Re: Weekly vocab #3

1. Dohtaside na.
('doctor' - female suffix - my) (Aux.3ps)
Note: No word for "doctor" so a word from English will have to be used,
"dohta": h after a back vowel represents the /x/ sound.

2. A otekude na, i ríen na
(that-there) (healthy - thing for - my) (Aux.3ps), (this-here) (of-you)
(Aux.3ps)

3. Bereti labalea na.
(look at, investigate) (ear-their-locative case) (Aux. 3ps)
Notes:
1) -eti gives a more active sense to a verb.
2) laba 'ear' normally appears in the dual, labadia, though here the sense
is 'several individual ears', so the singular is used.

4. Bereti dinne na.
(look at, see above) (eye - her) (Aux.3ps)
Notes:
1) Here again the sense is single eyes, so the dual is not used. Dil+ne
assimilates to dinne.
2) If she was looking in her own eye, the reflexive morpheme would be used -
Beretikse dinne na.
3) This could also mean 's/he looked in his/her eye, but context normally
makes things clear. If not, the female suffix -si could be added to the 3ps
form.

5. Otemeina eremá.
(health - opposite - abstract) (friend - our - locative)
Notes:
1) Literally, this is 'unwellness is on our friends'. With this type of
construction, the auxiliary is often omitted.
2) Omeina does not have plural nouns. The suffix -eta is used for a
collected group of something.

6. I-sahtine gereta a-sahtine na.
(this one - scratch - his) (bad - comparative degree) (that one - scratch -
his) (Aux.3ps)
Notes:
1) The particles i and a ('this one' and 'that one') are, as in English,
stressed.
2) -h after back vowels represents the sound /x/.

7. Anga beidare noi?
(pain) (head - your - locative) (Aux 3ps - interr.)
Notes:
1) Like English, Omeina does not mark plural in the second person.

8. Etome otetuaksekin gana.
('diagnose') (healthy - to become - reflexive - durative - relative) (Aux
'may' 3ps.)
Notes: Lovely! This one really shows how numerous verbal suffixes combined
with auxiliaries can convey subtle shades of meaning.
1) Et+ome (before (of time) + to speak)
2) The thrust here is that basically, the restoration to health is done by
herself, but happens over time. The relative marker -n (always word-final)
is invisible as the durative marker -kin also ends in n.
3) Ga- is another auxiliary meaning "May".

9. Etomekse nan oteduna nil.
(Diagnoses - reflexive) (there is - relative) (a cure) (to/for him)
Notes:
1) When the auxiliary appears as the only verb together with the relative,
its position is in front of the dependent clause, as in English.)
2. 'To have' is translated as 'to be' + the appropiate personal form of the
dative case. The full form nilde is here shortened to nil in word-final
position. The reflexive suffix -kse can also be added to the subject and
object markers of auxiliaries as well as the conjugated forms: so nildekse
would mean 'for him himself, for his very self'.

9a. Erde ostua gana.
(friend - my) (to cure) (Aux [may] 3ps)
Notes:
1) There are two terms for 'to cure': Ostua is 'to cure a disease' and
Beskua is 'to heal a wound or cut'
2) Omeina has no simple future, and uses the Auxiliary ga- as in (8).

10. Otemeina aida.
(unwellness) (past, over - 1ps)
Notes:
1) Ai is normally used to create a perfective aspect, but here it is used
rather more idiomatically: "I am over my illness".
Mike.