Aiki-ken - sword

Arigato gozaimashita - thank you (past tense)

Arigato gozaimasu - thank you (present tense)

Ayumi-ashi irimi - striding irimi

Bokken - wooden sword

Dojo - martial art practice area

Funakogi undô - boat rowing exercise

Furutama undô - breathing exercise

Gokyô - fifth basic pin

Hanmi - basic triangular stance

Hanmi-handachi - attacker (uke) standing, defender (nage) sitting

Henka-waza - turning one technique into another

Happô - eight directions

Happô-giri - eight directional cutting

Happô-undô - eight directional exercise

Ikkyô - first basic pin

Ikkyô-undô - basic exercise

Irimi - entering principle

Irimi-nage - basic throw

Jô - short staff

Jô-tori - unarmed defense against a jô

Kaeshi - reversal or counter

Kaeshi-waza - counter techniques

Kaiten - roll, spin

Kaiten-nage - basic throw

Kata - shoulder

Kata-tori - shoulder grab

Kata-tori men-uchi - shoulder grab and strike to head

Katate-tori - one-handed grab to wrist

Ki - universal life force

Kiza - mobile seated position (on your toes with knees on the ground)

Kôhô kaiten - backward roll

Kokyû - breath, breathing

Kokyû-hô - breathing and centering technique

Kokyû-nage - breath throw

Kote - back of the hand

Kote-gaeshi - basic throw

Koshi-nage - hip throw

Kubi - neck, head

Kubi-nage - head throw

Mawari - rotation, surroundings

Musubi - binding, continuous contact

Nage - defender (applies aikido technique)

Nikyô - second basic pin

Omote - front

Onegai shimasu - if you please

Randori - freestyle

Rei - bow

Ryôte-tori - grabbing both wrists

Sankyo - third basic pin

Seika-tanden - center of the body

Seiza - formal seated position, kneeling

Shihô - four directions

Shihô-nage - basic throw

Shômen-uchi - strike to front of head

Suwaru - to sit

Suwari-waza - seated techniques

Tachi - live sword, standing

Tachi-tori - defense against a sword

Tachi-waza - standing technique

Tantô - short knife

Tenchi-nage - standing throw

Tenkai - 180 degree pivot in place

Tenkan - 180 degree pivot with tenshin (a step back from one hanmi into its opposite), circular principle

Tekubi - wrist

Tenshin - a step back from one hanmi into its opposite

Tsugi-ashi irmi - sliding irmi

Tsuki - punch or thrust

Uchi - inner

Uke - attacker (receiver of the aikido technique)

Ukemi - receiving with the body

Ushiro - behind

Ushiro kubi-jime - choke hold from behind

Ushiro ryôkata-tori - shoulders grabbed from rear

Ushiro ryôte-tori - wrists grabbed from rear

Ushiro ryôtekubi-tori - same as ushiro ryote-tori

Waza - technique

Yoko - side

Yokomen - side of head

Yokomen-uchi - strike to side of head

Yonkyô - fourth basic pin

Zenpô-kaiten - forward roll