Re: Vocab #5

   1. coffee / bitter drink / culturally distinctive drink
       I used to drink coffee.
Medhu (honey and spices in wine), not coffee.
Im taiv peler medhu.

   2. tea / herbal tea
        I drank the tea in one gulp.
tharek (related to theneg "herb, leaf"; earlier derivation; medical)
Im peler a tharek fam sem kelfu. I drank the tea using one mouthful.

   3. steep / brew
       She used to steep the tea for 10 minutes, but she steeped this cup
for only 7 minutes.
galsei
Seon taiv galsan tharek fam dekem lakani, bid seon galsalge fe falmen fam
sol selpa lakani.

   4. pastry / biscuits / cookies
       She had pastry with her coffee once.
       She had pastry with her coffee every day.
mailes (honey bread)
Gimides seon hedalge mailes sa medhu. (Gimides = yesterday)
Nethu seon taiv hedan mailen sa medhu. (Nethu = daily)

   5. milk
       She doesn't take milk in her tea.
galik
Seon nai pelan galik len medhu. (That doesn't make sense. The milk would
ruin the taste of the medhu.)

   6. bitter
       The coffee was very bitter today.
       The coffee was bitter every day.
tamra
Aheru medhu osalge ein tamra.
Nethu medhu osan tamra.

   7. sweet
       He likes his tea too strong and too sweet for us.
midh
Suon binosan meimidh medhu inason. (He is pleased by most sweet medhu
us-gen.)

   8. wired / the feeling obtained after drinking 43 cups of coffee
       That guy is wired! He drinks too much coffee.
miken (the absolute opposite of kamhel "tired")
Vo lir asag miken! Suon pelan ein mein medhu. (No caffeine in medhu. It
would make one tired sooner than awake.)

   9. mellow / calm / soothing (of music)
        The music they play is too mellow for my taste.
dalba
Suveik sarila asag wai dalba imon. (Their music is too mellow I-gen.)

   10. street vendor / coffee house / tea bar / the culturally
appropriate
place to buy a cup of tea or coffee
        That street vendor always had the best tea, but then his wife
left him.
salento (innkeeper; inns are social gathering places as well as places to
stay)
Vo salento taiv kardan meiset medhu gith suok venat eksal gulmalge.

"Always (past)" is represented with the perfect aspect of the aorist
except for the copula, which has developed a past aorist form. It's still
not a patch on bod, but it will be eventually.
"Hour" would be one sixth of a watch; a watch is one sixth of a day. A
minute is one sixtieth of an hour. It's based on the Sumerian system,
only more so. Therefore, I should have adjusted the times in #3, but I
was too lazy.

So you know, Christian Thalmann, I wrote this before looking at your
post. (BTW, are you a feminine person or a masculine person?)

Just glad that there are no Sam's or Pat's,
Chris Wright

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