TRANS: I to my perils

One of my favourite poems (others include Steve Rasnic Tem's "Skin,"
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Kim Seowol's "Chindallae" and "Dulce et
decorum est pro patria mori" by that WWI soldier-poet who *wasn't* Sassoon
or Ruper Brooke and whose name eludes me), by A.E. Housman:

I to my perils
   of cheat and charmer
   came clad in armor
by stars benign.
Hope lies to mortals
   and most believe her,
   but man's deceiver
was never mine.

(There's a second stanza, but I'll translate that next time...)

In manglish Tasratal, this becomes:

mion-xi ilaxar-bu nia-ge ikiuten-to ikio-kyx-ci
[mionSi alatsarPu niaNe ikiutento ikioki"StSi]

nia nia-san-xi cimal-xi exla-asram-xi ytasu-ge aroc-kyx-tau
[nia niasanSi tSimalSi eSla:sramSi i"tasuNe arotSki"Stau]

roxe-rei-xi asram-san-xi yfesrac-aq asram-ru-bu yfesrac-ge
akunxe-kyx-rei-aq
[roSereiSi asramsanSi i"pfesratSax asramruPu i"pfesratSNe akunSeki"Sreiax]

asram-ta-al-xi cimal-asram nia-al-ro-roq
[asramta:lSi tSimalasram nia:lrorox]

Interlinear:

mion-xi                ilazar-bu nia-ge          ikiuten.to
benign.bearing-quality star.some I.action-toward armor.action-with

ikio-kyx-ci
cloth.cause-intended.nonrequisite

nia nia-san-xi                  cimal-xi              exla-asram-xi
I   I.ownership.bearing-quality cheat.bearing-quality
charm.person.bearing-quality

ytasu-ge             aroc-kyx-tau
danger.action-toward travel.cause-intended.event-settled

roxe-rei-xi                             asram-san-xi
death.event-in-progress.bearing-quality person.ownership.bearing-quality

yfesrac-aq asram-ru-bu      yfesrac-ge         akunxe-kyx-rei-aq
hope.but   person.more.some hope.action-toward belief.cause-
intended.event-in
                                                -progress.but

asram-ta-al-xi                             cimal-asram   nia-al-ro-roq
person.all-share-of-status.bearing-quality deceit.person I.share-of-status
                                                          .less.none

Notes:
Stress in a word-traffic-jam occurs on the final syllable of the nucleus?
word (the first one *before* all the particles start piling up).  I find
myself pronouncing the stressed syllables with a higher pitch instead of
louder volume, but it could go either way.  :-)  I'm not fussy.

Substantives (or content words) can actually be used as particles (which
is why the above stress rule is useful in speech).  This occurs a couple
times in this translation:

exla-asram-xi
charm.person.bearing-quality

<asram>'s triad of meanings runs like this:
ilasram [ilasram]: adolescent, initiate
ylasram [i"lasram]: child, novice
alasram [alasram]: adult, expert

I've chosen to use the "general" term, <asram>, since it isn't clear to me
that the "charmer" (in "to my perils of cheat and charmer") is necessarily
a beginner or expert or whatever.

Also, I do have a (previously somewhat existent) conculture I might just
give this language to ^_^ and they're starfarers, so the whole poem--since
I chose to translate "stars" literally instead of with some sort of Deity
or Great Force of the Universe--could take on a different cast, with the
"armor" being literal (neutronium from the heart of a white dwarf?).  ^_^

ilazar [ilatsar]: star
ylazar [i"latsar]: ?  (Any suggestions?  It should be an "uncertain" sense.
)
alazar [alatsar]: light

A related triad of fleeting interest:
ilamar: fire
ylamar: temperature
alamar: warmth, heat

When I get the basic webpage for this done (I should be able to do it this
weekend if all goes well, plus a .gif for the alphabet) I might see about
a sound sample with my godawful pronunciation...

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

cevan-ge aferun-mas-kyx, yferun-co-roq.
"To find happiness, one should not seek it."