Re: "To Be" In Silindion, Observations

Further clearing up Silindion's existential and essive
verbs for everyone and especially Jörg Rhiemeier


> > 2) The essive is used when the predicate noun is
> the
> > only element present. That is, when the sentence
> is of
> > the form "It = Y" or (colloquially) "He = Y"
> >
> >   example: id voronye enkëari ihwilda!
> >          "Behold, the victors of the war are
> coming!"
> >        id     voron-ya-i      enke-ari i-fil-da
> >        behold victor-pl.-ess. war-gen.
> conj.-come-ger.
> > (literally: "Behold, it is the victors of the war
> > coming")
> >
> > The form of the essive is "-i" attached to a noun.
Notice that the noun with the essive "-i" is definite.
The essive is most usually used with definite nouns.
(The "behold" particle kind of makes the phrase
definite as well as the genitive "of the war"). If the
existential verb were used:

id më voronya enkëari ihwilda
"Behold, there are victors of war coming"

the meaning of the sentence changes somewhat.

 Contrast:  "Behold, the victors of the war are
coming" (with essive)
   (literally of course: behold, it is victors of war
    coming")

 with:  "Behold, there are victors of war coming"
 (with existential)

maybe that helps to clear it up also.

~ Elliott.







		
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