Re: Once upon a time
From: | Aidan Grey <frterminus@...> |
Date: | Monday, July 23, 2001, 21:58 |
--- James Campbell <james@...> wrote:
> A correspondent recently asked me how one would
> write 'Once upon a time...'
> in Jameld; as yet, I haven't settled on a suitable
> idiom.
>
> Are there equivalent expressions in your conlangs
> (or natlangs, e.g.
> Norwegian «Det var en gang» ['there was a time'])?
>
> Jamets the curious
In Aelya, the word is abhor /a:vor/. It derives from
ab vor and means, literally, beforever.
Aidan
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