Re: MeloChalaka

--- David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 9/22/01 9:40:24 PM,
> florarroz@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> << C = Cyclical aspect
> W = Waxing aspect, i.e. its getting more and more
> Com = completed aspect
> What is Cyclical aspect,
> and why "Waxing"?
>
> -David
ok, MeloChalaka has three cycle aspects - waxing,
waning and cyclical.  There is probably better
linguistic terminalogy out there for these aspects, I
don't know.  Anyway, here is their phonemic notation.

waxing    s-
waning    n-
cyclical  sny-

Waxing means that the action is getting bigger and
bigger, or more and more, i.e. growing in some manner.

Waning means the opposite of waxing, the action is
getting less and less, diminishing in some manner.

Cyclical means that the action is growing then
shrinking, getting greater, the lesser, starting, then
stopping.  Cyclical goes from waxing to waning and
back for an undertermined amount of times.

Thus, in the poem, the bird twitters and sings -
snyetwin a snyechlayn.  The prefix (sny) is cyclical,
giving the idea that the sounds are coming and going,
stopping and starting, well, you know how birds sing.

Now how this applies to verbs that incoporate the idea
of getting greater or less, I have still to figure
out.  Suggestions anyone?

Example:

ri = rise (like to get up from a chair)
then logically
siri would be a sort of emphasis on the rising action
BUT would snyiri (cyclical) mean getting up and down?
What about niri (waning)?  Getting up slowly?



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