Vori language

The Vori language was unusual in that it used a high number of synonyms and metaphors for everyday words and had a military syntax. In addition, it seems to lack words of use for an extended family, instead using combinations of immediate family terms. 

Known words and phrases

 * Backwalk = back off / retreat ("it is sharper to backwalk")
 * Beast = the face of the enemy
 * 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")
 * Colors = markings / uniform
 * Coverings = clothes ("they were his coverings")
 * Crave = want ("do you crave any more?")
 * Daughter's daughter = granddaughter
 * 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
 * Foot-falls = paces, a measure of distance
 * 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 before = in the past
 * In the now = in the present
 * In the soon-after = in the future
 * Mother's father = grandfather
 * Nemesis = enemy
 * New-light = dawn
 * Nullify, nully = to kill / to be killed ("they were nullified")
 * Plantings = crops / harvest ("they took our plantings")
 * 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")
 * 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 as to not go to the Way-after
 * Way-after = afterlife ("he's passed to the way-after")