Re: Translation Challenge: Foucault's Pendulum
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 30, 2006, 8:35 |
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Here's a version of it in Arithide (an SOV language):
Sit a Findor eg tygna hyrin hē.
Sit meos a koerarin attalas i ikānaba massim fihar ibat pleido,
valehyrnhisyns hōragie ibat ultifūrde taduri.
Keii - sina sinon tumen them a sit elemim sikopos in namei o kaumebali
- i tadurhyrnos a fiharin massyns torininos ibat, sinam gaetandonēs i
dussilseresina laetorim silsos eg epte pan bale rorerin dolsteima nam
graessteima eg sarafe holos ita Kirkylos. Hokō hokei byldei meos a
tyra spar ou oldastim steimēs nepyn in verkorim telskopos ibat
manereste: pleidegm in veriros, sallen versteimēs in verdesos,
Kirkylos in heveilyne daktos, ninos in ourim nostdaedim dithael, nam
ke ror in dosrelhola ryrngvenos.
Sines keii, i tandorin faut ibat konere derfrasae etanos a meyns akis
um kīti rostanos i kromos eg makraro, tirade honos eg entigare. Ok
etanos a, Findor in dīmotos eg avkonobagno, sempē kanevtos eg ereke:
verkansas um, fuisestos nam episulos ibat oitagev stantinie
konderebalev fihar ibat pleide tumen an ou oldos an tadurai van.
Vocabulary
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isochronal - valehyrnhisyns: vale- (equal) + hyrin (time) + his (line)
+ -yns (abstractive nominaliser, genitive case)
period - tadurhyrnos: tadurei (to sway) + hyrin + -os (abstractive
nominaliser nominative case)
square root - torininos: tori- (square, connective case), ninos
(source; from <nin>, "root")
circumference - dolsteima: dol (around) + steima (mesurement)
diameter - graessteima: graet (across) + steima
pi - Kirkylos: Kirki (mathematician's name) + holos (number)
singularity - veriros: ver- (intensive pref.) + ir (1) + -os
duality - verdesos: des (2)
triadic - heveilyne: hevei (3, dative case) + lynei (to link, to be related)
quadratic - nostdaedim: nost (4) + daedos (side) + -im (adjectival suffix)
unnumbered - dosrelhola: dos- (un-) + relei (to replace) + holos
as with many other conlangs, magnet - derfrasa: derei (to pull) + frasa (iron)
cylinder - rostanos: ror (circle) + tan (tube) + sandhi (r + t > st)