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Re: Vocab #9

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, May 27, 2002, 15:51
> It's magically delicious!! (adjectives>adverbs and spiritual/magical
ideas)
> > More so than other topics I've presented, this exercise might require >significant tweaking on your part....
So much so, that like Muke, I'm going to post piecemeal. The problem is not the difficulty, but rather the many ramifications of Kash spiritual/religious life and ancient superstitions that this led me into; and I want to be sure I come up with the right words.
>
(In more formal use, all past tense forms could add -sa to the verbs)
> 1. bless : (vb). rungarona, caus. of karona 'holy'; 'blessing' akarona.
One can rungarona an object, but one _vele/kota akarona_ 'give/say blessing' to a person.
> She blessed me softly (i.e. in a soft voice).
yakromonje me yavele/yakota akaronani 3s-quiet/taciturn-of-voice 1s/dat. 3s-give/3s-say blessing-3s/poss.
> 2. curse > > We cursed them quickly because they wounded us. (interpreted more as
"we uttered curse-words" rather than "we formally cursed them") tikuluñ nile miraça ombi min irumine straightaway 3pl/dat we-curse its-reason 1pl/acc 3s-caus-wound (to formally curse might differ only with the object in the acc _nin_ , implying a change of state or physical affect, broadly speaking)
> > 6. rite / ritual / ceremony olama (interpreted here as a formal cursing
ritual)
> > She curses them every day.
lero-lero yarunjunra olama raça lirinin day-day 3s-caus-tell(=recite) ceremony curse with-respect-to-them
> > 9. amazing çaçapat < çapat 'surprised' > > Zaphod says that it is amazingly amazing!
kotani safot, çaçapat cakanava! word-of ..., amazing extraordinary (< nava 'far') More to come, though perhaps in a while; I'm going away for a week starting Tuesday (50th Old School reunion-- should be interesting/amusing/depressing?).