Re: (CHAT) Re: weekly vocab

Roger Mills wrote:
> There's an old story, of the teacher who told her class to write a story
> including religion, the nobility, motherhood, and mystery.  One student
> wrote:  "My god, the duchess is pregnant, and no-one knows by whom."
Well, I could translate that, but it wouldn't be as funny to the Kassi.
They have no social or legal concept of fatherhood.  For that matter, I
haven't worked out noble ranks and the like, but I'll use _noblewoman_
(tisafinisni "Highborn")

Ilai!  Launitassi tisafinisni uadazlasuv, ku piasitassi fil nlannani!
Ilai!  Launi -tas   -ki       ti-safi-nisni ua-dazlasu  -v   ku
Stars! Be.loc-he/she-NonPunct G1-birth-high G6-pregnancy-loc and

piasi-tas   -ki       fil n-lannani
know -he/she-NonPunct not G2-father

"Stars!  The noblewoman is pregnant and the father is not known!"

Of course, the Kassi would ask "Why should he be?"  :-)

Incidentally, the word _uadazlasu_ "pregnancy" originally meant
"blessing", the related verb _dazlasfli_ still means "to bless"

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