Re: describing names

> 1. Her name is Mary
> 2. Her name is beautiful
>
> The first sentence tells me her name, while the second
> only describes it. But the only difference is the last
> word. There is no way to be sure that she isn't called
> Beautiful, except that is an unusual name. How do
> other languages solve this problem?
First of all, in Tirelat the word for "beautiful" is a verb. Stative
verbs like "beautiful" typically come first in the clause. So the
distinction goes something like this

je -rhadeky jtúlhan Meri
her-name    is      Mary

jzhemilhin se  je -rhadeky
beautiful  NOM her-name

But {rhadeky}, the word for name, is actually derived from the verb
{rhade}, "to call, to name". So a more idiomatic way to say "Her name is
Mary" is:

t  -rhade ni  mii mi  Meri
one-calls DAT her ACC Mary