Re: Tuusha poem in Early Lahabic

> From: Anthony M. Miles
>
> >    From: Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
> >
> >Here is a little poem in Tuusha:
> >
> >faaahm baxrn t'uu*o
> >t'iim gaarn f'iiix*o
> >t'iiixm saaahr ' t'iiixm lir
> >
> >* is a labial click.  ' is a glotal stop.
> >
> >wind black hill-over
> >sand brown beach-over
> >rising of-tide, rising of-sun.
> >
> >The wind over the black hills,
> >The sand over the brown beach.
> >The rising of the tide, the rising of the sun.
>
> Early Lahabic (with minor aesthetic modifications)
> hiyiddepadalei heud ghwireddeuouimme
> go-air-nomsg   above black-hill-locpl
> maratalei heud dhebdemaratouomme
> sand-nomsg above brown-sand-areal-locpl
> aiyikalei gwaindebhelauouombwos
> up-go-nomsg water-place-areal-genpl/du
> laniyikalei ko'kwu'rgwos
> down-go-nomsg sun/torturer-gendu
> The wind over the black hills
> The sand over the brown beaches
> The rising of the tides
> The setting of the suns
> Note: the world of the Dhabra has two suns which descend into the
> world-sphere in the morning and ascend at night.

Here it is in amman iar:

The wind over the black hills,
The sand over the brown beach.
The rising of the tide, the rising of the sun.

i fadh ir emoinniar demor onta
ir asthar i gilmadorriar debaran onta
i thildsir i ronvar, i anor i ronvar

Interlinear:

\t i   fadh ir  emoinniar        demor        onta
\m i   fadh i   amon -i   -iar   de-    mor   ont  -da
\g the wind the hill -plu -at    color- black over -spatial
\p det n    det n    -num -adess adj-   n     pp   -loc
\x the wind the hills            black        over

\t ir  asthar          i   gilmadorriar      debaran
\m i   asta   =dar     i   cilma dor  -iar   de-    baran
\g the powder =general the edge  land -at    color- brown
\p det n      =nsfx    det n     n    -adess adj-   n
\x the sand            the beach             brown

\t onta
\m ont  -da
\g over -spatial
\p pp   -loc
\x over

\t i   thildsir    i   ronvar,          i   anor i
\m i   thilda sir  i   ronno =var       i   anor i
\g the period flow the rise  =actn/proc the sun  the
\p det n      n    det v     =nsfx      det n    det
\x the tide        the rising           the sun  the

\t ronvar
\m ronno =var
\g rise  =actn/proc
\p v     =nsfx
\x rising

David
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