Vori language
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
The Vori language was unusual in that it used a high number of synonyms and metaphors for everyday words and had a military syntax.
[edit] Known words and phrases
- Backwalk = back off / retreat ("it is sharper to backwalk")
- Clash = a war / a fight ("you've landed right in the middle of a clash")
- Cluster = to regroup ("it would be sharp to cluster with the others")
- Coverings = clothes ("they were his coverings")
- Crave = want ("do you crave any more?")
- Daughter's daughter = granddaughter
- Fast-walk = run / quick-march ("they were fast-walked to the Extermination center")
- Fathom = to know / to understand / to think ("you don't fathom the Nemesis")
- Flame = to burn ("they flamed all our villages")
- Fleet colors = Starfleet uniform
- Foot-falls = paces, a measure of distance
- The glare = the Sun ("glimpse the glare")
- Glimpse = to see / an eye ("did you glimpse the Nemesis?"; "close your glimpses")
- Grey = old (person) ("he's too grey to be of use")
- In the before = in the past
- In the now = in the present
- In the soon-after = in the future
- Nemesis = enemy
- New-light = dawn
- Nullify, nully = to kill / to be killed ("they were nullified")
- Plantings = crops / harvest ("they took our plantings")
- Rages = anger ("you turn your Trembles into Rages")
- Savory = tasty ("I'm afraid it's not very savory")
- Sharp = clever / wise / smart ("it would be sharp to wait until new-light")
- Soon-after = future ("In the soon-after, we'll send them flying from this sphere")
- Sphere = planet
- Tellings = words / knowledge; orders ("do my tellings")
- The trembles = fear / cowardice ("you've got the trembles")
- Top = head ("keep your top down and your glimpses wide")
- Trunks = trees ("we found him in the trunks")
- Way-after = afterlife ("he's passed to the way-after")
