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)
 * donà (lore keeper; used to address a sea turtle)
 * efa (lore keeper of the Walea)
 * efani (the Tear of Ani, a very rare blue and white spiral shell gifted by Ani, goddess of the sea
 * 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.)
 * faravia (literally 'sail mending', a metaphor for adjusting back into the community after a period away)
 * fenà (lore keeper of the Nevans)
 * hani (a relative, blood kin)
 * hupà (lore keeper of the Gēnang)
 * 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)
 * kona'a (a slit-log drum)
 * kurakura (rough water caused by intersecting waves; where deepwater swells or two currents meet)
 * lulai (the phosphorescence seen in the ocean at night, translates to 'the light in the wake of a canoe')
 * mafa (the person who guides the singing of the Lays)
 * 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)
 * posà (Walea lore keeper specifically involved in Vangavayan genealogy)
 * posao (trader of shells and efela)
 * remāraraka (south of east, the direction from which the long-tailed cuckoos come))
 * rukà (lore keeper of the Nga specializing in navigation)
 * 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)
 * vanà (lore keeper of the Nga specializing in the legends and stories of the sky)
 * velioi (foreigners)
 * warokainë (a purple and green shell)
 * wontok (someone who speaks the same language, comes from the same people)
 * zamà (lore keeper of the Ela)
 * ziva'a (handsbreath, used for measuring distances between stars while navigating)

Proper Names

 * Au'aua (the constellation of the Great Whale. Her eye is the brightest star in the northern sky)
 * Aya'e'alu'ova (The Song of the Breaking of the Waves)
 * Ela (Those Who Went the Furthest, the shamans, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Eta (The Wind of the Morning Sun)
 * Furai'fa (the zenith star of Loaloa))
 * He'eanka (Elonoa'a's parahë. Also 'the Wandering Star', a comet named for Elonoa'a's parahë)
 * Hina'ui (The Wind of the Evening Star)
 * Ke’e Lulai’aviyë/Ke’e Lulai (Those Who Live Under the Wake, an ancient name for the Wide Seas Islanders)
 * Kindraa (Those Who Know the Wind, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Le'aia (the northern pole star))
 * Lulai’aviyë (The Wake (of the ancestor's ships), the River of Stars, Zunidh's Milky Way)
 * Mdang (Those Who Hold the Fire, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Nevan (Those Who Tie the Sails, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Nga (Those Who Name the Stars, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Nua-Nui (the constellation of the Great Bird, or Albatross. His beak points to the southern pole of Zunidh)
 * Tisaluikaye (The Island that Swallowed the Sea, a constellation of an atoll)
 * Tui-tanata (Cliopher Mdang's handbuilt vaha, name translates to "The Song of the Home Fire")
 * Moa’alani (Sky Ocean, the Divine Lands)
 * Moakiliye (constellation named meaning the Island the Sea Spat Back)
 * Poyë (Those Who Carry the Seeds,, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Sama (The Wind That Rises At Dawn)
 * Urumë (The Sea-Witch)
 * Varga (Those Who Touch the Water, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've)
 * Walea (Those Who Hold the Efela, one of the twelve original families of the Vangavaye've.Also keepers of genealogy.)

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?")
 * "Sama e'lolōna." ("The Wind That Rises At Dawn fills my sails")
 * "Lulai’aviyë dinai'o." ("The Wake of the Ancestors' Ships have I seen.")
 * "Ke'ea moa'alani anonōna." ("The star-paths of Sky Ocean are singing to me.")
 * "Ke'ea anonōna." ("The star-paths are singing to/for me.")
 * "Ealoa'a te huwēa, kinava'a te vawēa, enadoa'a o nai gēlavaye-ve" ("Tell me not the stars, tell me not the winds, for I am the one who found the last island")