Re: Translation exercise: Li Bai's "Drinking alone under the moon"

andrew <hobbit@...> writes:

> > Poten lis la mouve yifiri
> > pot-en l-is la m-ouve yi-fir-i
> > drink-ACP COM-company no ESS-below GEN-moon-DEF
> > "drinking with no company at below-space of the moon"
> >
> Is the stem pot- a survival from the IE languages in Yivokuchi or is it
> a parallel development?
If you want to call a coincidence "parallel development"...
Yivokuchi is set sufficiently far away in time as to have
erased all traces of old IE roots, though there might be
some heavily mutated correspondences. I couldn't have
thought about IE |pot-| except for isolated terms like
|potable|. In any case, I had |paot| 'drink (n)' before
|pot| in Y. (and those come from Old Y. /pOt/ 'drink (v)',
with vowel lengthening for noun derivation).


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