Diccionario

N A’ VI - E NGLISH D ICTIONARY v. 12.371
Compiled by Mark Miller (Markì) and Corey Scheideman (Tirea Aean)
www.LearnNavi.org
Last updated: January 13th , 2012

This is the definitive dictionary for Na’vi, the language created by Dr. Paul Frommer for
James Cameron’s film, Avatar. The words within come directly from, or are derived from, Dr.
Frommer.
Some notes: The traditional Na’vitranscription in use by Dr. Frommer has been maintained
throughout: the IPA transcription is given as well. Compound non-inflected words and loan
words from English have been noted. Some lenited words have been included if in the official
corpus. Some inflected words are included here, if their inclusion is deemed particularly useful. Note that adpositions are free if before their modifier, but are boundas a suffix if situated
after it.
Bold indicates Na’vi word. Italics indicate English definition. Plain text indicates grammatical categorization: parentheses such as «x» represents an infix, where t«pre-first»«1»ar«2»on
are the positions: Included are periods in the IPA to mark syllable divisions, and mid-dots to
show infix positions (for beginners), as in [t·a.R·on]. Irregular infixes are markedwith (ii). Transitivity is marked if known: words marked v. are either unattested or ambitransitive, or their
transitivity is unable to be deduced. Known modal verbs and verbs known to use modal syntax are marked with vim, vtrm, or vm, depending upon transitivity according to the previous
note. Knowledge of lenition and other sound changes will be assumed. Monosyllabic words
are not noted forhaving a single primary stress in the IPA; if an enclitic as added, the root will
be assumed to have primary stress. Note also that allomorphs, where specified, are subject
only to personal preference, and not syntactic or morphological rules. There are several useful
appendices that hold further information.
Abbreviations:
– = morpheme boundary
+ = leniting morpheme boundary
« » = infixmorpheme
adj. = adjective
adp. = adposition
adv. = adverb
conj. = conjunction
c.w. = compound word
dem. = demonstrative
intj. = interjection
inter. = interrogative
n. = noun
nfp. = not for people

num. = number
ofp. = only for people
part. = particle
ph. = phrase
pn. = pronoun
prop. n. = proper noun
v. = verb
svin. = stative intransitive verb
vtr. = transitive verb
vin. =intransitive verb
vm. = modal verb
vim. = intransitive modal verb
vtrm. = transitive modal verb

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An English - Na’vi dictionary, and a Dictionary Categorized by Parts of Speech are provided, and may be helpful when searching fails. Translations are also available in French, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Português and Swedish. There are also other, unfinished translations
in other languagesavailable.

Sources
We have sourced every word as best as we could. This sourcing is placed in a subscript after
the IPA transcription and reveals the source of each word. For historical interest, this dictionary was originally based on an initial list of around 500 words provided by Dr. Frommer in early
March, 2010. As the language has continued to develop, additional vocabulary has been added
as itappears in communications from Dr. Frommer via his blog and emails. Dr. Frommer has
solicited the LearnNavi.org community to help come up with new vocabulary via the Lexical
Expansion Project. This project continues and many suggested words now appear in the cannon lexicon presented in this dictionary. Other sources are words modified by unproductive
affixes that are included here if Dr. Frommerhas used them and words that have a modified
semantic meaning due to a productive affix. Order of canonicity, from most to least:
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PF = Dr. Paul Frommer
M = The Movie
JC = James Cameron
G = the Avatar Games
ASG = The Survival Guide
PND = Pandorapedia.com

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