Re: Seasons greetings

abrigon wrote:

> Hawaiian - Mele Kalikimaka
Ea-diwe don't celebrate Christmas. They celebrate the Winter
Solstice as "ea-benereta", lit. "The Sun-birth".

Traditional greetings for benereta are:
ma rewa ea-benereta! (Enjoy The Sunbirth!)
and
ma nege ia benereta! (Be happy at Sunbirth time!)

A more general greeting for any native holiday is "ma rewa
ea-tari", "enjoy the holiday".

Now, since ea-luna also has a second purpose as my personal
language, there is actually a way to say "Merry Christmas". It is
"merikaritimatu", in the mele kalikimaka-style. This is pure
gibberish in ea-luna... Since ea-luna is full of compound words
that LOOK something like that, I thought I'd break this down a
few different ways to see how a native speaker, upon first
encountering this out of context, might interpret it:
meri- noise
both ka and kari have no assigned meaning at this time.
riti- animal
matu - previous, prior
tima is unassigned
tu- navel

I can't think of the last time I ever used the word "merry"
outside of "Merry Christmas" or as the root of "merriment"...


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Mia Soderquist (tuozin@dmv.com)
ide bani ea-leli ene ua legi la, ua ide leri la dade lia
ea-ewiugutewi.
dike ida nuku ua kede.
(ma rage ea-luna!)