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- Planet Names:
- Nyjora
- Sjandra'kei
- Ralainara
- Aniara
- Nabatea
- Kiigara Vas
- Krios
- Nerain
- Gaalsaan Rho
- Kridim
- Majiran'kal
- Sjet
- Mannoch
- Tasivas'kei
- Saju'ka
- Timekeeping:
- Pulse : irn : second
- Longpulse : sjirn : minute
- Cycle: kivas : hour
- Longcycle: sjakivas : day
- Arc: raal : month
- Longarc: sjaraal : year
- Language:
- Sj- : Prefix for long or far, such as in timekeeping or in distance
- Kri- : Prefix for high
- Nyj- : Prefix for low
- Ner- : Prefix for all
- Tas- : Prefix for none, or not
- Di- : Prefix for part of or together, similarly to ner-
- Nei: No
- Ke: Yes
- Rii: An exclamation, equivalent to a loud interjection, such at yelling 'shit'
- Sjiit: Idiot, useless thing
- Kish'tet: Bastard, curse or insult to be directed towards someone else
- Akri, arae, si: Equivalent to someone else or another, sometimes used to mean friend (tasakri or tasi or tasarae, for example, mean no-one or not-one)
- Sjakri: Outsider, foreigner, lit. "far from another", another similar word would be tasakri
- Sjatas, tasrin, sjrin, sj'tet: Alien, non-nerrin; nerrin had little contact with other species prior to their extinction but had established communications and trade relations with a few distant species, the term used varies depending on how insulting it is meant to be
- Rhirn, tas'ka: An equivalent to an underworld, hell
- Kish: Another insult, used as a shortening of kish'tet
- Kii: An equivalent to a placeworder word, such as "um" or "well", can be used as an exclamation of surprise
- Kii-i-i-i: awful mocking laughter noise that nerrin make
- Arrnhi: An expression of disbelief or incredulousness, used either on its own or in a sentence
- Nerroch: A new term, referring to achieving a sort of enlightened state through technology, lit. "all-thing"
- Nerrin: Shortening of Ner'rin, expression referring to the entire species, lit. "all-people"
- Kriirin: Shortening of Krii'rin, referring to the highlands plateau-based culture (one of the two major culture groups in nerrin history), lit. "high-people"
- Nyjrin: Shortening of Nyj'rin, referring to the lowlands jungle-based culture, lit. "low-people"
- Khel: League or family, used to describe an alliance or confederation rather than a unified unit
- Rho: Family, a small and well-connected group
- Sjandiran: Independent, lit. "far from home"
- Diran: Home
- Krei/Kei/Ka: City, fortress, citadel, place (taskrei would mean no place or nowhere, for example; tas-ka is different in that it means hell or "not-place")
- Ain: State, government, typically with codified or unified connotations in some sense
- Rin: People, a group of individuals unified in some characteristic
- Ran: Wall, fortification, sometimes used in a mental sense such as willpower (kreiran would be used to mean a walled city or fortress)
- Hal: mind, consciousness, similarly to using the term person in reference to someone's mental capacity rather than their physical body
- Nerrin names are given in the form [first name] [family or profession or societal group identified with] [clan name]; Kriok's full name would be Kriok Nyj'kiir Searae (Kriok the builder/engineer of the Se clan; other valid translations would be Kriok Nyj'kiir Seakri or Kriok Nyj'kiir Sesi); someone with the last name Tasi, Tasarae, or Tasakri would be considered an exile or outcast
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