Re: Elasin Babel Text verses 2 & 3

Thank you for the reply, first of all.

Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>Do you have an overview of the grammar somewhere?
> The above is a bit hard to read and it would be
>very nice to see some summarising tables
>or the like before digging through that. :-)
I apologize for the format of the post. I don't have a
grammatical sketch online yet, but I'm putting the
final touches on something basic (to be added to
later). Would you have any suggestions on a good
_free_ site for posting such info?

>>Verse 3. Vasyenet ti fana avu sathitudison
muswarnoram
>> i kathudison pivani i ti. Sathityene avu moswanorsa
>> hau kivashersa le i ratemsa hau molesa le i.
>Why is that 'muswarnoram'?  Where's the first -r-
from?  You list the basic form is 'muswano'.  And is
'moswanorsa' related?  I suppose so,
but how?

Muswano is the "root" word meaning "brick, man-made
building material." Muswanor is the plural
(muswano-r), muswanorsa (muswano-r-sa) is an
instrumental case in the plural, translated here as
"bricks-wise, with bricks." As in they built - how? -
with bricks. Same way with kivashersa (kivashe-r-sa)
"stones-wise, with stones."


	
		
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