Re: Trans: Shoeflower Nose Man

> "if I see the man who walked on my flowers, I'm gonna make him eat
> his dirty shoes through his nose!" :))

Hmm...*thinks* I can almost do this with Silindion, i just lack words for dirty, shoes, and
nose. :(

This is what it is at the moment (with tentative words for the ones i'm not sure of yet)

Yansë tilisi i-nan të yuhwaskë emë noláñavihya, tamë ilpessesïo hyaldi
rontóissinya ono nunornanya.

/`janse tI`li:s.i i`na:n te ju`Waske`Eme no`lanjavIhja `tame IlpE`sE:s.io `hjaldi
ron`tojsInja `ono nu`nornanja/


I don't really like interlinears, so i'm going to explain each word.

yanse "if" (kind of easy, and I know that it's related to the root YAT 'to become'
in some way, but I don't have my notes here with me)

tilisi "I see"   TIL-i-si  "see-subj/pres-1sts"

i-nan "the man"  i-NA-n "def.-man-acc."

te "the one" (a necessary part of the relative pronoun)

yuhwaske "who walked"  yo-a-faska-i  "rel-past-WALK-past"

eme "on"

nolanyavihya "on my flowers"
FLOWERS-plural-loc-1stsposs.
(the nom. s. is nolna 'flower')

tame "then"

ilpessesio "I (will) make him eat"
il-pess-e-si-o   caus.-EAT-fut/pres.-1sts-him

(il- the causative prefix is a derivational not an inflectional morpheme. Almost
all inflectional morphemes are suffixes)

hyaldi "dirty"

rontoissinya "his shoes"
rontoisse-i-n-nya   SHOE-plural-acc-3rds.poss.
(another plural of this word is rontoisse)

ono "through"

nunornanya "his nose"
The accusative singular of  nuro "nose"

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