The Romulan people and their language. Before the Romulans left Vulcan they created a new language using Old High Vulcan as a base. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
Rihannsu to English
Aefvadh: Be welcome. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
aehallh: monster ghost. An illusory creature cognate to nightmare, a creature that 'rides' the dreamer to his perdition. Also, the ‘image’ or illusion that one being has of another; as opposed to the true nature of the being in question. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Aehkhifv: Eradication. (ST: Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels) aekhhwi'rhoi: stone-lined sewer tunnels beneath Ki Baratan. (ST: Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels) Ael: proper name, fairly common on ch'Havran. It means "Winged". In other usage, an adjective that indicates a creature that moves quickly and gives one little time to make out details. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) afw'ein: reason, as in the use of one's faculties, rather than as the excuse one conrives to explain one's behavior. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Aidoann: uncommon proper name. "Moon" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) aihai: plains, plain country. Flatlands cognomen: "Prairie". (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Areinnye: Romulan Hell. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) arrhe: worth in cash. Originally derogatory (a servant who performed the duties of slaves below his/her rank. Modified to be "a servant more worthy of higher position than those awarded it." (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) au'e: "oh yes." Emphatic form of "oh yes!" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) auethn: advise me, answer a query. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) ch'Rihan: Rihannsu name for the planet Romulus. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) daise: prefix; chief, principal, senior, foremost, etc. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) daisemi'in: chief among several (choices, candidates). (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Daold klhu: tourists (ST: Titan: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels) deihu: "Elder"; a member of the Senate; regarded as an equivalent to the Terran senator. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) enarrain: senior centurion; colonel of infantry, commodore of fleet forces. Minimum rank at which the officer may command more than his own vessel. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Eneh hwai'kllhwnia na imirrhlhhse!!: a Romulan obsenity. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) erei'rov: subcommander; captain of infantry, lieutenant commander of fleet – usual rank for a first officer. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) erein: antecenturion/subcenturion (translation sources vary); officer-cadet of infantry, ensign of fleet forces. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) fhaihuhhru: a violent argument (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) galae: fleet; most specifically, space fleet, since the battles of Rihannsu history were principally land-based. However, there was a later, enthusiastic adoption of massed airpower in both the offensive and defensive modes and it is here, rather than in naval tradition, that the term has it origins. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) haerh, haerht: cargo space, cargo hold. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hfehan: chief servant (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hfihar, hfihrnn: House(s). Noblie families, not dwellings. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hna'h: action imperative suffix. "Fire!", "Energize!", "Go!" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hnafirh: "see" but not an active verb, passive with an implication that someone else must cooperate in the act by imparting or sharing information. Cf hnafirh'rau, "Let me/us see it." (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hnafiv: "hear" as above, hnavit'rau, "Let me/us hear it." (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hrrau: at/on/in; a general locative particle or infix. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hru'hfe: Head of household. The senior servant among domestic staff, appointed as overseer and servants manager. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hru'hfirh: Head of House, "The Lord". Most senior member of a noble family. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) h'ta-fvau: "to last-place, immediate return." (Come back here!) (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hwaveyiir: "Command-executive center"; the flight bridge of a ship, as opposed to the combat-control area (see Oira) (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) hwiiy: "You are": sometimes imperative. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) ie'yyak-hnah: "Fire phasers!" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) iehyyak: "Multiple" rather than "several" phasers, especially in reference to shipboard phaserbanks. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) khoi: "Switch off", "cease", "finish" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) khre'riov: commander – general; equivalent to a colonel of infantry or a commodore of Fleet forces. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
[b]kll'inghann:[b/] the Klingon people (however, see lloahnen'mhrael) (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Lhhei: "Madam" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Llhrei'sian: diarrhea as a result of mild food poisoning; a term exactly equivalent to "the runs", "the Titanian two-step", "the (any number of edible objects) revenge." (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Llilla'hu: That will do, that's just enough, barely adequate, sufficient. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Lloann'mhrahel: The United Federation of Planets; however, the word translates most accurately as "Them, from there" as opposed to "us, from here". The Klingons, once encountered, were promptly named khell'oann-mhehorael "More of Them, from Somewhere Else". (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Lloann'na: catchall title for a UFP member, translating exactly as "a/the Fed" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Lloannen'galae: Federation fleet, battle group, task force; the word has aggressive connotations which do not differentiate between warships and unarmed civilian vessels, but then the Rihannsu have seldom seen the need to regard the other ships then theirs as other than potential enemies. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Mnek'nra, mnekha: "well, good, correct, satisfactory." Inferior-superior and superior-inferior modes respectively. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Nei'rrh: Romulan small birds, similar in size and flight characteristics to the Terran hummingbirds with a poison-secreting spur on the upper mandible of the beak. Also an insult, referring to a person annoying or dangerous out of all proportion to their size, status, or (usually) worth. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Neth… nah'lai: Either… or (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Nuhirren: "look toward"; the quality of charisma or mass attractiveness. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Oal'lhlih: "announce the presence/the arrival" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Oira: "battle-control"; aboard war-bird class and smaller ships, this is the same bridge deck (see hwaveyiir) as the standard flight control area, although rigged for combat; but on the larger, Klingon-built Akif and K't'iwga class vessels the word refers to a separate, heavily armored area deep in the command prow. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Qiuu, qiuu'n(oaii): all, everything, "The lot" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Ra'kholh: Avenger. A popular ship name in the Rihannsu Fleet. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Rekkhai: 'sir'; inferior-superior high-phase mode. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Rha, rh'e: indeed, is that so, (oh yeah?) (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) siwren: "minutes" or at least, the Rihannsu equivalent, equal to 50.5 seconds. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Sseikea: a scavenger, analogous to the Terran hyena and employed as an insult in the same way. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Ssuaj-ha: "understood" inferior-superior mode. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Ssuej-d'ifv: "Do you understand?" Superior-inferior mode. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) Sthea'hwill: "I request (an action) be done at once". Superior-inferior courteous mode (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) ta krenn: "look here, look at this" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) ta'khoi: screen off. Usage for voice activation equipment and if used to another person, very explicit superiority. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
[b]ta'rhae: "Screen on." (see ta'khoi) (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) th'ann, th'ann-a: a/the prisoner (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) tlhei: "my word" occasionally as in "my (given) word" but more usually "my command/order/bidding" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) urru: "go to..." A non-mode imperative which if circumstances permit can be used from low to high as well as the more usual vice versa. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
[b]vaed'rae: "hear me/attend me" More imperative than "listen" and more formal. (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) vah-udt: "What rank?" as in "who are you (to be asking/doing this?)" (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood) vriha: highest, most superior (ST #35: The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood)
