Re: Translation Project! (was Re: Let the hammer fall!)

The Telek rendition of "Let the hammer fall."


Mawkanitoo nadkarokol nulistaj.
mawkani-too nat-karo-k-ol nulis-taj
allow-IMP INST-hit-NOMIN-NOM fall.down-DS
"Let the hammer fall."


Notes:

-too: imperative/hortative marker.

nat-: instrumental marker indicating the action of the verb is carried out
by a complex tool. (A hammer is complex because two pieces had to be joined
together. A club is an example of a simple tool). It becomes nad- due to a
phonological rule.

-k: nominalizer

-ol: nominative case marker

taj: subordinating different-subject switch-reference marker



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