Weekly Vocab 8, Minyeva (1-5)

Minyeva doesn't have a conculture, being a lablang and not an artlang. Thus,
certain items translate more directly into Minyeva into the more cultured
conlangs.

> 1. kilogram (appropriate unit of weight or mass for you and your
> conculture)
neku'joke = kilogram
joke = thousand
neku = gram

pole    le u   neku'joke o  flesa.
require I  FOC kilogram  of flour.
> I need a kilogram of flour.
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> 2. bread
pijo = bread

meba     fe u   pijo  lo   le mavi mone  i   maji   o  le.
used.for it FOC bread that I  must serve PAT cousin of me.
> It's for the bread that I must serve to my cousin.
i have a verb for "to be for": meba

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> 3. fever
pige = to have a fever

what can i say, i'm fond of verbs over phrases :~)

pige       va.
have.fever he.
> He has a fever.
>
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> 4. delirious
kive'nevu = to be delirious (temporarily insane)
nevu = temporary
kive = be insane

fe         kive'nevu i   va,
it [makes] delirious PAT him,

cla vamo'gapi    u   lo   sema le u   pabjo.
and hallucinates FOC that be   I  FOC monster.

> He is delirious with it, hallucinating that I am a (conculturally
> appropriate monster).
vamo'gapi = hallucinate
vamo = to see
gapi = false, wrong

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> 5. medicine
kuja = medicine

pole    ti'biko te  u   kuja     nadi      ki.
require illness-the FOC medicine expensive some.
> The illness requires expensive medicine.
i used the same word "pole" to translate 'requires' here, and 'need' in
number 1.

> ~Wright
>
--
Garrett Jones
http://www.alkaline.org

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