Re: Translation relay

Fascinating.  How ever did "king" get in there?

These are, btw, going to be on the web somewhere so I can look at them in
order?  My mind doesn't work well in this buckshot fashion.

Here's what I received from Steg:

Solg-a tza'jeighihl sudgub - la'glendm uzoi:
Sha'nguhraashm-a tzuh-a ta'driyou-a uhzoi-datangwe golyil-a
Vih~t - i silglil-a uzoi-peres sha'eleni-a
Akh zawa sha'jeighihl-tzat uhzoi-kheza~

and here's what I sent on to Nik, in Hatasoe, sans the smooth
translation, of course:


Oasue asea ranpeda oapante saliheo.
Guzo selopopoa pizue sazhe sasiuteadu
Oade asesuo selomeshapuea lelu lekare puane.
Simu ko selopazhebizha aseneo, ala?

The songs of a bird deal with great things.
The heron dips its clothing into the dew
And the lark worships the sky at twilight.
But who understands being a bird?

Sentence structure is strictly SVO.  Adjectives, prepositional phrases and
adverbs always follow the word(s) they describe.  Nouns in the construct
state are either in a genitive relationship to the previous noun, or
taking a pronominal suffix (a possessive suffix), or both.

ala     question particle.  "Hmm?"  Frequently untranslated.
asea    construct form of ase, "bird"
aseneo  from ase "bird" + nea "to be."  bird-being.  (note: not a word in
Hatasoe, this is coined by
the poet, a common and acceptable practice in Hatasoan poetry)
asesuo  "lark"  From asea+sua, "bird" of "song."
-du     3rd person singular animate pronominal suffix -- "his, her, its."
oa-     inanimate plural prefix
oade    "and"
guzo    "heron"
ko      interog.  "who"
lekare  "twilight," from lehe "light" + kara "last"
lelu    "during, at"
lo-     3rd person sing. inanimate object prefix
meshapuea  "to worship" from mesha "to love" + apueo "god"
pante   "act, deed"
pazhebizha "to understand" from pazhe "through" + bizha "to know"
peda    "to concern, to deal with," from pede, "about, concerning."
pizue   "into"
popoa   "to dip"
puane   "sky"
ran-    3rd person pl. inanimate subject prefix
saliheo         participle of salihea, "to be important, great"
sasiutea  construct form of sasiute, "clothes, robe."
sazhe   "dew"
se-     3rd person sing. animate subject prefix