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Re: Weekly vocab #3

From:Dan Jones <dan@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 1:43
Aidan Grey escreva:
>Brought to you by D (for doctor) and possessive pronouns. > >Vocab: > > 1. doctor / healer
Aredos: caeletor "doctor/healer"
> 2. medicine
caelátás "the science of medicine" caelura "tonic, medical substance"
> 3. ear
aus
> 4. eye
ocuos
> 5. friend
caros, cara
> 6. itch and/or scratch
déhére "to feel an itch" gredura "an itch" carsáre "to scratch"
> 7. hurt / pain (the verb ... or not)
clécére "to ache" clécéscere "to hurt" clécom "pain"
> 8. diagnosis
ariandíre "to diagnose" ariandás "disgnosis"
> 9. cure / heal
caeláre
> 10. ill
ancaelos
> Context: > > 1. She is my doctor.
caelátria mehe est. doctor-fem me-dat be-pres.ind.3s Aredos doesn't really use gender-specific pronouns in the third person. The gender is implied by context.
> 2. _That_ is _my_ medicine, and _this_ is yours.
caelurace mea est, at illace túa est medicine-DET my-fem.nom be-pres.ind.3s, and_yet that-fem-DET thy-fem.nom be-pres.ind.3s
> 3. She looked in their ears.
aurans illorom dedercat ear-acc.pl that-gen.pl look-perf.ind.3s
> 4. She looked in (or tested, or..) her (someone else's) eye.
ocuom illí dedercat eye-acc.s that-gen.s look-perf.ind.3s
> 5. Our friends are ill.
carí nostrí ancaelí sonte. friend-nom.pl our-nom.pl ill-nom.pl be-pres.ind.3p
> 6. His scratch (the one on him) is worse than his scratch (the one he >caused on someone else unspecified).
Don't get this one.
> 7. Do y'all's heads hurt? / Do you guys have headaches?
capúvos clécént? head-pl.abl hurt-pres.3p (lit. Do you hurt because of the heads?)
> 8. His diagnosis (that he gave) is that she will get better.
ariandate dátá, caelescietor. diagnosis-abl given-fem.abl, heal-causative.pres.opt.mediopassive.3s (lit. The diagnosis having been given, she should start to heal herself.)_
> 9a. She will cure my friends.
carons meons caelevat. -friend-acc.pl my-acc.pl cure-future.ind.1s
> 10. I am not ill anymore.
ancaelos ne seme plús -ill NEG be-pres.ind.1s more Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ semo la flamma, semo la casea semo la tuta, semo la cambea We are the spark, we are the flame We are the people, we are the change