Re: Small translation challenge

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 08:57 -0400, Larry Sulky wrote:

> "The boy whose mother my daughter was later to befriend became ill."
In Veldan, something like:

Eteinnsidzit i paidas san i:melwocho uilau^ me:na uia i ag ta:ssu
mata^ran.

E-teinnsi-dzi-t            i   paida-s    san
IMM.PAST-ill-become-3RD.SG the son-NOM.SG that/which/such-that

i:-melwo-ch-o                uilau^ me:na     uia
IMM.FUT-befriend-4TH.SG-PERF later  my-NOM.SG daughter-NOM.SG

i   ag    ta:-ssu         mata^ra-m.
the to/of he[3RD]-PREP.SG mother-ACC.SG.

...where : = long vowel, ^ = long vowel that attracts an "unusual"
stress accent, letters have generally Latin values


Cool challenge.... :)


Cian Ross
cian@cox-internet.com
http://crlh.tzo.org/~cian/conlang/

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