Re: CHAT: TRANS: something slightly more deep (was: TRANS: flutes)

yl-ruil wrote:
> And God said "Let there be light"
Ku fasagátas tiDikáu "Tisafáil pizikaffá"
Ku  fa-saga'-tas   ti-Dika'u "Ti-safa'i-l                 pi-zikaffa'"
And past-say-3SRat G1-God     Opt/Imp-come.into.existence G8-light

Pizikaffá means light in the abstract, an actual light itself is waziká.

Took me a while to figure this out, since there's no verb for "to be",
but then I remembered safái.  Among the Kassí, the Deity is considered
female, hence the use of the female gender, ti-

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