Re: TRANS: a haiku

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, FFlores wrote:

> I've decided to try my hand at haiku [snip]
>
A Doraja translation (using my tentative new verbal agreement
morphology) follows.  This is mostly a grammatical exercise rather than
a poetic one, since this doesn't have any particular meter or any other
interesting tricks.


        ele inaji ita inka gada
        en nosu olar en senu faril
        ui dae inai ke aran


Now I'll entertain you with interlinear stuff.

        ele  inaj-i ita in-ka    gada(1)
        when be-pl  all pl-thing green
        When all things are green,

        en  nos-u       olar en  sen-u        faril
        and fall-itr:sg sun  and exist-itr:sg wind
        and sun falls and there's wind

        ui   dae inai-0   ke aran
        then 1sg be-ss:sg at home
        then I'm at home.

(1) Doraja has two lexical entries for "green": _lir_ 'light green' and
_gada_ 'dark green.'  I've chosen the second here, since it seems to fit
the meaning slightly better.

Later,
Adam