Re: Deep Water: Re- Conlanging

> Language is a ford through the river of time
> It leads us to the dwelling of the ancestors
> But he does not arrive there
> Who is afraid of deep water
And here it is in Rinya:


      Rinya naeg in rymum besenya.
      Um mhythi iðin in rawðenya ðeich itirenya.
      Ti deg ci ghoeruwu le,
      hyem yagen rimando taninando.


rinya        naeg     in  rym  -um  bes -enya
language:ABS ford.ABS DEF water-INS time-DAT
'Language is a ford through the water of time'

um      mhyth-i   ið -in  in  rawð    -enya deich     itir  -enya
2PL:ABS lead -PRS 3SG-ERG DEF dwelling-DAT  father:PL before-DAT
'It leads us to the fathers of before'

ti  deg   ci  ghoer-u  -wu le
but there NEG come -FUT-AP 3IMP:ABS
'But he will not come there'

hyem    yagen  rim  -ando tanin-ando
REL:ABS afraid water-ABL  deep -ABL
'who is afraid of deep water'

AP = Antipassive
REL = Relative particle
3IMP = 3p impersonal pronoun
ABL = Ablative

I use the antipassive in the third line to change the argument
of 'come' into the absolutive, because 'come' usually takes an
ergative subject, but 'afraid' has to have a head in the absolutive.

Daniel Andreasson
http://conlang.nu
daniel@conlang.nu