Pronunciation Key:
Vowels:
a -- "a" in ball
ah -- "o" in hot if spoken about twice normal speed
ai -- "i" in nice
au -- "ou" in house
e -- "e" in bed
eh -- "e" in yet spoken about twice normal speed
ei -- "a" in same
ih -- as "i" in hit
i -- "ee" in seem
o -- "o" in home
oh -- "o" in throat with lips rounded, like a short Scandinavian
"å"
oi -- "oy" in boy
u -- "oo" in soon
uh -- "u" in ugly but with lips more rounded
Doubling an individual vowel lengthens the sound, but doesn't change
it.
Consonants -same as English except:
c -- not usually used, either k or s will be used depending on the
sound
ch -- always hard as "ch" in cheese
kh -- close to the "ch" in German Bach or Scottish loch
j -- not usually used except at the beginnings of words, "dzh" is often
interchanged with it
th -- always hard like "th" in thank
y -- always a consonant, as "y" in yellow
zh -- like the second "g" in garage
Doubled consonants:
ll -- drawn out, often slightly trilled
mm -- at the end of a word, almost like "muh"
nn -- at the end of a word, almost like "nuh"
rr -- drawn out, often slightly rolled
ss -- drawn out, almost like a slight hiss
Vulcan includes consonant combinations that never occur in English.
There are no silent letters, you must pronounce all letters.
Accentuation:
In words with 2 syllables, the stress gererally falls on the first
syllable or vowel.
In words with 3 or more syllables, the stress usually falls on the
second syllable or vowel.
Vocabulary (Vulcan to English)
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][apochryphal Vulcan words from sources such as novels, etc.]
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| ahn'- | ancient | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| ahn'-wun | a ritual weapon rather like our bolo; a long leather strap with a round weight at each end |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| aifa | these (very) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ak'- |
soon (prefix) |
|
| ak'wikman | surprises | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| akarshif | long; a long time (for many seasons) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| akas-a | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| akhla | among | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| akhla-mi | among us | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| akteiben |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
|
| amonak | temple on Vulcan | [VOY] |
| -an |
added to a name, similar to Mr.
or Ms. (suffix) |
|
| arev |
desert wind; (name Syrran went
by when he first met Archer & T'Pol) |
"The Forge" [ENT] |
| at |
deconstruction |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| aushfa | animal (n.) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| aushfamaluhr | animal, beastly, savage (adj.) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| avaldevek |
colleague |
"Home" [ENT] |
| avaldi |
colleague |
"Home" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| bai'- |
by means of, due to, through,
via (prefix) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Gravity" [VOY] |
| bai'elkhrul-akteiben | attainment (lit: through-entire-?) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| bai'lak-pa | self-pity | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| banu | speak of / about | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| ben | to us | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| bendii | a specific disease | "Sarek" [TNG] |
| borathas | I ? | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| buhf | perfection | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| buhfik | perfect | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| bush-tweena |
"Home" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| chang | diversity | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| chu'lak | (male person name) | "Field of Fire" [DS9] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| d'kyr | (ship name) | "Shockwave, part 2" [ENT] |
| d'vahl | granted (name of survey ship) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] "Carbon Creek" [ENT] |
| dakh | cast out (v.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| delvok | (male person name) | "Melora" [DS9] |
| dif | long life | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| dif-tor | live long, live a full life |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| dom | so! (vocative exclamation) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| donina | tradition | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| du (singular; alone or after a consonant sound) |
you (compare with the word "tu") | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| dund-a | possible | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| dung- |
will, shall |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| dungi- | will (v.) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| dungi-tu | will you? | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| dutar | diplomat |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| ee'chiya |
(name of pet sehlat) |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| eh (after a vowel sound) | and (compare with the word "heh") | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ei | from, which | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ek'- | all, total, complete, pan-, exceedingly, almost too much to
be described |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ek'zhirka | all emotion(s) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| elkhrul (-) |
entire (adj.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| -'es |
-ness, -ity, -ty, -cy, -ment,
-tion (suffix) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| estuhl | touch(es) (v.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| et |
us, we |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| etak | stone | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] |
| et-wel |
us, we (superior) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| fai |
known |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| fal | hot, (from fusion, joining) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| falor | (male person name) | "Innocence" [VOY] |
| fal-tor | fuse, (re)join, put back together |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| fal-tor-pan | refusion, ("the" Refusion of body and 'katra') | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| fal-tor-voh | healing fusion, (a mind meld from a close family member which
is the cure for a specific degenerative neurological condition) |
"Endgame" [VOY] |
| farr | time, period, cycle | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| fas | cook |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| fasei | from us (when a superior or group leader is speaking) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| fei' | your |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| fei'sahr | your run | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| fi'- | on, atop, upon (prefix) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| fi'aifa | on these (very) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| fi | challenge | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| fo | shell |
"Broken Bow" [ENT] "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| fova | pretend | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| foran | play-act | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| foras | I am play acting | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| foshuhl | shed; renounced (v.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| fullara | an obsolete technique used to repress memories and the emotions associated with those memories |
"The Seventh" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| gaspar | a type of fruit | "Home" [ENT] |
| gish- |
expect |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| gishen | what one expects | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| gol | famed high plain region on Vulcan; home to the Kolinahru and
others |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Gambit" [TNG] |
| gor-an | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| gree |
"Home" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| ha | yes, affirmative |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| haadok | (male person name) | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] |
| ha-lohk | affection, love | "Alter Ego" [VOY] "Gravity" [VOY] |
| heh (alone or after a consonant sound) |
and (compare with the word "eh") | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| heya | mountain | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| hif | to | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| hif-bi | to me (superior) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| hirakis | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| hokni |
conscious |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| hokni'es | consciousness ("this consciousness" - one which is sensed) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| i'- | now, at this moment (prefix) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| -i- | (used to join two root words to make a compound noun) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| ik | the one of which, the subject | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| ik-banu | the one of which I speak, the subject of discussion | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| ish'- | that (prefix) |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| ish'taya | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] | |
| ish'veh | he, she, it (lit: "that-one") | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| j'kah | a stone used in the Kohlinahr ritual | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] |
| j'ral | (a class of supernova) | "Civilization" [ENT] |
| jaral | granted | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| jossen | (male personal name) | "The Seventh" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| k'- | with, by (prefix) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| k'etwel | here (lit: with us) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| k'fai | through |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| k'fai'ei | through which | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| k'oh- (k'oh'-) | with feeling, emotional | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| ka | same, equal | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| -kahr | city, (-)town, -burg(h), -bourough, -ton, -ville (suffix) |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| kahs'- | test of, ordeal of | "Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| kahs-wan | test of passage to adult hood, ordeal of Maturity (it lasts from 7 to 11 days) |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| kal | allowance, permission | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kali |
challenge |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| kal-i-farr | does anyone object to the marriage? (lit: time to challenge?) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| kali-fi | challenge |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| kal-rekk | holiday - day of atonement, silence, and solitude | "Meld" [VOY] |
| kal-tor | allow, let | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kal-toh | a game described as Vulcan chess | "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| -kam | (suffix denoting affection, usually parent-child) | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| kanan | stun | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| kash |
mind(s) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kash-kau | mind(s) (e.g. that are joined, melding, etc.) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ka'tra | the living spirit; all that is not of the body (lit:
equal-body) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kau | wisdom, (melding) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kaush |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
|
| -kel | building, structure, (has been born, has been generated, has been sent out) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ken |
understood |
"Home" [ENT] |
| keru |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| khaf | blood | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| khav- |
brown |
"Raijin" [ENT] |
| khavorta | a posture in Vulcan neuropressure | "Raijin" [ENT] |
| ki'- | have, has (+ verb, participial, prefix indicating perfect past tense) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kilko(-srashiv) | answer (n.) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kinis | (male person name) | "In the Flesh" [VOY] |
| kir'shara | ancient repository of Surak's writings |
|
| ki'saka | have thought | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| ki-tha-ra (alternate spelling: keethara) |
structure of harmony (a type of block art) |
"Flashback" [VOY] |
| ki'sarlah | have come (it has come) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kitok- | else, other (prefix) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kitok-wilat | elsewhere, another place | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kling | not one, no-one, nobody | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| kling-akhlami | nobody (lit: not one among us) | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| kohl | emotion purging mind exercise (Vulcan style-meditation) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kohl-i-nahr (alternate spelling: kolinahr) |
Vulcan ascetic discipline designed to purge one of all emotions (lit: feelings-purge-exposed) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kol |
stew (n.) |
"Gravity" [VOY] |
| kolu | mixture, combination | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| kol-uchang | the Vulcan concept of IDIC | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| ko'min | human (lit: emotional humanoid) | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| konahr | feeling of being completely exposed in a vulnerable situation | "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| kors- |
save, preserve, conserve |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| korseiven | saved from (by means of) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| koshtri | race, species | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| koss | (male person name) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| kov | rock, stone (male person name) | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| kroika (alternate spelling: kroykah) |
stop!, halt!, be still!, silence!, (order in the court!) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| k'tur | with out logic (lit: with no-logic) | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| kulah | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] | |
| -kuh | (suffix used to indicate a cardinal number) as | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kun- | "Amok Time" [TOS] | |
| kun-ut | bond mate, spouse | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| kun-ut so'lik | ritual marriage proposal | "Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| kun-ut kali-fi | ritual marriage challenge |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| kup- | able to, can (prefix) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kup-stariben | able to speak (can speak) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| kwi' | from a distance, from far away, tele- (prefix) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| kwi'lari | focal points of body's bioelectric fields at the sides of the
skull; chakras |
"The Muse" [DS9] |
| kwi'shoret | calling from afar (calling from space) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| lak |
extra, third (which trivializes
the first two) |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| -lan |
military rank (suffix) |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| lara | Vulcan desert bird |
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| le- |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
|
| le-matya | carnivorous leopardlike reptilelike animal with green-white diamand-shaped markings in its fur, it inhabits the deserts of Vulcan; its claws inflict a deadly poison |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| l'- | chief of, great |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| lik | desire for, proposal |
"Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| lir-an | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| lir-pa | a particular Vulcan weapon | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| li'sala | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| lo'- | without, lack of | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| lojal | (male person name) | "The Forsaken" [DS9] |
| lohk | attachment, love | "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| lorot | (male person name) | "Infinite Regress" [VOY] |
| lo'zhirka | logic (lit: lack of emotion) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| luras | I implore / beg (you) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| ma |
have, own, possess |
"The Andorian Incident" [ENT] |
| ma- | very, highly, exceptional(ly), extra-, ultra-
(prefix) |
"The Andorian Incident" [ENT] |
| mahna |
"Marauders" [ENT] |
|
| -maluhr | -like | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| mas | best | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| matya |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
|
| may'mora | (ship class) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| mazhiv | sand(s) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| menos | (male personal name) | "The Seventh" [ENT] |
| mestrahl | (male person name) | "Carbon Creek" [ENT] |
| mi | us | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| min | humanoid life | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| min-shara | suitable for humanoid life | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| mir-an | yourself | "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| mir-ot | not see | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| mo |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| moraya | are real, existing | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| mos | soft, softly |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| mosh | a being, person | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| mot | precisely, exactly | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| moyeht | right | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| muro | put down | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| murok | (male personal name) | "Cease Fire" [ENT] |
| murina | hear (me) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| na'- |
at, to(wards); for |
|
| nahp | thought(s) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| nahr | discipline | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| nar | acceptance | "Alter Ego" [VOY] "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| nar'ru | a food stuff that grows on vines | "Home" [ENT] |
| navorkot | an evasive duck-and-tumble technique (one of the simpler moves in "Suus Mahna" to master) |
"Marauders" [ENT] |
| navun | success | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| nerun |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| ni'- |
below, under, sub- (prefix) |
"Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT] |
| ni | so, such a |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| nirak | fool (derived from the name of a famous Vulcan fool) |
"Kir'Shara" [ENT] |
| ni'var | (ship name) | "Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT] |
| nom | the philisophical concept of "all" | "The Savage Curtain" [TOS] |
| nuran | a thing for which there is no hope, something that is dying, that which won't survive |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| oh | feeling | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| onevek |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| oratt | (male personal name) | "Stigma" [ENT] |
| orf | the past | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| orfik | pertaining to the past | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| orfik-kel | ancestors, forebearers, progenitors | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| oth | survival | "Displaced" [VOY] |
| ot-lan | captain (army/marines); lieutenant (navy/Starfleet) |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| ovsots | complete, total, pure purging | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| pak | loss | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| palikau |
to commense, to begin |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| pan | again, re- | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| par | sneaking (around) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| pash | trap | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| pashtah | trap | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| pau |
corona, halo |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| pihlora (alternate spellings: pailora, pyllora) | couselor, meditation guide, a person who acts as a guide during a meld meditation |
"Feedback" [VOY] |
| p'jem | (place name) | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] "Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT] |
| plak | (Vulcan) blood | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| plak-tau (alternate spelling: plak-tow) |
blood fever [during mating season] | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| plom | a vegetable | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| plom-is | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| plom-ik | vegetable (adj., as in "vegetable" soup) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| po'- |
after-, post- (prefix) |
"Home" [ENT] |
| po |
why |
"Home" [ENT] |
| pok |
ready, ripe |
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| pok tar | a Vulcan food | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| pon | mating; joining; bonding | "Amok Time" [TOS] "Bounty" [ENT] |
| pon-farr | mating cycle (lit: time of joining) | "Amok Time" [TOS] "Bounty" [ENT] |
| pon-fo | (you) go join (mate) with |
"Broken Bow" [ENT] "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| poprah | (to) receive | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| pralaya | a wave |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| pura | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| rani | purpose | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| rolaya | the way | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| ri- | no-, non-, il-, ir-, not (prefix) |
"The Final Frontier" [ST5] |
| rillan | a type of grease used in the Rumarie orgies | "Meld" [VOY] |
| rum'arie | an ancient Vulcan holiday | "Meld" [VOY] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| s'- | from, out of; by (as in the author of, etc.) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| sa'- |
ex-, outward-, from out of, away
from (combining form) |
|
| saavik | (female person name) | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| s'at | an analysis; an intellectual deconstruction/ breaking apart |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| sahr | run |
"Strange New World" [ENT] |
| sahrafel | trust (me) (v.) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| saka | thought (v.) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| sakar | (person name) | "The Ultimate Computer" [TOS] |
| sakas | (I) think | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| sakkath | (male person name) | "Sarek" [TNG] |
| sakonna | (female person name) | "The Maquis" [DS9] |
| san |
emotional patterns |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| sarek | (male person name) | "Journey to Babel" [TOS] |
| sarlah | to come | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| satelk | (male person name) | "The First Duty" [TNG] |
| satok | (male person name) | "Gambit, part 2" [TNG] |
| sehlat | bearlike animal native to Vulcan, (often domesticated as a pet) |
"Journey to Babel" [TOS] |
| sek | (male person name) | "Hunters" [VOY] |
| selar | (female person name) | "The Schizoid Man" [TNG] |
| selek | (male person name) | "Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| senva | (person name) | "Prophet Motive" [DS9] |
| setebuhk | symbol | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| sha'- | ones own, personal, self- (prefix - personal possessive) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| sha'ka-ri | Vulcan mythical source of creation; Eden (lit: not our
equal) |
"The Final Frontier" [ST5] |
| sha'koshtri | one's own race or species |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| shan |
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
|
| shanar |
"Cold Front" [ENT] |
|
| she |
ascend, rise |
"Home" [ENT] |
| shan |
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
|
| shan-shot | engulf-? | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| shan-tavi |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| shar | executioner, security force (police) | "Gambit, part 2" [TNG] |
| shara | secured, suitable for | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| shau |
break (v.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| shau-kaush | passion(s) (lit: break-? ) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| sha'-ya | break |
"Journey to Babel" [TOS] "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| shi'- |
place (of), site, location
(prefix) |
"Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| shi'kahr | (city name) | "Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| shin | we (as a race) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| shir'kahr | (ship name) (city name) |
"Tears of the Prophets" [DS9] "Fusion" [ENT] |
| shon |
engulf |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| shon-ha-lohk |
the engulfment; feeling of being
"head over heels", (love at first sight) |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| shoret | call (out) to | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| sh'raan | (combat cruiser name) | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| S'l'heya (alternate spelling: Seleya) | (proper noun for a specific mountain on Vulcan, site of a
mojor ceremonial center) (lit: the great, chief of mountains) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| sloya | listen | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| smusma | prosper | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| so'- | my (male) | "Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| sofi |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| so'lik | my desire for; a proposal | "Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| solkar | (male person name) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| solok | (male personal name) | "Take Me Out To The Holosuite" [DS9] |
| son | romantic | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| sonak | (male person name) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| son-ha-lohk | the romantic kind of love | "Gravity" [VOY] |
| sopek | (male person name) | "Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT] |
| soral | (male person name) | "The Swarm" [VOY] |
| sorat | come | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| soval | (male person name) | "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| spock | (male person name) | "The Cage" [TOS] |
| srashiv | achievement | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| star- | make a noise (sound) (root word) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| star-i-ben | speak, talk (a language) (lit: make a sound to us) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| stonn | animal horn, antler (male person name) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| strom | (male person name) | "Stigma" [ENT] |
| stron | escape (n.) (male person name) | "Carbon Creek" [ENT] |
| su |
person |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| su-lak | third party (person) (who trivializes a relationship) | "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| surah'tahn | a posture in Vulcan neuropressure | "Raijin" [ENT] |
| surai | will do | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| surak | (male person name) | "The Savage Curtain" [TOS] |
| suras | (I) do, make happen | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| surat | don't do, does not happen | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| suraya | do | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| suurok | (ship class) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] "Shadows of P'Jem" [ENT] "Silent Enemy" [ENT] |
| su'us |
number |
"Marauders" [ENT] |
| suus mahna | a Vulcan martial art which takes years to master | "Marauders" [ENT] |
| sybok | (male person name) | "The Final Frontier" [ST5] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| t'- | of; belonging to (prefix) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| tah | unobtainable | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| tal'- | ritualistic, ceremonial | "Journey to Babel" [TOS] |
| tal'oth | a Vulcan ritual that required a young adult to survive
for four months in the desert with a ritual blade as their only possession |
"Displaced" [VOY] |
| tal'shanar | type of religion | "Cold Front" [ENT] |
| talu |
neck |
"Journey to Babel" [TOS] |
| talu'shaya (alternate spelling: tal-shaya) |
ritual execution by a quick painless breaking of the neck | "Journey to Babel" [TOS] |
| t'an | gamepiece (rod) used in kal-toh | "Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| tar |
"Breaking the Ice" [ENT] "Home" [ENT] |
|
| tar'hana | a particular volcano on Vulcan | "Home" [ENT] |
| tasmin | "Tazmeen", Autumn (season / month) | "Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| tau | burning, fever, on fire | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| taurik | amazing (male person name) | "Lower Decks" [TNG] |
| tavek | (male person name) | "Stigma" [ENT] |
| tavin | (male person name) | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| taya | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] | |
| tehrai | goal | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| tellus | (male person name) | "Carbon Creek" [ENT] |
| terrup | earth | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| terrupik | earthly, earthling, human (adj.) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| t'forti | finally | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| throks | give, share (with a superior) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ti | lay, lie (down), (and forgotten: must be searched for) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| ti'amah |
||
| ti'mur | (ship name) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| tish | to you | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| t'lar | (female person name) | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| t'lara | (female person name) | "Rules of Engagement" [DS9] |
| t'lokan |
||
| t'meni | (female person name) | "Hunters" [VOY] |
| t'mir | (female person name) | "Carbon Creek" [ENT] |
| t'nar | of acceptance | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| to |
"Home" [ENT] |
|
| tok | (male person name) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| tolaris | (male person name) | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| tonat | kept from (lit: not let me have) | "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| -tor | to do, to make (suffix added to some root words to convert a noun to a verb) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| tos | (male person name) | "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| tosh | individuals, people | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| t'paal | (female person name) | "Gambit" [TNG] |
| t'pan | (female person name) | "Suspicions" [TNG] |
| t'para | (female person name) | "Innocence" [VOY] |
| t'pau | (female person name) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| t'pel | (female person name) | "Data's Day" [TNG] |
| t'penna | (female person name) | "The Swarm" [VOY] |
| t'pera | (female person name) | "Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| t'plana-hath | (female person name) (survey ship name) |
"The Voyage Home" [ST4] "First Contact" [ST8] |
| t'pol | (female person name) | "Broken Bow" [ENT] |
| t'pring | (female person name) | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| -tra | mass, expanse, grouping, collection, body, accumulation,
assemblage (suffix) |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| t'san s'at |
intellectual deconstruction of
emotional patterns |
"Alter Ego" [VOY] |
| t'shanik | (female person name) | "Coming of Age" [TNG] |
| tu (singular; after a vowel sound) |
you (compare with the word "du") | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| tudanis | creature(s) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| tulara | your good life | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| tuluk |
"The Forge" [ENT] |
|
| tun-an | (you) need | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| tur | illogic, no logic | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| tura | is illogical, doesn't make sense | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| tuvok | (male person name) | "Caretaker" [VOY] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation |
Source |
| -ut |
"Amok Time" [TOS] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| V'- | Vulcan (adj.) , of or pertaining to Vulcans | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| vahklas | (older civilian ship) | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| vahl |
grant |
"The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| valeris | (female person name) | "The Undiscovered Country" [ST6] |
| vanik | (male person name) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| veh | one, (-one, -body, when used as a suffix) |
"The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| velik | simple, basic (male person name) | "Strange New World" [ENT] |
| vestal | "The Andorian Incident" [ENT] | |
| v'lar | (female person name) | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| voh | heal, make whole | "Endgame" [VOY] |
| vokau |
remember |
"The Forge" [ENT] |
| vorik | (male person name) | "Blood Fever" [VOY] |
| vrav-shal | failed (have not yet attained) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| V'shar | Vulcan security force | "Gambit, part 2" [TNG] |
| V'tosh | Vulcans | "Fusion" [ENT] |
| vu | you-yourself (reflexive) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| wakli | in what manner, in what way | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| wan | adulthood, maturity | "Yesteryear" [TAS] |
| -wel |
superior |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| -wilat | -where, -place (suffix) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| wimish | to be called/named | "The Search for Spock" [ST3] |
| worla | never | "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] |
| wuh | one (can be translated as the indefinite article "a" / "an") | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| wuh-kuh | (as) one (the number) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| wun | weapon | "Amok Time" [TOS] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| yarahla | (ship name) | "Breaking the Ice" [ENT] |
| yor-an | "Strange New World" [ENT] | |
| y'- | for | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| y'rani | for the purpose | "Fallen Hero" [ENT] |
| Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
| zhirka | emotion(s) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| zup | labor, work, job (noun) | "The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
| zup-tor | to labor(ed) (and have proved worthy) (v.) |
"The Motion Picture" [ST1] |
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Grammar Rules
[ word
order ]
Word Order in a Sentence:
(s = subject, v = verb, o = object, p = phrase)
V-S-O (Sees she the boy.) for a present or future tense
action.
S-V-O (She saw the boy.) for a past tense action, or a past
action which is continuing. (She saw and is still seeing the boy).
O-S-V (the ball you give) for imperative action.
P--P (He - the boy.) two phrases connected by an omitted
verb of being (a dash is used to represent the omitted verb).
Conjugation of Words:
Suffixes on Roots that convert
words from Verbs to Nouns, and Nouns to Verbs:
| Verb
Form |
Noun
Form |
| -tor |
- (none), -n (after a
vowel), -an (after a consonant), -'kiv, -al |
| - (none) |
-n |
| -uhl |
-a |
| -t |
-i |
| -a |
-ek |
| -i |
- (none), -h |
| -r |
- (none), -n |
| -u |
-ya |
| -ul |
-a |
| -ur |
- (none) |
Noun - Adjective pairs: (also to form
a present participle from a gerund)
Suffixes: e.g. Add -ik to the root word:
| Noun form | Adjective form |
| - (none) |
-k (after i), -ik |
| -en | -nek |
| -ek |
|
| -li (after or) |
|
| -is (after hr) |
|
| -'es |
-ik |
| -ka |
|
| -uk |
|
| -tik |
|
| -ri |
-or |
| -kur (after a word describing a
certain color) |
Conjugation of Verb Root Words:
Verb - Noun pairs:
Add -aya to the root word:
| Verb form | Noun form |
| sha (execute) | shaya (execution) |
Verb Tenses:
| Suffix | Examples | Meaning |
| *-a *-u *-uh *-au |
shau |
(basic verb form) |
| *-i | surai | will-* (future tense) |
| *-ish | to-* (infinitive verb) | |
| vesht *, *-l |
jaral | *-ed (simple past tense) |
| *-o | muro | you-* (imperative verb) |
| *-s | sakas | I-* (1st person singular verb) |
| *-t | surat | does not * (negative verb form) |
| Infinitive |
Present |
Simple Past Tense |
Perfect Past Tense |
Simple Future Tense |
Imperative |
Honorific Imperative |
|
| - (none) |
-'uh |
-'voh |
|||||
| *-tor |
vesht * |
ki-* |
dungi * |
-'uh |
-'voh |
||
| *-u |
*-l |
ki-*-l |
dungi-* |
-'uh |
-'voh |
Noun conversions:
| Suffix | Examples | Meaning |
| *-aush | (plural noun) | |
| *-aya | shaya | *-tion (noun) |
| *-n (after a vowel) *-an (after a consonent) *-yan (avoids confusion with some noun-verb pairs) |
(noun) gerund form; -ing |
|
| *-iv | mazhiv | plural noun |
| *-r | shar | force which brings about *; -act |
Dialog from "Amok Time" [TOS] -
Kroika!
Stop!
Stop
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Dialog from "The Motion Picture" [ST1] -
Dakh orfik-kel aushfamaluhr
shaukaush fi'aifa mazhiv
Castout ancestors
animal passion(s)
on-these sands
Our ancestors cast out their animal passions here on these sands.
Sha'koshtri
korseiven
bai'elkhrul-akteiben t'Kohlinahr
our race saved by means of
attainment
of Kolinar
Our race was saved through the attainment of Kolinar.
Kohlinahr -
k'fai'ei ek'zhirka
t'forti foshuhl
Kolinar: Through-which all-emotion(s)
finally shed
Kolinar: Through which all emotion is finally shed.
Zup-tor
vu akarshif
- Spahkh
I'poprah
fasei setebuhk t'ovsots-i-lo'zhirka
Labor you-yourself a-long-time,
Spock Now-recieve this-here
symbol of-total-logic
You have labored long, Spock. Now receive from us this symbol of
total logic.
Nahp - hif-bi
du throks Kashkau - Spahkh -
wuhkuh eh teretuhr
Thoughts - to-me you
give
Minds,
Spock, one
and together
Your thoughts, give them to me. Our minds, one and together.
Tish
hokni'es
kwi'shoret
-
Estuhl terrupik
khaf - Spahkh
To-you consciousness calling-from-afar... has been touched Earthling
blood, Spock
This consciousness calling to you from space... It touches your human
blood, Spock.
Du vrav-shal
srahiv
t'Kohlinahr Ti kilko-srashiv
kitok-wilat
I'tah
tehrai k'et-wel
You failed
achievement
of-Kolinar Lies
answer elsewhere
Now-unobtainable goal with not-us
You have not achieved
Kolinar. His
answer lies
elsewhere.
He will not achieve his goal with us.
Dif-tor heh smusma - Spahkh
Live-long and prosper, Spock
Live long and prosper, Spock.
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Dialog from "The Wrath of Khan" [ST2] -
Gishen
worla
ik-banu
What-one-expects never the-one-of-which-I-speak
He's never what I expect.
Wakli
ak'wikman - ot-lan?
In-what-manner surprises, lieutenant?
What surprises you, lieutenant?
Ish'veh ni komin
that-one so human
He's so human.
Kling akhlami buhfik -
Saavik-kam
not-one among-us perfect, Saavik-affection
Nobody's perfect, Saavik.
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Dialog from "The Search for Spock" [ST3] -
katra
living spirit
s'l'heya
specific mountain on Vulcan
Saavik wimish.
Kup-star-i-ben?
Saavik I-am-called. Able-to-speak?
I am Saavik. Can you speak?
Dom - ki'sarlah
So, have-come
So, it has come
Dungi tu sahrafel?
will you trust
Will you trust me?
Kal-tor pal-i-kau
Allow to-commense
Let it commense
Fal-tor-pan
Refusion
the Refusion
Ben
d'vahl navun
to-us granted
success
Grant us success.
Shaya tonat (the script says: "esparan" but this word is
never actually said on screen)
break not-let have
You kept us from dying - (The closest T'Pol would come to saying
"Thank you")
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Dialog from "Strange New World" [ENT] -
(T'Pol in the cave.)
Par
shin
surat
Sneak we(as a race) do not do
We-do not Sneak-around.
Muro fei'sahr
Put-down your run
Put down your weapon.
(T'Pol reports that Tucker is ready to kill her.)
T'Pol: Pralaya
mo-yeht,
wave exactly-right?
T'Pol: sakas fas nuran
I
think we won't survive
I-think we're in
a hopeless situation.
Sato: Li'sala kanan dunda
purge-blow stun possible?
T'Pol: Tah
rolaya mirot
unobtainable the way not-see
I don't
see how.
(Playacting is not a Vulcan tradition, but will do her best.)
Sato: Suraya mot eh
sloya
?-tion exactly and ?
"Listen and do
exactly(-what-I-say)."
Sato: Moraya
tunan
fova tudanis
real-tion you-need to-pretend the-creature(s)
"You-need to-pretend the-creatures
are-real."
T'Pol: Sakas fas
nuran lokanan
suras
I think cook
won't survive before-stun I-do
I-think (he)
is-going-to-kill me before (I) can stun (him).
T'Pol: Tura
donina foran
Is-Illogical
tradition play-acting
Play-acting is-an-illogical
tradition.
T'Pol: Mas surai
best
will-do
I will-do my best.
(T'Pol's speech to the rock-aliens.)
Murina luras!
hear-me I-impore-you!
Pon-fo
borathas plom-is yoran!
mating-shell I-?? vegetable-? n
Akasa goran foras
mi!
v n
I-am-play-acting us!
Ki'saka
liran mos
have-thought n softly
T'Pol hirakihs pura dutar...
T'Pol ???" ?
v diplomat
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Dialog from "Fallen Hero":
(When the Ambassador first comes aboard Enterprise)
T'Pol: T'nar
pak
sorat y'rani
of
acceptance loss not-? for the purpose
"Permission to come aboard?"
T'Lar: T'nar
jaral
of acceptance
granted
"Permission
granted."
Pash
tah
trap have
"Have a good night."
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Dialog from "The Andorian Incident":
Ishtaya kulah. Vestal ma etak J'Kah.
/eesh-TA-yah koo-LAH.ves-TAHL mah EE-tok zhuh-KAH/
that-tion
v
v-ed very stone of J'Kah
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Dialog from "Breaking the Ice":
(Archer calls in a guard to escort Vanik back to his ship, as he is
leaving, he turns to T'Pol).
Shan-shot tu
lar-a
ko-mosh
dead-? you Vulcan desert
bird
emotional-being
You're not a Vulcan, you would rather be an emotional Human
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