The full lexicon of Durûm. Alphabetical by root, ignoring hyphens, apostrophes and vowel length. Suffixes are listed under their first letter (-ak under A). For the reverse direction see the English Index.
Status marks
| Mark | Meaning |
|---|---|
| C | Canon: Durûm_Wiki.md, the Language Reference, or the canon record |
| A | Admitted: a Part 8 candidate root, admitted with the Expansion of 2026-10-11 |
| N | New: coined in the Expansion, the Gazetteer (2026-10-11) or later (2026-10-12) |
Every headword has been checked against the five tests. The only failures are canon forms listed as such: Durn Gurihm and -ihm (canon-locked), Gulf (collapsed by design), Reks (open), Thungrolim (passes by its seams) and the English term toth-hungry.
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -a | suffix | fading aspect: happening now, will pass | dur-a, speaks | C |
| -ak | suffix | ergative (the one who acts); agent noun | fused in lexicalised nouns (bromak, marak) | C |
| Akademi-khor | proper noun | the Academy (Eldrath) | 'the deep school', dressed loanword | C |
| an | numeral | one | C | |
| an-an | adverb | now and then, occasionally | one and one | N |
| An-thrî | proper noun | Ana | 'Ana-the-third'; respectful dressing (An alone collides with 'one') | C |
| ar | particle / verb | is, stands as (copula) | in prose it stands last and takes the caps: ar-a, ar-on, ar-ûr; prefixed form for sayings | C |
| Artek | proper noun | ARTEC | dressed: c to k | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bak | noun | back (of the body) | N | |
| bak-dek | verb | regret | to look back | N |
| bar | conjunction | but | N | |
| bas | noun | sulphur | N | |
| bek | noun | iron | bek-brom steel | N |
| bek-brom | noun | steel | forged iron | N |
| Bek-Mar | proper noun | the Iron Road (guild and road) | N | |
| Bek-Vor | proper noun | the Iron Mountains | translated | N |
| bel | numeral | five | fills the gap between kor (4) and haz (6) | N |
| bod | noun | year | N | |
| bol | noun | folk, a people | back-formed from the loan Tir-bol | N |
| bor | verb | dwell, live (somewhere) | N | |
| Bri | proper noun | Frya | dressed: f to b, y to i, final vowel dropped | N |
| brom | noun / proper noun | forge, fire; also a given name (the runesmith of Durn-Khazak) | one heavy root | C |
| bromak | noun | smith, one who forges | brom + -ak | C |
| Brom-Dâs | proper noun | the Scorched Throne | fire-seat | N |
| Brom-Gat | proper noun | the Embergate | fire-gate | N |
| brom-pul | noun | ash | fire-snow | N |
| Brom-Pul-Talak | proper noun | the Ash-Wardens | ash-watchers | N |
| brom-sam | noun | summer | forge-season | N |
| Brom-ûr | proper noun | honor-name of Brom, who swore the eternal cut | root + -ûr | C |
| brom-vor | noun | volcano | fire-height | N |
| brun | noun | throat; pass, narrow way | A |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| da | deictic | this | da-or here; da-eth hence | N |
| dab | noun | ale | dabun brewer; dab-durn tavern | N |
| dabun | noun | brewer | dab + -un | N |
| dak | adjective / noun | fast, quick; speed | N | |
| dam | noun | wall | plural da-dam | N |
| dam-hum | noun | bastion | wall-shoulder | N |
| dap | noun | cloth | N | |
| dâr | noun | god | long â: sacred | N |
| dâr-khaz | noun | altar | god-stone | N |
| dâr-kuldun | noun | priest, god-speaker | dâr + kuldun | N |
| dâr-marun | noun | pilgrim, god-roader | dâr + marun | N |
| dâs | noun | seat, throne | N | |
| dek | verb | see | dek-um sighting | N |
| dem | verb / noun | rule, command, judge | demun commander; tob-dem clan-court | N |
| Dem-Tal | proper noun | the Kingsguard | ruler's watch | N |
| demun | noun | commander, ruler, prince | dem + -un | N |
| dob | noun | cairn | N | |
| dok | numeral | two | C | |
| dok-dur | noun | accord, treaty | a paired cut: two parties carve one record | N |
| dok-gor | numeral | twenty-four | two dozen | C |
| dok-thri | idiom | a few | two-three | N |
| dol | noun | rain | N | |
| dom | noun / proper noun | anvil; also Amboss (fortress) | translated | N |
| Dotnar | proper noun | the Jötnar | dressed | N |
| Dotun-Hal | proper noun | Jötunhall | dressed: j to d, ö to o, -ll cut to -l | N |
| du | pronoun | you (heard-stem) | C | |
| Dudi | loanword | Judy | j to d | C |
| Du-durn | proper noun | the Dwarven Empire | the Halls; du-durn-ul imperial | N |
| du-grun | pronoun | you (formal): you, on whom I stand | owed a guest or elder | C |
| dûm | noun / adjective | weight; heavy | the weight a thing has (compare tharn, the load that is carried) | C |
| dun | noun | south | N | |
| Dun-Dem | proper noun | the Southern Command | N | |
| Dun-Tal | proper noun | the Southwatch | N | |
| dur | verb | cut, set, speak; record (in a ledger) | a ledger entry is a cut | C |
| dûr | noun | the Cut; a rite | deepened dur | C |
| durn | noun | hall, hewn city | C | |
| Durn-Brom | proper noun | Forge-Hall (example place name) | C | |
| Durn-Demun | title | the Hold-Castellan | N | |
| durn-gul | noun | a debtor-hall, a binder-family | durn + gul | C |
| Durn Gurihm | proper noun | the Hold in the Storm (capital of the Fürstentum Stormpeak) | durn + gur + archaic dative -ihm; human name Sturmheim; canon-locked, fails tests 4 and 5 | C |
| Durn-Kuldun | title | the Hold-Speaker | N | |
| durn-or | adverb | in the hall, inside | durn + -or | C |
| Durn-Talun | title | the Hold-Warden | N | |
| dur-takun | noun | reader, scholar | one who takes the cut | N |
| Durûm | proper noun | the Durûm language; the Cutting, language itself | long û: the carving that endures | C |
| durum | noun | a casual cut, a doodle | short u; the opposite of durûm | C |
| Durûmar | proper noun | the script, 'the cuttings-set' | one script for grocery lists and oaths alike | C |
| durun | noun | runer, carver of workings | dur + -un; thun-durun master-runer | N |
| dur-ûr na-zar | proverb | cannot be broken by force | 'the cut-eternal does not sunder' | C |
| dur-ûr-um | noun | a working | a thing cut forever | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ek | conjunction | and | joins the last item of a list: A, B ek C | N |
| Emberdep | proper noun | Emberdeep | dressed: ee to e | N |
| -eth | suffix | ablative: from, out of; by means of; than | khor-eth | C |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gad | noun / verb | fight, combat | gadun fighter, soldier | N |
| Gad-Demun | title | the Hold-Captain | N | |
| gadun | noun | fighter, soldier | gad + -un | N |
| gan | verb | go, walk | vor-gan climb | N |
| gat | noun | enclosure, pen, gate | mok-gat beast-pen, rim-gat cold-cellar, tak-gat trade-post | N |
| gat-dur | noun | seal-stroke | seal-cut | N |
| gel | noun | gold | N | |
| gor | numeral | twelve | C | |
| gor-gor | numeral | a gross, 144 | the trader's great count; idiomatically 'many' | C |
| gor-khor-gor | numeral | 20,736 | the fifth unit; for city populations | N |
| grol | root | (meaning unrecorded) | attested only inside Thungrolim; a lore gap, not patched | C |
| grun | noun / verb | ground, hold, foundation; steady | grun-a, grun-on, grun-ûr | C |
| Grunda | proper noun | a given name | grun + -a, 'the holding one' | C |
| grun-pil | noun | pillar | holding tower | N |
| grun-pul | noun | dust | ground-snow | N |
| gul | noun | death, debt, the owed; duty | a duty is a debt: thun gul | C |
| gul-bek | noun | grave-iron | death-iron | N |
| Gul'durak | proper noun | the Debt-Cutters (the binder-family of Malnaar's binding); called Fesselschmiede by humans | gul + dur + -ak; the apostrophe marks an elided seam | C |
| Gûldurn-ûr | proper noun | 'the Debt that Holds': Ana's sealed dragonsteel blade | deepened gûl + durn + -ûr; forged by the present Thûndurak-ûr in the cold forges of Emberdeep | C |
| Gulf | loanword | Wolf (contemptuous) | w to g; folk-read as gul-, death. Fails test 4 (-lf) by design | C |
| gul-gat | noun | grave | death-pen | N |
| gul-khor | noun | catacomb | death-deep | N |
| gulun | noun | a dead person | gu-gulun the dead | N |
| gul-ûr | noun | a binding; a debt sworn cut-eternal; a death-bound oath | the working itself | C |
| gur | noun | storm | pending root from Durn Gurihm | A |
| Gur-Khaz | proper noun | Sturmfels | storm + rock | N |
| gur-lum | noun | lightning | storm-light | N |
| gur-rim | noun | blizzard | storm-frost | N |
| Gur-Vor | proper noun | Stormpeak (the Fürstentum) | storm + height | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hab | verb | grow | hab-um growth, plants | N |
| hak | noun | weapon | lun-hak bow | N |
| hal | particle | about, roughly | precedes a number: hal gor | N |
| haz | numeral | six | C | |
| haz-an | numeral | seven | six-one | N |
| haz-bel | numeral | eleven | six-five | N |
| haz-dok | numeral | eight | six-two | N |
| haz-kor | numeral | ten | six-four | N |
| haz-thri | numeral | nine | six-three | N |
| hed | adjective | other | hed kham, something else | N |
| hen | verb | give | N | |
| hes | noun | west | N | |
| hîl | noun | spirit | N | |
| hob | noun | week | N | |
| hol | noun | troop, band, cohort | mar-hol caravan | N |
| hom | adjective | every, all, whole, full | N | |
| hul | noun | ring | gul-ûr hul oath-ring | N |
| hum | noun | shoulder (of a mountain or body) | N | |
| hûr | adjective | great, grand; more | X-eth hûr, more than X | N |
| hûr-mab | noun | feast | great eating | N |
| hûr-sam | noun | festival | great time | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ihm | suffix | archaic dative (founding era) | attested only in Durn Gurihm; fails test 4 by design of canon | C |
| -im | suffix | dative / allative: to, toward, for | durn-im | C |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ka | pronoun | I (speaker-stem) | C | |
| kab | noun | bone | N | |
| Ka-kat-ul Hol | proper noun | the Order of the Stair | the troop of the steps | N |
| kald | noun | gate-lintel; the stone set over a gate that carries the hall's name | CVCC with the permitted final -ld (decision D7) | N |
| Kald | proper noun | the last hereditary king of the Dwarven Empire, d. 1020 a.S. at Emberdeep's inner gate | one heavy root: 'gate-lintel' | N |
| ka-mar | pronoun | we (exclusive): we, not you | 'the speaker and the hands' | C |
| Karn-Vor | proper noun | the Karn-Vorr range | repaired: -rr is not permitted; name provisional | N |
| kat | noun | step; degree (of heat) | ka-kat steps, a stair | N |
| ka-toth | pronoun | I, hall-less | the broken self; a confession of exile | C |
| kel | noun | half | N | |
| Kel-Rim | proper noun | the Quel'Glacier | dressed: q to k; glacier translated | N |
| kelun | noun | halflings | the half-ones | N |
| kham | verb / question word | what; something; also: ask | indefinite: kham grun-a | C |
| khan | question word | who | C | |
| khar | noun | deep, weight; also: mine | kharak miner | C |
| kharak | noun | miner | khar + -ak | N |
| Khar-Dûm | proper noun | Deep of Weight (example place name) | C | |
| khaz | noun / verb | stone, endure | C | |
| khaz- | pronoun | we (inclusive): we, and you with us | 'the stone-many' | C |
| khazak | noun | dwarves, the enduring ones | C | |
| khaz-gat | noun | vault, bunker | stone-pen | N |
| Khaz-Kuld | proper noun | the Stonecouncil | stone-voice | N |
| Khaz-Kuldun | proper noun | Stoneculling (the capital) | the stone-speakers; seat of the Khaz-Kuld | N |
| khaz-tum | noun | keep, citadel | stone-middle | N |
| khor | noun | deep, under | khor-or under; sacred secondary sense deep-fire | C |
| khor-brun | noun | tunnel | deep-throat | N |
| khor-gor | numeral | a great-gross, 1,728 | 'the deep dozen' | C |
| Khor-Kuld | proper noun | the Deep-Council; also volcanic vent, fumarole | deep-voice; deep-breath | N |
| khor-marak | noun | engineer, sapper | deep-maker | N |
| khor-na | question word | where | 'at what deep?' | C |
| khun | question word | why; reason | khun-ul kuld, an explanation | C |
| kip | adjective | small, slight, thin | N | |
| kol | noun | coal | N | |
| kor | numeral | four | C | |
| Korithra | proper noun | Korithra | passes unchanged | N |
| kuld | noun | voice, breath | C | |
| kuld-gat | noun | lungs; vent | breath-pen | N |
| kuld-lum | noun | bioluminescence | breathing light | N |
| kuld-mel | noun | bell | voice-metal | N |
| kuld-on | phrase | thanks | 'voice given and sealed' | C |
| Kuld-Tak-Khaz | proper noun | the Listening Stone | voice-taking stone | N |
| kuldun | noun | speaker, singer | kuld + -un | C |
| kumb | noun / proper noun | Hammer (fortress) | -mb is a permitted final | N |
| kup | noun | ladle | N | |
| kur | adjective | short, brief | N | |
| kurak | noun | humans | the brief ones, against khazak, the enduring ones | N |
| kurn | noun | grain | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lag | noun | hook | N | |
| lam | verb | sleep | N | |
| Lamun | proper noun | the Sleeper | the one who sleeps | N |
| lap | verb | heal | lapun healer; lap-um medicine | N |
| lapun | noun | healer; (with rel-) surgeon | N | |
| lem | verb | teach; learn (without an agent) | N | |
| lik | noun | body, corpse | N | |
| lis | noun | glass | N | |
| lob | verb / noun | oil | N | |
| lod | noun | vein, lode | N | |
| lom | noun | sky; blue | N | |
| lom-brom | noun | sun | sky-fire | N |
| lum | noun | light; white | N | |
| lumak | noun | elves | the light ones | N |
| lum-gat | noun | lantern | light-pen | N |
| lum-nob | noun | star | light-seed | N |
| lun | verb | bend, refract | N | |
| lun-gat | noun | archway | bent gate | N |
| lus | adjective | empty | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mab | verb | eat | N | |
| mar | noun / verb | hand, make; a turn of the road; a person (counted) | gor mar, twelve people | C |
| marak | noun | worker, maker; civilian | in a garrison text, everyone who is not a soldier | C |
| Mar-Dem | proper noun | the Roads Division | road-rule | N |
| mar-hol | noun | caravan | road-troop | N |
| mar-tob | noun | guild | hand-clan | N |
| marum | noun | tool, made thing | mar + -um | N |
| marun | noun | traveller, roader | mar + -un | N |
| mek | noun | edge, border | N | |
| Mek-Brun | proper noun | the Grenzpass | border + pass | N |
| mel | noun | metal | N | |
| mer | adjective | green | N | |
| mithril | noun | mithril | passes unchanged | N |
| mok | noun | beast, animal | N | |
| mok-pab | noun | leather | beast-armour | N |
| mol | noun / verb | rot, decay | N | |
| mol-sam | noun | autumn | rot-season | N |
| mor | adjective | dark, cooled, banked | A | |
| Moradin | proper noun | Moradin | passes unchanged | N |
| mos | noun | moss | N | |
| mud | adjective | slow | N | |
| mun | noun / verb | memory; mana; also: remember | mana is memory; na-mun-a forget | N |
| munak | noun | mage | one who acts with mana | N |
| mun-dur-um | noun | enchantment | mana-cutting | N |
| mun-kuld | noun | spell (spoken, fading working) | outsiders' magic is spoken, dwarven magic is cut | N |
| mun-lod | noun | ley line | mana-vein | N |
| mûr | noun | land, realm | hûr-mûr continent; hom-mûr world | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -na | particle | open seam: question; with a clause, 'if'; after a statement, 'perhaps' | clause-final | C |
| na- | prefix | not (on the verb) | C | |
| na-dur-ûr | verb | to forswear eternally | the strongest denial the language holds | C |
| nag | noun | sickness | tel-nag fever | N |
| nal | noun | pine | N | |
| nâm | noun | name | A | |
| Nâm-Durn | proper noun | the Naming-House | N | |
| Nâm-ul Ka-kat | proper noun | the Stair of Names | N | |
| ne | particle | not (outside the verb); not X, rather | verbs keep na- | C |
| nek | verb | hide; secret | nek-on-um hidden | N |
| nem | adjective | near, close | N | |
| nob | noun / verb | seed; to seed | kip nob spore | N |
| Nom | noun | gnome | dressed: gn- is not a permitted onset | N |
| nul | noun | night | ral nul, the long night | N |
| nus | noun / verb | smell | N | |
| nus-mok | noun | hound | smell-beast | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -on | suffix | sealed aspect: done, fixed, cannot be unmade | dur-on, has carved | C |
| -or | suffix | locative: in, at, within | durn-or, inside | C |
| ot | conjunction | or | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pab | noun | armour | N | |
| pak | particle | still, yet | N | |
| pal | noun | plain, flat land | rim-pal tundra | N |
| pam | adjective | fine, costly | N | |
| pas | verb | allow, permit | N | |
| pek | noun | east | N | |
| pem | noun | hour | N | |
| Penik | loanword | Phoenix | f to p | C |
| pes | adjective | dry, arid | N | |
| pil | noun | tower | N | |
| pir | verb | flee | pirun fugitive | N |
| pirun | noun | fugitive | pir + -un | N |
| pod | noun | swamp, mire | N | |
| Pod-Tal | proper noun | the Imperial Swamp-Survey | swamp-watch | N |
| pom | noun | store, stock | pom-durn storehouse | N |
| pul | noun | snow | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rag | adjective | hungry | rag dob, a cursed cairn | N |
| rak | noun | ditch | N | |
| -rakh | suffix | the people of (demonym) | decision D2 | A |
| ral | adjective | long | N | |
| rek | verb | come, arrive | na-rek- keep away from | N |
| Reks | loanword | Rex | fails test 4 (-ks); open | C |
| rel | noun | blade, sword | N | |
| rem | noun | day | rem-ul thun dawn; rem-ul tek dusk | N |
| rim | noun / adjective | frost, cold | N | |
| rim-khaz | noun | ice; glacier | frost-stone | N |
| rim-lum | noun | aurora | frost-light | N |
| rim-pal | noun | tundra | frost-plain | N |
| rim-sam | noun | winter | frost-season | N |
| rim-zar-sam | noun | spring | frost-breaking season | N |
| rod | noun | cart, wagon | N | |
| rok | noun | foot (body; measure) | N | |
| rop | verb | throw | N | |
| ropun | noun | thrower; (with khaz-) artillery | rop + -un | N |
| rud | adjective | straight, direct; true, good | to cut true is to cut straight | N |
| rûk | noun | wyrm, dragon | long û: the wyrms are old | N |
| Rûk-Gad | proper noun | the Wyrm Wars | N | |
| Rûk-Khaz | proper noun | Draconium | wyrm-stone | N |
| rum | noun / verb | blood; bleed | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sal | adjective | new, young | N | |
| sam | noun | season, time | sam-ul seasonal | N |
| Sân | proper noun | Sa'ana | apostrophe struck, aa collapsed to long â | N |
| sap | verb | sweep | N | |
| sel | noun | month | N | |
| sem | noun | mist, fog | rim-sem ice-fog | N |
| sib | noun | generation | N | |
| sil | noun | silver | repairs Khaz-Silv | N |
| Silbak | proper noun | Silberbach | dressed | N |
| Silbaruk | proper noun | Silberbrook | dressed: rbr opened to rab, oo to u | N |
| sok | verb | track, seek | N | |
| sokun | noun | tracker, ranger | sok + -un | N |
| sol | particle | only, alone | N | |
| sul | noun | water | sul-mar river; sul-thun spring (water-origin) | N |
| sus | noun | wind | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tâb | noun | granite; old hard stone | long â: load-bearing stone | N |
| tak | verb | take, receive | tak-hen trade (take-give) | N |
| tak-pal | noun | market | trade-plain | N |
| Tak-Sus | proper noun | the Tradewind Dominion | trade + wind | N |
| takun | noun | taker; (with toth-) salvager, scavenger | tak + -un | N |
| tal | verb / noun | watch, guard | talak watchers; tal-kuld scouting report | N |
| talak | noun | watchers; garrison troops | tal + -ak | N |
| Tal-Demun | title | the Station-Captain | N | |
| tal-durn | noun | garrison, watch-hall | N | |
| talun | noun | warden | tal + -un | N |
| tam | particle | also, too | N | |
| târ | noun | tree, wood, timber | tâ-târ forest | N |
| tek | noun | end | N | |
| tel | adjective / noun | warm, heat | N | |
| tem | verb | cross, pass over | N | |
| temun | noun | crosser, one passing through | tem + -un | N |
| tharn | noun | burden; a load that is carried | CVCC with the permitted final -rn; against dûm, the weight a thing simply has, tharn is the weight someone bears | N |
| Tharn | proper noun | the given name of the First of the Stonecouncil; humans say Thrain Ironfist | one heavy root | N |
| Tharn-ûr | proper noun | 'the burden, carried forever': Tharn's oath-name, sworn on his election as First in 1020 a.S. | root + -ûr | N |
| thri | numeral | three | thrî in ritual | C |
| thrî | numeral | three (sacred) | the oath-number | C |
| thun | adjective / noun | old, first, elder; origin | C | |
| thûn | adjective | holy | deepened thun | N |
| Thun-Demun | title | Thane-Captain | elder-commander | N |
| Thûndurak-ûr | proper noun | 'the Elder Cutter': honour-name of the hidden Gul'durak line, first borne by the ninth, uncounted heir and by every head of the line since | thûn + dur + -ak + -ûr; echoes Gul'durak (decision D6) | C |
| thun durn | noun phrase | capital | first hall | N |
| thûn-gat | noun | shrine | holy pen | N |
| Thungrolim | proper noun | a given name | thun + grol + -im; passes by its seams | C |
| Tir-bol | proper noun | the Tierfolk | dressed: ie to i, f to b, -lk cut to -l; neutral regard | N |
| tob | noun | clan, kin-group | N | |
| tor | noun | north | tor-or in the north | N |
| tork | adjective / noun | cruel; cruelty | uses the final -rk | N |
| tos | noun | poison | N | |
| toth | adjective | dead, inert | C | |
| toth-hungry | term | a sealed working with no debtor | seal intact, debtor gone; Durûm form: rag dur-ûr-um | C |
| Tudral | proper noun | Tundral | ndr struck to dr | N |
| tûl | noun | hearth | long û: the hearth is sacred | N |
| Tûl-Kuldun | title | the Hearth-Speaker | N | |
| tum | noun | middle; between | X ek Y-ul tum-or, between X and Y | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| udul | noun | heart that does not stop; utter core | decision D1 | A |
| -ul | suffix | genitive: of, belonging to; as a pronoun anchor, intimate address | du-khazak-ul | C |
| -um | suffix | result noun; passive participle; verbal noun | abstracted from durûm | C |
| -un | suffix | agent noun; active participle | lexicalised nouns fuse; participles in a phrase hyphenate | C |
| -ûr | suffix | cut-eternal aspect; the oath aspect | the grammatical seat of dwarven magic | C |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vel | verb | measure | N | |
| vel-un | noun | measurer, surveyor | N | |
| ven | pronoun | he, she, it, they | C | |
| virk | adjective | live, working (of a carving) | D3: repaired from wirk | C |
| vor | noun | reach, height; above | grun-ul vor-or above ground | A |
| vor-gat | noun | crater, caldera | height-pen | N |
| Vor-Rek | proper noun | the Ascension | the coming to the height | N |
| vor-tek | noun | summit | height-end | N |
| Durûm | Class | Meaning | Build, note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zakh | noun | demon | abstracted from the demonic layer Ghurrzakh | N |
| Zakh-Mûr | proper noun | the Demon Realm | N | |
| zam | noun | gem | N | |
| zar | verb / noun | break, sunder; breach | C | |
| Zargûl | proper noun | Zargûl (Demon Realm hold) | passes unchanged | N |
| Zar-Khaz | proper noun | the Sundering-Stone | N | |
| zek | adjective / noun | odd, crooked; anomaly | N | |
| zor | adjective | red | N | |
| zor-mel | noun | bronze | red metal | N |
| zul | verb | melt | zul-brom smelter | N |