (formal) | leoros [neo-Caď.; cf. ‘intoxication’]
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| drugs (slang) | mafoš [from ‘opium’]
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| gene | nešél [earlier nesiel, from ‘genetic’] | 3542 Cerei
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| gene replacement | lebnešél [‘new genes’]
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| genetic | nesetadec [‘birth-featured’]
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| intoxication | leorulát [Caď leorul ‘drunk’]
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| nucleus (of cell) | pol [Keb. ‘capital, metropolis’]
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| nutrient | nurictoš [neo-Caď., from ‘food’]
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| vaccine | akhipelir [‘against virus’] | 3572 Kebri
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| virus | hipelir [‘sub-life’] | 3580 Dhekhnam
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As part of the Almea+400 project, this document lists the words used in Modern Verdurian for new technology and social developments. As the project continues, more words will be added; they will also be found in the lexicon. Dates of future inventions are subject to change.