Andorii
The main language on Andoria are the language of Andorii.
Andorii Terms
- ceara: traditional clothing among zhen
- challorn: a sweet smelling flower
- eketha: a hardwood tree
- elta: a floral tree
- grelth: an arachnid
- hari a flatbread
- katheka: a stimulant analogous to coffee
- kheth: the temporary pouch that grows over and around the lower abdomen of a zhavey for the final phase of Andorian gestation
- klahz: an animal known for its careless way of moving
- saf: a psychoactive chemical refined from an Andorian plant, used in the shelthreth and generally available only by medical prescription on Andor. Possesion of saf is illegal off Andor.
- shapla: a betrothal symbol; woven locks of hair from bondmates
- shax: a poisonous parasitic insect that nests under the skin of its host
- shaysha: an edible beetlelike insect
- shelthreth: ritual consummation of marriage for the purpose of conception
- taras: a kind of tree
- tezha: sexual union outside the shelthreth
- vithi: an edible flower
- xixu: a marine plant whose fronds may be mashed and used in baby food
- zhiassa: a zhaveys milk
- zletha: a flower
- Terms and definitions come from the Glossary of Andorii Terms found at the back of Worlds of Deep Space Nine volume one.
Graalek/Graalen
Written Graalek
Graalek is the written form of Graalen, a native language of Andoria.
Graalen is a consonontal-root language where consonant pairs provide a word's core subject matter, while the vowels specify the word's type. For example, the consonant pair ND-R connotes worlds, planets, or "everything." The vowel set A-O indicates a simple singular noun. So Andor means, simply, "world" while Ondara means "music" (literally: the sound the world makes). The suffix -YA or -IA modifies a noun to prominence, so when Andorians became aware of other worlds, their world became more popularly known as Andoria, meaning the world.
The round symbols are Andorian vowels. (LUG: "The Andorians: Among the Clans")
