Isian speakers have homes, too, and they’ve got no end of stuff in them. So let’s take a look at what they have.
First, as industrialization has come to their lands in modern times, the speakers have begun to adapt to the more typical division of rooms, or hiri. Their names are almost always simple compounds, usually of hir following a word that describes the activity for that room. (This seems to indicate an earlier period where houses weren’t commonly partitioned.) We’ve got the main ubahir, a kind of living room; more accurately, it would be a “sitting room”. Then, there are the twin pirihir “kitchen” and hamahir “dining room”, literally the “cooking room” and “eating room”. Washing is done in the bathroom or hishir (from hishi + hir), and sleeping is for the domhir “bedroom”.
Inside some of these rooms, you may find objects like a chair (ubadom, literally a “sitting bed”, which may indicate that Isian speakers once preferred a reclining posture for relaxation). We eat at the mico “table”, but some tables might be reserved for other uses, like the “writing table” rodomico: a desk.
The kitchen has pots and pans, fani and sicani, and no dining room is complete without a number of dishes or peyt. Of course, with those you’ll have the Western trio of tud “fork”, hasha “knife”, and muta “spoon”, and there may be a ticking decos “clock” on the wall.
These, and the extended list below, are only some of the things you might find around the Isian house. They’re a start, not the whole.
Word List
Areas
- room: hir
- bedroom: domhir
- bathroom: hishir
- kitchen: pirihir
- dining room: hamahir
- living room: ubahir
Tools
- blade: farit
- brush: fosh
- clock: decos
- fork: tud
- hammer: aplar
- key: kef
- knife: hasha
- lamp: olu
- lock: ikin
- spoon: muta(s)
Furniture
- basket: halban
- bathtub: hishido
- bed: dom
- bottle: odas
- bowl: uch
- box: garon
- chair: ubadom
- cup: deta(s)
- desk: rodomico
- dish: pey
- pan: sican
- pot: fan
- sack: hukho
- sink: shosuch
- table: mico