Brefic/Dictionary

Brefic Main Page

=A=
 * abl - ability to undergo (synonym - mocan)
 * acr - sour
 * acwa - water
 * acwapon - to water something
 * ad - to, destination
 * Africa - Africa
 * aid - help
 * air - air
 * ald - old, age
 * America - America (the continents)
 * amic - friend
 * amicneg - enemy
 * amo - love
 * angl - angle, corner
 * Antarctica - Antarctica
 * anum - year
 * aper - open
 * apl - apple
 * arain - spider
 * arbor - tree
 * arborland - forest
 * arborstof - wood
 * arc - arch, bow
 * art - art
 * Asja - Asia
 * aud - to hear, hearing
 * aur - ear
 * auto - car
 * Australja - Australia
 * ax - generic object (in compounds with action words, this means "something to be ")

=B=
 * bac - rod, stick
 * barn - child
 * bas - low
 * bebe - baby
 * bef - to drink, act of drinking
 * befax - drink, beverage
 * bel - beauty, beautiful
 * best - animal
 * bio - life, to live, alive
 * biosort - species
 * bisnis - business (i.e. trade and work)
 * bisnisgrup - company
 * blanc - white
 * blu - blue
 * boc - mouth
 * bon - good
 * bord - edge
 * bordep - along
 * botel - bottle, jar, can, jug (any container for liquids small enough to be held in the hand)
 * brac - arm
 * braun - brown
 * bric - brick
 * brox - brush
 * broxus - to brush, to use a brush
 * brul - to burn
 * brulax - fuel
 * buc - book

=C=
 * cabal - horse
 * cad - to fall
 * cadlas - to drop
 * cal - hot, heat
 * caid - to cut
 * caidusax - blade, cutting tool (knife, scissors, etc.)
 * can - can, ability
 * cap - head
 * carn - meat
 * cat - cat
 * caud - tail
 * caus - cause, to cause, because of (postposition)
 * causneg - to prevent, prevention
 * cax - to hide
 * ced - to yield
 * celc - something/someone
 * cem - substance, chemical
 * cent - hundred
 * cest - box
 * claid - clothes, clothing item
 * claus - to close, closed
 * cler - clear
 * co - with, to accompany, together
 * color - color
 * contr - against, despite, contrary, opposition
 * cop - to buy, buying
 * cord - heart
 * corn - horn
 * cornarc - crescent
 * corp - body
 * cos - thing
 * cosmos - universe
 * cosmoslox - cosmology
 * cosmostru - black hole
 * cras - next
 * crasdei - tomorrow
 * cred - to believe, belief
 * cron - time, at(time) (postposition), when
 * cup - to strike, hit, blow
 * cur - to run
 * curb - curve
 * curt - short
 * cwadrat - square
 * cwal - quality, property
 * cwaldir - to describe, description
 * cwan - dog
 * cwant - amount, quantity
 * cwar - four
 * cwe - what, which
 * cwecaus - why (what cause)
 * cwecron - when
 * cwehaf - whose
 * cwehom - who
 * cweloc - where
 * cwepor - why (what purpose)
 * cwewei - how
 * cwest - to ask, question
 * cwin - five
 * cwo - quote, to say "something in quotation marks." (i.e. direct speech)

=D=
 * das - that
 * dase - those
 * daun - down (direction)
 * de - of, which is, who, that (particle)
 * dec - ten
 * dei - day
 * deifin - evening
 * deimid - noon
 * deistart - morning
 * dent - tooth
 * dentrot - gear
 * derm - skin
 * deus - god
 * deuscred - religion
 * des - some, more than one
 * dic - thick
 * did - "did," past-tense modal verb, past event
 * didcron - "the past"
 * dir - to say
 * dis - this
 * dise - these
 * dixit - finger
 * don - to give
 * donax - gift
 * dorm - sleep
 * dormax - bed
 * dors - back (of body)
 * du - two
 * dub - doubt
 * duc - to lead, drive
 * dulx - sweet
 * dur - to last, duration, during
 * dwer - door

=E=
 * eco - surroundings, environment
 * ecsist - to exist
 * ed - to eat, eating
 * edax - food
 * eddeb - hunger, hungry, must eat
 * ei - and
 * electro - electricity
 * elefant - elephant
 * engo - anger, angry, to be angry
 * ep - on, upon, surface
 * es - is, to be
 * est - east
 * ete - smaller and somewhat different version
 * Europa - Europe
 * ex - out, out of
 * exwad - to exit
 * exdwer - exit (door)

=F=
 * falx - false
 * falxcredir - to deceive
 * faxil - easy, simple
 * faxilwer - obvious
 * felis - happy, happiness
 * felisfis - smile
 * fem - woman (synonym: xihom)
 * fer - iron
 * fic - to make
 * fichaus - factory
 * fin - to end, end
 * fis - face
 * fisic - force (physics)
 * fisiclox - physics
 * fjer - proud, pride
 * fla - to blow
 * flag - flag
 * flam - fire, on fire, to burn (with visible flames)
 * flamir - to ignite
 * flex - to bend
 * flig - to fly, flight
 * fligmaxin - aircraft
 * flor - flower
 * flux - to flow, liquid
 * fo - (particle) and of
 * fogl - bird
 * foil - leaf
 * form - shape
 * formmesur - geometry
 * fort - strong
 * frag - to break
 * frix - cold
 * fro - from, to originate from, origin
 * frut - fruit
 * fund - to pour
 * fung - mushroom, fungus
 * fusc - dark, shadow

=G=
 * gain - to win, gain, earn
 * gaist - ghost, spirit
 * gaistfisic - magic (ghost-force)
 * gamb - leg
 * garden - garden
 * gas - gas
 * geld - money
 * geldhaus - bank
 * geldist - banker
 * geldmaxin - ATM
 * genu - knee
 * glais - ice
 * glaisir - to freeze
 * glub - deep, depth
 * go - nominative postposition (optional) - "action" or "to do"
 * gold - gold
 * graf - to draw
 * grand - big
 * gras - fat
 * grat - to thank, gratitude, "thank you"
 * grau - heavy, weight, to weigh
 * graufisic - gravity
 * grei - gray
 * gren - grain
 * gres - step
 * grud - pile, heap
 * grup - group
 * gust - taste
 * gut - a drop
 * gwer - war (synonym: sillutone)

=H=
 * habit - to dwell, inhabit
 * habithaus - home
 * haf - to have
 * halt - to stop
 * har - hair
 * hard - hard
 * hast - haste, hurry
 * haus - house, building
 * hauswitr - window
 * hedon - pleasure
 * hei - have (a marker for past events that are still directly relevant in the present)
 * herb - grass
 * hi - male
 * hol - whole
 * hom - person, human being
 * hor - hour
 * humil - humble

=I=
 * im - fraction, reciprocal
 * in - in (postposition), inside, interior
 * insect - insect
 * insted - instead, substitute
 * instedir - to replace
 * inter - between, among
 * ir - to change to, resulting state after a change
 * irg - any
 * iso - equal, even
 * isotel - parallel
 * ist - professional

=J=
 * ja - to affirm, agree, yes
 * jar - container
 * jard - cube (of number)
 * je - each
 * jec - to throw, throwing
 * jelo - yellow
 * jem - position in an ordered sequence, ordinal suffix
 * jer - previous
 * jerdei - yesterday
 * jo - I, me, my
 * joc - game, to play
 * jon - square (of number)
 * jug - yoke, bond, link
 * jun - young, youth
 * jur - to judge
 * just - just, fair, justice

=L=
 * labor - work
 * land - land
 * landlox - geology
 * landone - continent
 * larg - wide, broad, width
 * las - allow, let
 * lat - side, beside
 * laus - louse
 * lei - law, rule
 * lef - to lift, raise
 * left - left (direction)
 * letr - letter
 * lex - to read
 * leic - like (postposition), to resemble, similar, similarity
 * leng - tongue
 * lent - slow
 * leon - lion
 * libr - free, freedom
 * licwid - liquid
 * licwidir - to melt or condense
 * lin - line
 * lingwa - language, to speak
 * list - list
 * loc - place, location, at
 * long - long, length
 * longxanx - evolve, evolution
 * lox - to study, science, -ology (Note: compounds formed from -lox all refer to legitimate sciences - thus, sterlox refers to astronomy, not astrology, and numerlox refers to mathematics, not numerology.)
 * lun - moon
 * Luna - the Moon (of Earth)
 * lup - wolf
 * lut - struggle, conflict
 * lux - light

=M=
 * mais - corn
 * mal - bad
 * malade - sick, sickness, illness
 * man - hand
 * mand - command, order
 * mar - sea, ocean
 * marbord - coast
 * marland - island
 * martil - hammer (object)
 * martilcup - to hammer (hammer-strike)
 * matr - mother
 * maxin - machine
 * mega - huge, enormous, very big
 * menas - menace, threat, to threaten
 * ment - mind, to think/feel/know/etc.
 * mentcan - mental abilities, (intelligence in the broadest sense)
 * mentwid - imagine, imagination (mindsight)
 * mesur - to measure, measurement
 * mesurwers - dimension
 * metal - metal
 * metr - meter (unit)
 * mi - somewhat, not very
 * micro - tiny, very small
 * microwidusax - microscope
 * mid - middle, center
 * mil - thousand
 * mix - mix
 * mocr - wet
 * mod - state, mood, mode
 * mof - to move, movement, motion
 * mol - soft
 * monat - month
 * mono - alone, only
 * mont - mountain
 * montete - hill
 * mort - dead, death, to be dead
 * mortir - to die, to kill (if transitive) - can be distinguished as the compounds mortirmo and mortirgo
 * multe - many, much
 * mur - wall
 * music - music (synonym: sonart)

=N=
 * na - not, no
 * naf - ship
 * nan - man (synonym: hihom)
 * nas - nose
 * nasc - birth
 * natur - nature, natural
 * neg - undo, negate
 * neir - black
 * neu - new
 * neutr - neutral, neuter
 * nod - node (startpoint or endpoint - used instead of fro and ad in cases where directionality doesn't matter or doesn't exist)
 * nof - nine
 * noit - night
 * nom - name
 * non - to deny, no
 * nord - north
 * norm - average, normal
 * nox - harm
 * noxob - to protect
 * nub - cloud
 * numer - number
 * numerlox - math
 * numermesur - count, counting
 * nus - we

=O=
 * ob - in the way, blocking, to block, obstruct
 * oc - eye
 * od - hate
 * oil - oil
 * oit - eight
 * oft - often, frequent, frequency
 * omni - all
 * ondr - too little
 * one - bigger and somewhat different version
 * op - up (direction)
 * opgresax - stairs
 * oplong - tall
 * opmur - ceiling
 * or - person who does something (synonym: gohom)
 * ordr - order, pattern
 * ordrir - to organize
 * oranx - orange (color)
 * oranxfrut - orange (fruit)
 * ost - bone
 * otr - other
 * ou - or
 * ouf - egg

=P=
 * pan - bread
 * parl - speech, language, to speak
 * parlcwal - accent
 * paper - paper, page
 * part - part
 * patr - father
 * pax - peace
 * ped - foot
 * pein - pain
 * pend - to hang
 * pei - to pay
 * peiax - price
 * per - complete(ness), thorough(ness)
 * perbon - perfect
 * perd - to lose, loss
 * pex - fish
 * pic - small
 * plant - plant
 * plat - flat, plane
 * plen - full
 * plic - to fold
 * plu - more
 * pluf - rain, "it is raining"
 * plufobtenax - umbrella
 * plum - feather
 * plupon - to add
 * poc - few
 * pon - to put
 * pont - bridge
 * por - for, purpose
 * port - to carry
 * post - after, later
 * pre - before, earlier
 * precred - to assume, (pre)suppose
 * prend - to take
 * prim - fundamental, prime, irreducible
 * primcem - chemical element
 * primnumer - prime number
 * pro - forward, in front of
 * procred - to expect, expectation
 * proscep - plan
 * prob - to test
 * prox - near
 * pter - wing
 * punt - point, dot
 * purpl - purple
 * pux - push, press

=R=
 * radix - root
 * ramp - slope
 * rar - rare, infrequent
 * rapid - fast, speed
 * re - again, repetition
 * rex - to rule
 * rexgrup - government, ruling class
 * rexurb - capital city
 * rect - straight
 * rectangl - 90-degree angle
 * rectanglform - rectangle
 * reit - right (direction)
 * ri - back, backwards, behind
 * rid - to laugh
 * ridax - joke
 * risc - risk, danger
 * roc - rock, stone
 * rocost - fossil
 * rop - rope, cord
 * rot - wheel
 * rug - rough
 * rut - route, path, way
 * rux - red

=S=
 * sabl - sand
 * sac - bag
 * saf - to know, smart/knowledgeable
 * safax - information
 * sal - salt
 * salt - to jump
 * sam - same
 * san - health, healthy
 * sanirhaus - hospital
 * sanirstof - medicine
 * sanist - doctor
 * sang - blood
 * sat - set, collection
 * satis - enough
 * scent - to smell, sense of smell
 * scentax - odor, aroma, scent
 * scep - to think, thought
 * scepax - idea
 * scepcan - intelligent, intelligence (ability to think)
 * scepmaxin - computer
 * scol - to teach
 * scolhaus - school
 * scrib - to write
 * scribax - writing (i.e. something that is written)
 * se - oneself (pronoun)
 * sec - dry
 * secland - desert
 * sed - to sit
 * sedax - seat, chair
 * selon - according to, relative to, relativity
 * sem - seed
 * sent - to feel, feeling
 * serpent - snake
 * ses - each other
 * set - seven
 * sfer - sphere, ball
 * sif - if, condition (use as a postposition is like using "if-then" as one word)
 * sil - violent, violence
 * sillut - fight, violent conflict
 * silprend - to rob
 * six - six
 * sneu - snow, "it is snowing"
 * sol - sun
 * solid - solid
 * son - sound
 * sort - sort, type, category
 * spos - spouse
 * sta - to stand
 * start - to start, begin
 * stei - constant, unchanging, to stay, still
 * ster - star
 * sterlox - astronomy (not astrology)
 * sterpredir - astrology
 * stof - stuff, matter
 * stomac - stomach
 * storm - storm, "it is storming"
 * strat - layer
 * stret - narrow
 * struic - to build, act of building
 * struicax - building
 * struicneg - to destroy
 * sub - under, below, region of space below something
 * sud - south
 * sujet - subject, topic, about
 * super - over, above, region of space above something
 * swaf - smooth

=T=
 * ta - he, she, it
 * tabl - table
 * tas - cup
 * tecno - craft, skill
 * tel - far
 * teldon - to send (lit. "far-give")
 * telsonusax - telephone
 * telwidcest - television
 * telwidusax - telescope (not television)
 * tem - they, them
 * ten - hold
 * tens - tight, tense
 * tent - try, attempt
 * Tera - Earth (the planet)
 * tigr - tiger
 * tim - fear, afraid
 * tir - pull
 * tiun - thin
 * torax - chest, thorax
 * torc - to twist, wind
 * torn - to turn
 * trans - across, through
 * transiso - symmetry, symmetrical
 * tre - very
 * trem - to shake, tremble
 * tri - three
 * trianglform - triangle
 * trist - sad
 * tro - too much
 * trofjer - arrogant, arrogance
 * troc - trade
 * tru - hole
 * trufic - to dig
 * tu - you (singular)
 * tub - tube, pipe
 * tux - touch
 * txai - tea

=U=
 * ult - last
 * un - one (number), a, an
 * und - wave
 * ungl - nail, claw
 * ut - (particle) close/end a prepositional phrase
 * urb - city
 * urs - bear
 * us - use, to use, with (instrumental)
 * usax - tool, means

=W=
 * wacu - empty, without, -less, absence
 * wad - to go, come
 * wadmaxin - vehicle
 * wadsed - to ride
 * walor - value, worth, importance, valuable, important
 * wan - ten thousand
 * wapor - steam, vapor
 * wei - way, method, process, by (instructive)
 * wend - to sell, sale, selling, for sale
 * wendhaus - shop, store
 * went - wind
 * wer - true
 * werlei - logic
 * werwidir - to prove, proof
 * werprend - to perceive, perception
 * werd - green
 * werdedax - vegetable
 * wers - direction, towards
 * west - west
 * wid - to see, seeing, sight
 * widax - image
 * widir - to show
 * wil - "will," future-tense modal verb, future event
 * wilcron - future
 * win - wine
 * winc - to win, to defeat someone, victory
 * witr - glass
 * wol - want, desire
 * word - word
 * wordbuc - dictionary (word-book)
 * wordpor - meaning (of word)
 * wordsat - vocabulary (word-set)
 * wos - you (plural)
 * wox - voice
 * wud - would (conditional marker,) hypothetical/conditional event
 * wurm - worm

=X=
 * xal - shell
 * xambr - room, chamber
 * xans - chance, probability, probable, might
 * xant - to sing, song
 * xanx - change, to change, changing
 * xarp - sharp
 * xapo - hat
 * xas - to hunt, chase
 * xel - sky
 * xerx - to search, look for
 * xi - female
 * xirc - circle, around
 * xircleic - round
 * xmut - dirt
 * xocolat - chocolate
 * xois - choice, to choose
 * xu - shoe
 * xur - sure, certain, certainty