Islander

Summary
Islander is the ancestral language spoken by the Wide Seas Islanders of Zunidh.

Words

 * ahalo (cloth, made from sea silk threads)
 * buru (a title for a particularly revered elder)
 * casao (knife, also a type of shell that can be used as a knife)
 * efela (necklace)
 * efela ko (a foundational efela for a lorekeeper)
 * efela koro (unfinished efela)
 * efelauni (mystical purveyors of efela)
 * efelēla (marriage efela)
 * efetana (necklace of fire coral)
 * efevoa (sundrop cowrie, or an efela made of them)
 * efanoa (traditional efela worn by pairs of fanoa, similar to efelēla)
 * fanoa (an ordinary white shell, a matched-but-different pair. Socially, a trading partner or a platonic life partner.)
 * hani (a relative, blood kin)
 * ivani (respectful term to call an elder)
 * kava (some kind of drink)
 * ke'e (zenith star, the star that marks the latitude of an island or close group of islands)
 * ke'ea (a road, a way guided by the stars and the Lays between one island and the next)
 * kilito (to spit back or reject something)
 * moa'a (the ocean)
 * motu (island / land)
 * nava (meeting place)
 * nevio (the "held" in "Those Who Hold the Efela" (and possibly other lorekeeper epithets) - a nuanced word, meaning held, kept, weighed, counted, strung...)
 * nefalo (a large clam whose pearls are used in efelēla)
 * noua (bird, white tern)
 * parahë (large double hulled ship which can hold thirty crew)
 * perioi (strangers/guests)
 * posao (trader of shells and efela)
 * ta (life)
 * tana (fire)
 * tanà (person who holds the Lays)
 * tana-tai (tanà for the Outer Ring)
 * tanaea (striking rock, hearth-fire)
 * tananē (fire for cooking and company)
 * tanapē (fire for cooking)
 * ti palm
 * tisalë (an atoll)
 * tovo (rock used in lighting a fire)
 * tui (tree and flower)
 * vaha (a canoe)
 * velioi (foreigners)
 * warokainë (a purple and green shell)
 * wontok (someone who speaks the same language, comes from the same people)
 * ziva'a (handsbreath, used for measuring distances between stars while navigating)

Proper Names

 * Ke’e Lulai’aviyë/Ke’e Lulai (Those Who Live Under the Wake, an ancient name for the Wide Seas Islanders)
 * Lulai’aviyë (The Wake (of the ancestor's ships), the River of Stars, Zunidh's Milky Way)
 * Tisaluikaye (The Island that Swallowed the Sea, a constellation of an atoll)
 * Moa’alani (Sky Ocean, the Divine Lands)

Phrases

 * “O Ani o Vou’a o Vangavaye-ve ea Eana Loa!” (The opening to the Lays of the Wide Seas: "We come in our ships to the gift of Ani and Vou’a, to the Vangavaye-ve.")
 * "Tē ke’e’vina-tē zēnava parahë’ala" (Traditional greeting after long absence, roughly ‘How splendid that the star-paths of our voyages meet here!’)
 * "Tō mo’ea-tō avivayë o rai’ivayë" (Traditional response to greeting, roughly ‘New islands and old islands are ours to discover now we are together again.’)
 * "Tanaea-te imalo! Moa’a-ki imalo! Kifa’ana imai?" (A traditional greeting when coming to a new island: "I bring a fire for your hearth! I bring news of the Wide Seas! Have you any problems for me?")