Re: Weekly Vocab 9

Okay, I'll take the challenge!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Walker" <carrajena@...>

> Woah!! is this the ultra advanced version, or what?
> No, way Carrajena's ready for pittance or constance or
> culpable or . . . I may give some of the easier
> sentences a whirl.
>
> Adam
>
> --- Christopher Wright <faceloran@...> wrote:
> > 1. to bequeath
OB-ONDDRESAREM

> > My father bequeathed me an education.
Al pandrol, mendohtar tool    elo obonddresa.
My father,  education   for me did-he up-promise.

This was difficult, because "bequeath" is largely a legal term; I can't
remember how it's being used in Shakespeare, but my Teonivar has understood
it to be a sum of money that the father has willed the son FOR education.
I'm low on legal terms, so I had to sit around and think how you turn a
private promise into a legal one.  A private declaration into a public one,
and I decided to use the preposition "above" or "up" to do so.  ob, ov, uop,
uob can all be used this way.  So: jane, "speak," objjane, "describe,
declaim"; den, "tell," ovdden, "declare before witnesses," etc.  We'll see
what trouble that gets me into. :)

If "bequeathed" here simply means "gave," then it's just _elo vergo_.

> > 2. pittance
ANEKKYKO (a little bit)

> > He also left me a pittance: (insert proper sum in
> > proper currency/rodent
> > parts here).
Vulrrilbet       anekkyko euol    elo        uobvvergo.
Money-wise  a bit        to me did-he    legally give.

Actually, the difference between give and leave is the hard one in Teonaht.
I
have the word hteva, "leave behind," but it also means "abandon."  Amffen
also means to "put behind," "put after," but it also means "overlook."  You
have more than "pittance" in this new vocabulary batch, here! :)

> > 3. to usurp / steal / connive to get
WILTREKOREM (steal in a big way)

> > My brother usurped my estates.
Al froto       al   niriluahaftz
My brother my possessed lands.obj.

nihhovik-jo       elo      wilttreko
and houses.     did-he notoriously steal

Trekorem means to "steal," but add wil- to it and it's steal in "a big bad
way."  There is probably some compound with "away take" which could mean
"usurp," but this will do.  It was "estate" that was hard to come up with.
I have earth (takrem), I have country (hea), I have open land or plain
(rilua).  Estates can logically be land and house (and all that's in them).
Hence
the compound, niriluahaftz nihhovik-jo, "land-possessions and houses."

> > 4. stable
VIKOVYKWANT (outhouse for horses)

> > I am forced to sleep in the stable.
Celil vikovykwant hmery edrim.
In the stable          must-I sleep.

To express "force" more forcefully, you can say:

O:l celil    vikovykwant elon
Me  in the stable          did-one

o hmenol     edrimma.
forcefully     make-sleep.

> > 5. horse (or conculturally appropriate beast of
> > burden)
YKWA (L. equus)

> > He [my brother] values the horses more than me.
Kimr celil     ykwan maka lirin ol
Worth in the horses more than (in) me

nomlo                 pelma.
does he habitually perceive.

This was easy.


> > 6. worth
KIMR (as noun); ISELNANED (abide, endure, be worth something, matter);
KIMRIHS (adj.) valuable.

> > Technically, humans aren't worth anything, but a
> > horse is worth a good
> > deal.
Hdo li tsollai ueffendlin,  plebmystan
As the sun rises,           people

nomdwe iselna vera,          ma ykwa-liz,
they-habitually matter not, but a horse,

poy  kimrihs nomai.
very valuable is it.

"Technically" was difficult.  What does it even mean in English? as in this
sentence?  "Theoretically? In the abstract?"  "As the sun rises" in Teonaht
expresses gnomic wisdom.  As the sun rises, so does one get up, feed the
chickens, go to work, be worth something, die." Id est, common knowledge.

> > 7. to run away
ELWY TEO (same as in English), "away run."

> > Perhaps I'll run away with his prized stallion.
Tittalt, naril ykwavond kimrihs esry elwy teo.
Perhaps, upon his male-horse valuable will-I away run.

> > 8. courage
EMDO (vigor, gusto); ONTAM (stomach, belly)

> > I lack courage, though, or constance,
Constancy?

so I will
> > relinquish my plans.
Ma emdo ry vilccota, uabor-ro;
But vigor  I    lack,     perseverence-or,

omobba    al mehdom esry  amffen
so of-that  my plan      will-I abandon.

> > 9. to suffer
TAFWYRNED (to suffer pain non-volitionally; from tafwo, "pain," "injury"_

> > I shall continue to suffer under my brother's
> > culpable disinterest.
Evil         laherem            to dizror     alid froto
By the (willful) forgetting blame-able of-my brother

esry  uab tafwyr.
will-I keep suffering (volitionally)

> > 10. depressed
MERKWENUOREM (to become flattened, wilted, faded)

> > I'm so depressed.
Ry hdo merkkwenuo.
I    so   become flattened.


Not effortless at all!

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teoeng.html

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