Vori language

The Vori language spoken by the Vori, when rendered through the universal translator, retained a distinct structure and used synonyms and metaphors for everyday words and with a military-oriented syntax.

Terms for an extended family used combinations of immediate family terms (i.e. mother's father rather than grandfather.) (VOY: "Nemesis")

Words and phrasesEdit

• Backwalk - back off / retreat ("it is sharper to backwalk")
• Beast - the face of the enemy; in addition, this word was used to imply that the enemy was completely immoral.
• Before - the past
• Blossoms - flowers
• Brightly - happily / cheerfully
• 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")
• Cluster mark - rendezvous point
• Colors - markings / uniform
• Cook - burn, cook, heat ("cooked by The Glare")
• Coverings - clothes ("they were his coverings")
• Crave - want ("do you crave any more?")
• Daughter's daughter - maternal granddaughter
• Defender - soldier
• Drill - teach ("Drill Chakotay to fire Vori arms.")
• Fast-walk - run / quick-march / rush ("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
• Footfalls - paces, a measure of distance
• Fullness - the whole story, summary of a situation
• The Glare - the Sun ("glimpse the glare")
• Glimpse - to see / an eye ("did you glimpse the Nemesis?"; "close your glimpses")
• Gloried - highly held / glorified / great
• Greeted - welcomed
• Grey - old (person) ("he's too grey to be of use")
• In the now - in the present
• Motherless - generic insult
• Mother's father - maternal grandfather
• Mother's mother - maternal grandmother
• Nemesis - enemy
• New-light - dawn
• Novice - rookie, a newly-trained soldier
• Nullify, nully - to kill / to be killed ("they were nullified")
• Plantings - crops / harvest ("they took our plantings")
• Power - religious / god-concept ("We beg peace from the Power who made us Vori...")
• Rages - anger ("you turn your Trembles into Rages")
• Savory - tasty ("I'm afraid it's not very savory")
• Set loose - let go ( "Set my mother's father loose! Please! Let him loose!" )
• Sharp - clever / wise / smart / better ("it would be sharp to wait until new-light")
• Shroud - hide
• Signal - call / contact
• Sly - hide ("sly yourselves and fire back!")
• Soon-after - future ("In the soon-after, we'll send them flying from this sphere")
• Sphere - planet
• Sturdy - strong ("He's very gray, and his heart's not sturdy")
• Suffice - enough ("But does it suffice him to nullify you?")
• Tellings - words / knowledge; orders ("do my tellings")
• Tend - care for / protect
• Toiling - working
• The trembles - fear / cowardice ("you've got the trembles")
• Told - said ("well told, Novice.")
• Top - head ("keep your top low and your glimpses wide")
• Trunks - trees / woods ("we found him in the trunks")
• Upturned - a Vori burial disgrace, a body facing upwards after death so as to not go to the Way-after
• Way-after = the term for the Vori afterlife ("he's passed to the way-after")
• Wrestle - struggle against, overcome