Re: Weekly Vocab again?

I've been experimenting with dialects. Eastern Kélen (EK) is mostly like
Standard Kélen (SK), but with a few syntactic, phonetic, and lexical changes
(so far).

il Sunday 30 March 2003 06:21 am, il temenne ke Christopher Wright ien:
> 1. to think   -sónn-
> I think about many things.
SK: pa lién jassónnien ná;
EK: ñalla jassónnien ná;
        jassónnien ná = N.Distributive + Quantifier 'various thoughts' + 'many of
them', thus emphasizing that the many various thoughts are disttributed among
subjects.
        In SK, pa is the whole/part relational, so PA 1ps 'many various thoughts' or
'I have many various thoughts.'
        In EK, ñalla is the causative relational NI + 1p.sg. agent or 'I make many
various thoughts.'

> 2. to plan            -tút-
> I plan to go to town today.
SK: jaliTa pa letúta ñi rá antóni;
EK: jaliTa an letúta ñeleñ rá antóni;
        jaliTa = 'today'; rá antóni = 'to town'
        letúta is an inherently possessed noun - 'my intention/plan'
        SK: today PA my-intention NI to town, where NI+rá means 'go to', thus 'Today,
my intention contains going to town.'
        EK: an is the present/progressive tense of LA 'be', and ñeleñ is the 1ps
reflexive form of NI, thus 'Today, my intention is making myself (go) to
town.'

> 3. road       -tón-/-Tíñ-
> I will go by the low road.
SK: réha ñi lién rá jatóna jatá nó;
EK: réha ñeleñ rá jaTíña jatá áñ;
        réha is a future aspect marker; NI + rá = 'go'
        rá jatóna jatá nó = to street/road low-one along &
        rá jaTíña jatá áñ = to path/road low-one among/on
        note that the -tón- in jatóna 'road' is the same as in antóni 'town' (>
'crossroads')
        SK: future NI 1p.sg to street low-one along = 'I will be going along the low
road.'
        EK: future NI+1p.sg.reflexive to path low-one on = 'I will (make myself) go
on the low path.'

> 4. cloak / coat / culturally acceptable heavy outer garment   -lúr-
> I took my warmest cloak.
SK: te jalúra-nle ñe jacálle ná níkanle;
EK: teleñ jalúra-nle ñe jacálle ná;
        jalúra-nle ñe jacálle ná = cloak-mine same warm-one more/most = 'my
warmer/est cloak'
        SK: LA+past 'my warmest cloak' together-with-1p = 'My warmest cloak was with
me.'
        EK: SE+past+1p.sg.reflexive 'my warmest cloak' = 'I took (for myself) my
warmest cloak.'

> 5. to stumble -táríñ-
> I stumbled on the road.
SK: tele jatáríñ rá jatóna nó;
EK: tele jatáríñ rá jaTíña áñ;
        jatáríñ = a little fall, a stumble (N.singular)
        SK: SE+past+1p.sg.goal 'stumble' 'along the street' or 'I was given a stumble
on the road'
        EK: same as above, but with "jaTíña áñ" for 'on the road'

> 6. wind       -úrán-
> The wind was fierce.
SK: tielen pa anúráni anrañáka;
EK: te anúráni anrañáki;
        SK: past-aspect PA winds(N.collective) fierce-ness(N.stative) = 'The winds
had fierceness.'
        EK: LA+past winds(N.collective) fierce-ones(N.collective) = 'The winds were
fierce.'

> 7. to snap    -taxét- (actually - 'hit, strike, tap...')
> It snapped my cloak.
SK/EK: te jataxéti mo jalúra-nle;
        SE+past hits/blows/taps/attacks(N.plural) beneficiary my-cloak.
        'It/they gave attacks to my cloak.' (assuming it/they = wind(s))
        Note that LA+past and SE+past have the same form. We can tell this "te" is
from SE because of the mo-phrase.

> 8. to freeze  -kecílr-
> My ears are freezing.
SK: pa lesári ankecílre;
EK: an lesári jakecílri;
        lesári = inherently possessed noun 'my ears'
        SK: PA my-ears frozen-ness(N.stative) 'My ears have frozenness.'
        EK: LA+present/progressive my-ears frozen-things(N.plural) 'My ears are
becoming frozen-things.'

> 9. ice        -élk-
> I think they have become ice.
SK: pa letóla ñi ja jélki órra;
EK: an letóla ñi ja jélki órra;
        letóla = inherently possessed noun 'my belief/thought'. Note that this is
different from the root -sónn- in sentence 1.
        SK: PA my-belief NI 3p-inan. pieces-of-ice completive-aspect = 'My belief
is/contains they have been made into ice.'
        EK: LA+present/progressive my-belief NI 3p-inan. pieces-of-ice
completive-aspect = 'My belief is/I am believing (that) they have been made
into ice.'

> 10. inn       -láseran- (the guild house for the Guesting/Hosting guild, a good
place for strangers to go for lodging/baths/sex/local info... or for locals
to go to for baths/sex/etc, sort of a cross between a hotel, a brothel, and a
bathhouse. Food is served, but it is handled by a different guild. The local
equivalents of the hairdresser and the tailor are usually also nearby.)
> I arrive at the inn half-dead.
SK: tielen ñi lién maráña sú jaláseran á manóña ámíwe;
EK: tielen ñalla anráña sú jaláseran á manóña ámíwe;
        sú jaláseran = at the inn
        á manóña ámíwe = an agentive phrase, renaming the agent for NI, where "á" is
the case marker, "manóña" is the animate noun 'dead person' (as opposed to
'corpse, body'), and "ámíwe" is a quantifier/qualifier meaning 'nearly,
almost'.
        SK: past-aspect NI 1p.sg. someone-arriving/arrived ... so 'I was made an
arriver at the inn as the almost dead.'
        EK: past-aspect NI+1p.sg.agent arrival ... , thus 'I made an arrival at the
inn as the almost dead.'

--
Sylvia Sotomayor
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