vrindo (was "Re: CHAT Re: Can't stop agulunating, HELP!")
From: | Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 8:28 |
> What other cool words have you noted from other people's conlangs?
> I seem to remember "vrindo" from I've forgotten whom. It sounds VERY
> Teonaht, which is why I noted it.
That would be me :)
It means, more or less, "to travel, to go, to journey"; it's appeared twice
on this list -- it's also in that poem I wrote a few months ago in
California:
...
* V=EBano s=EFrvo seld=EBahy=EBr=E4n, v=EBanen tana'vrindor?
Kalden=EF! =CBven=EF! Tarvene h=EBven=EF!
Nandarim ayarin fellanad bindor.
...
Translation (very approximately):
"Whence sails this ghost fleet? Whither must it away?
To mountains! To seas! To desert lands!
Never-ending is its vital errand, amid the winds of the world."
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
Re. the translation relay: Carlos, if you can get your version to me by Fri=
day
night (your time) I'll get it on Saturday morning and send off an Arov=EB=
n
translation to Fabian. Otherwise I'll get it on Monday as I'm otherwise =
not
here on weekends. I'll be signing off shortly after that, and will be ba=
ck
by late October after my exams (final exams are taken *after* summer
"vacation" over here, just to make sure the student doesn't forget anythi=
ng
during the break, such as the fact that he/she is meant to be a full-time
slave to schoolwork... :-P )
=20
Josh
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