Re: The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

On Aug 9, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Trebor Jung wrote:
> How would your conlang(s) translate this? The primary obstacle, to me,
> for
> translating of this sentence into Kosi is that I can't seem to figure
> out
> what 'by' means here...

Hmm...
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Something like...

kwened-a ooloi-dakihsht sha'gyomihl, uhzoi-jet ya'dahoudht-ad-a
tza'pyetm sud[[small]]m._

'the person who takes away a mountain, they begin by means of the
removal of small stones.'

It's instrumental, "by means of".  The 'carrying away' of small stones
is the manner in which 'the man' 'begins' removing the mountain.


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