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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 phrases[]

  • Ally – friend
  • 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.
  • Beforethe past
  • Blossomsflowers
  • 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 colorsStarfleet 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" / "two plantings ago")
  • Powerreligious / 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")
  • Sphereplanet
  • 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 tremblesfear / cowardice ("you've got the trembles")
  • Told – said ("well told, Novice.")
  • Top – head ("keep your top low and your glimpses wide")
  • Trunkstrees / 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