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 generally 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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Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
aalth |
animal made into pets |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ah'hrak |
the Forge |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ahkh |
the Great War |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ahkor |
a large bird (beautiful copper,
gold, and chrome colored feathers, noted for its courage and grace) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
akspra |
the follower of an inadequate
philosophy |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
a'kweth |
the hidden (intelligences of the
deep sand on Vulcan) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
alieth |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
anauk |
(male personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
arie'mnu |
passion's mastery (often mistranslated as "lack of emotion"
or "suppression of emotion" or "control of emotion") |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
arlanga |
mountain range near Shi'Kahr on
Vulcan |
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear"
[Alan Dean Foster] |
a'shav |
nation-state? on Vulcan
containing the city Shi'Kahr |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ashif |
name of asteroid belt and space
station there |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ashv'cezh |
revenge worse than death |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
asumi |
Vulcan combat sport/dance |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra
Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
a'Tha |
immanence - the direct
experience of the being or force responsible for the creation and
maintennance of the universe (a sense of the existence and presence of God) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
balev |
name of Vulcan House |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
cha' |
son of (prefix) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
chakh' |
plant whose dried strings were
used to weave hunting nets |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
cheveh |
a type of scavenger |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
chkariya |
weasel-like Vulcan creature |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
cthia |
reality-truth - the truth about
the universe, the way things are rather than the way we would like them
to be. It embraces the physical and inner realities both at once, in all their changes. The concept says that if we do not tell the universe the truth about itself, if we don't treat it and the people in it as what they are, real and precious, it will turn against us, and none of our affairs will prosper. (Modern Vulcan word often inaccurately translated as "logic") |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
da'Nikhirch |
supernova that appeared when
Surak was born (lit: the Eye of Fire) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
de'Khriv |
chief city of Lhai nation on
Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
d'mallu | caniverous plant (vines ensnare prey) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] "Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster] |
duveh |
province on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
evekh |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
gelevesh |
(ship name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Gracka |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
grake |
(male personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
hanesh |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
harauk |
(male personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
hehei |
place known for its gemstones |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
hei-Nekhlavah |
(from a place?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
heya |
mountain |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
hr'Khash'te |
Expunging group (one of the three legislative bodies that
handles Vulcan's planetary legislation, its function is to veto or
remove laws - removing a law requires 1/4 of its 2006 members to be in agreement) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
inoor |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
irik |
nation on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
jah |
(a bit, a wit, an iota?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
kaiidth |
sign of resignation (what is,
is - no point in agitating one's self over what you cannot control) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
ka nifoor |
the most basic ritual of Vulcan
maturity (5 yrs old is too young for it) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
kasa |
juice |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders"
[Jean Lorrah] |
k'asumi |
the lethal all out form of
asumi, never practiced except to the death |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
kehlevt |
family house (a rich one) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
kesh |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
khoteth | (male personal name) | "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
khut |
watcher (noun) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
krawkra |
don't worry about it, it's
nothing (a complex Vulcan term roughly equivalent to the Spanish "de
nada") |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
kreyla |
type of bread, delicious crisp
biscuits in a variety of flavors |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
k'vath |
enter, come, proceed |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
kavife |
challenge, alternate grammatical
form pertaining to the form and subject of the challenge |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
lahirh |
nation-state on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
lahirhi |
(form of lahirh) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
lanka-gar |
night flying predator |
"Sarek" [A.C.Cripen] |
lasha |
type of precious stone (used in
personal ornamentation, e.g. a
necklace) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
lassiriheh |
province on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
lhai |
nation on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
mahak |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
mahn'heh |
one-time protectorate on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
maut akspra |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
mishih |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
na |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
nakh |
ancient form of currency |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nakh'lanta |
restaurant in the old city part
of shi'kahr |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nak'meth |
name of a great sword |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nashih |
(clan name?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
na'Tha'thhya |
the Passing-On, the investiture
of one's self-that-has-been in katra mode, so that it might not be lost
to the Other |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nehau |
vibes, the feeling in your bones
that something gives you, (highly subjective) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nesheh |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
nevasa |
40 Eridani A, the Vulcan sun |
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen] |
nomikh |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
noor |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
nortakh |
(male personal name) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
numkwa |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
numosma |
the Plank-Wheeler length (the
scale of the very small where space breaks down into a maze of
singularities) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
olojhica |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
orniaga |
irritated |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
ovek |
nation-state on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
pau |
corona |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
pekev |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Pelasht |
it was once a fortress and the only site for thousands of
miles where water sprang from the stone; (until the time of Surak, wars were fought over its possession even when the winner might only possess it for a day) It is currently the site of the Vulcan Science Academy in Shi'Kahr |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Phelsh't |
clan that held a mountain spring
area which acquired the same name before they were conquered by the
clan of the Eye |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
pstha |
search, hunt |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
radak |
(male personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
rasha |
(ship name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
reshek |
third letter of the Vulcan
alphabet |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
retakh |
place near one of Vulcan's poles |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
sakht |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
sas-a-shar |
a desert (called Vulcan's Forge
by humans) |
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster] |
sasav |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
savesh |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
sekar |
(male personal name) | "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
selv |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
sendet |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
senek |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
sepek |
(male personal name) |
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster] |
sev |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
sfisth |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
|
s'haile |
title of profound respect pertaining to acknowledgement of a high level of personal accomplishment and commanding presence to which one would properly pay homage. The closest Terran equivalent would be the concept of a royalty that is not born but made - in fact, self-made. In that sense it might be rendered "Lord" by one who speaks as equal and as "My Lord" by one who does not. |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
shanaikahr |
capital city on Vulcan |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
shatarr |
type of poisonous Vulcan lizard |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
shath |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
silek |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
skaren |
(personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
skep |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
snarth |
quasi-intelligent mammalian
predator of Vulcan |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
sochya |
peace |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
sofek |
(male personal name) |
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster] |
sorel |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders"
[Jean Lorrah] |
sotek | (male personal name) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
soton |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
spelak |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
spet |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
spyorna |
a governing body perhaps of the
Vulcan Science Institute? |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
sreil |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
srikh |
(small denomination copper cash
currency, penny?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
stark |
(male personal name) |
"Star Trek Log One: Yesteryear" [Alan Dean Foster] |
starok |
(male personal name) | "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
s'task |
(male personal name; famous
disciple of Surak) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
stef |
(male personal name; father of
Surak) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
stelen |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
stelin |
(personal name) aVulcan whose
writings adress themselves to the clarity of logical deduction. |
"The Romulan Strategem" [Robert
Greenberger] |
storil |
(male personal name) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
storn |
(male personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
strovadorz |
philosopher |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
suvel |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
suvin |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
svaid |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
svonn |
(male personal name) | "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
t'aimnu |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'aria |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tasav |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
ta'valsh |
place on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tcha-besheh |
the underliers (intelligences of
the deep sand on Vulcan) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tekav |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tekeh |
area on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
teleiw |
(clan name?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tes |
(male personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
theris |
tea |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'hy'la |
friend, brother, lover |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
thyvaj |
asumi empathic mirroring
exercise first developed by ancient warrior-brothers on Vulcan |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath0 |
tikh |
a native grain-bearing grass (a
Vulcan staple) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'khut |
Vulcan's companion planet,
the female name form of the noun "watcher"; the eye that opens and
closes (but that, legend later said, always sees, and sees most and best in the dark) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'kosa |
(female personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
t'kuht |
Vulcan's sister planet (an
eccentric orbit that brings it close to Vulcan every seven years; there is also a 300 year cycle where it comes closer still) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'leia |
(female personal name; mother of
Surak) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'lie |
{female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'madh |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'meheh |
(personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'mir |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'nie |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'par |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'peyra |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'pree |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'prylla |
(female personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
t'ra |
(personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'raus |
(female personal name) |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
trihr |
a hard almost-black wood (which
may be used in the construction of Vulcan harps) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
trilya |
type of marriage |
"Corona" [Greg Bear] |
t'rukh |
Vulcan's tidally locked sister
planet, it orbits at 149895.3579 Federation standard km (the name
varies depending on the time of year) |
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen] |
t'rukhemai |
moon of t'rukh, in a low, fast
moving orbit (lit: eye of the watcher) |
"Sarek" [A.C.Crispen] |
t'sai |
(female personal name) |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
t'sel |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'sey |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'shevat |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tshin |
preditory animal on Vulcan which
was once hunted |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'sia |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'sura | (female personal name) | "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
t'thelaih |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tu'khrev |
regional capital on Vulcan |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'vareth |
undisciplined cub, disobedient
and subnormal whelp of an undesirable species. not a term of
endearment |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
t'vei |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
t'vel |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
t'vet |
the patron saint or goddess
(it's not clear if she was a real person) of the warrior clans, the
female force toward racial survival, she was perceived as protecting
the warriors in their hunt for food and water to keep the women and
children of a clan alive through the summer; there is only one active
shrine still dedicated to the worship of T'Vet located at the foot of
the l-langon mountains; T'Vet's followers believe in the basic argument
that when the struggle is removed from life, the weak survive to
propagate and racial strength is diluted. |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
tviokh |
neighbor (pejorative, it implies
someone may live on the next piece of land but that you would prefer
they were under it rather than on it) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
tzaled |
the ultimate Vulcan level of
loyalty in which one takes responsibility for the well-being of the
other even over his protests |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
t'zan |
(female personal name) |
"The Vulcan Academy Murders" [Jean Lorrah] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation |
Source |
urekh |
(ship name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
vach |
(personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
vakhen |
one of the flying predators of
the lesser mountains |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
va'ne'meLakht |
a refuge built for sunstorm
weather in Shi'Kahr (lit: "hiding from the Rage") although on the other
side of the city from the Academy, it is currently overseen by the Academy and used for the biggest lectures and meetings and some ceremonial occassions |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
V'asumi |
the sport/practice form of asumi
in which strength may be restrained against a weaker opponent, but
speed and skill must be used to train the other's full potential |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
velekh |
(house name, "high house"?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
v'kreeth |
name of a Vulcan ship and title
given to its commander by Humans |
"The Prometheus Design" [Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath] |
vrekatra |
receptacle for holding a katra |
"The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
Vulcan Word or Phrase | Conjectured English Translation | Source |
yehenik |
(house name, "old house"?) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
yhri |
faction, international Vulcan
terrorist group |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
yie |
little burrower |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
yiliw |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
yiluv |
(female personal name) |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
yiwa |
peninsula - one of the largest
markings on the near side of T'Khut, it contains large crater from early matter-antimatter weapons testing |
"Spock's World" [Diane Duane] |
Vulcan Word or Phrase |
Conjectured English Translation | Source |
zakal | the fury, the desert storm |
novel "The Lost Years" [J.M.Dillard] |
from "Spock's World" [Diane Duane] -
Hwath ta-jevehih tak rehelh kutukk'sheih nei ya 'ch'euvh