Re: i gots uh kwesteon
From: | Caleb Hines <cph9fa@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 7:01 |
> isk ekwih deriy dee kreetoll ops goethea omt dee eeth le dee
> marezhlitsvep
> isk bee'eenk enin dee hollm le tsvalhalmp ya unawba ekwih de grossagon
> omt ya anaya ekwih de grosfirntishtoo le dee etirnevp
>
> i is from the grey-island near goethia and the land of the horse-lords(.)
> i
> live in the city of tsvalholm(.) my father is a great-warrior and my
> mother is a great-tree-wizardessof the elves(.)
I don't really know any foreign languages, but I'll take a crack at this.:
|isk| cogn German "Ich"?
|omt| cogn "and"?
|le| related to French, Spanish, and Port. "de" (of)
|kree| is clearly related to "gray"
|toll| (island) from same root as "atoll"? This seems unusual though, since
atoll was apparently borrowed from Malayalam "atolu" (reef) in the 17th
century. Malayalam is spoken in southern India, and is in the Dravidian
family.
|anaya| (mother) cogn to Hungarian "anya"?
|gros| obviously cogn to German "gro