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Re: Weekly Vocab 8

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Monday, May 19, 2003, 14:12
WHEEEEEE!!!  Looks like I'll be first on this one!


--- Christopher Wright <faceloran@...> wrote:
> 1. kilogram (appropriate unit of weight or mass for > you and your > conculture)
LIVRA
> I need a kilogram of flour.
Juna livra farina fereu.
> > 2. bread
PANI
> It's for the bread that I must serve to my cousin.
Pera il pani fi jid ad ul mi cuchinu nexidu apuniri.
> > 3. fever
FEVRI
> He has a fever.
Jun fevrozu esti.
> > 4. delirious
FRINDIGU
> He is delirious with it, hallucinating that I am a > (conculturally > appropriate monster).
Cu fisti jun frindigu esti. Pomu si seri juni djin~i tres-agan~udi aluchinadad.
> > 5. medicine
AXIRI
> The illness requires expensive medicine.
Ul maul fistu juni axiri mutu caru nexidad.
> > 6. witch / quack / healer / shaman
AJURAN~A
> The witch says that her cure only requires a few > yams.
Al ajuran~a fi ul ti remidju sodandu pocus n~amis nexidad.
> > 7. useless
INUDILU
> I thought, if her cure turns out to be useless, I > can still order the > doctor's medicine.
Mi mindi, si ulti remidju inudilu avenia, veu il axiri djul medigu veu podeu combrari.
> > 8. poultice
PUASTRU
> The witch concocted a simple poultice of yams.
Junu puastru simpuexu djils n~amis al ajuran~a jan fachi.
> > 9. to assure
CHERRARI
> S/he assured me that it couldn't fail no matter > what.
Fi jid cunsini nu podeud defichiri mi cherrud.
> > 10. to work, succeed
SUCHEDARI
> I am certain it would have worked if she had told me > to put it on my > cousin's chest rather than eating it! > (That is to say, I ate it since it was made of > yams.)
Si mi eseud dichidu, inul pepu djul mi cuchinu puneu, nun mandeu, fi eseud suchedudu ju cheru sumu. (Pazi, pervia fued djils n~amis jid mandi.) Adam
> > > ~Wright