Re: TRANS: a haiku

FFlores wrote:
>     If everything's green
>     and sun falls and there's wind
>     I am here at home
Might as well try:

Visamazázzaki pigallá
Ku vinaiyakwínni wafkadífi ku viklaílki wanafakíl
Uslauníuki pisaníkwakuv
(9-18-10)

The second line is longer than an entire haiku!

That's a literal translation, breakdown:
Vi-sa-mazáz-za-ki       pi-gallá
If-be-green-it-nonpunct G7-all

Ku  vi-nai-yakwín-ni waf-kadíf-i  ku  vi-klái-l-ki        wa-nafakíl
And if-will-set-they G6.pl-sun-pl and if-live-it-nonpunct G6-wind
I assumed that "sun falls" means "sun sets"; "live" is also used as an
existential verb, "if wind is living" = "if there is wind [at the
moment]"

Us-launí-u-ki         pi-saní-kwaku-v
Then-be.at-I-nonpunct G7-home-my-loc

Keeping the syllable-count:

Samazáznaki
Yakwínnaki wakadí
Launíuki bliv

[sa.mA'zaz.na.Ci
ja.'kwen.na.Ci wA.kA'di
lAw'ni.u.Ci blev]

Lit:

They are green [right now]
The sun is setting
I am here

Sa-mazáz-na-ki
Be-green-they-nonpunct

Yakwín-na-ki    wa-kadí
Set-it-nonpunct G6-sun
(Incidentally, yakwín is related to yawín, "to die")

Launí-u-ki       bli-v
Be.at-I-nonpunct here-loc

I'm rather surprised that I could make a haiku in Watakassí!  Of course,
I had to butcher it a bit, I didn't say *what* was green.  :-)  And I
had to cut out the bit about wind, plus saying *where* the poet was.

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