Re: A short poem in Lassaptakl

On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> This is from a collection of Ryokan's poetry.
>
> usiuut
> tupali ai ssuisli
> ai upumuut
> mum sassatiliit tlifuliit

dolie
bastyin so zylsin
brynie do
chanie jom reshenin talayna

dolie
city-loc-s

bastyin    so  zylsin
drum-nom-p and flute-nom-p

brynie         do
mountain-loc-s however

chanie jom   reshenin   ta.layna
only   there tree-gen-p DIM.speak-INF


I had to make "flute" and it brought, as usual, a number of other
words - from the stem _zyl_ "wind music, piping sound". Yes, it's
onomatopoeic.

All the other words I already had; I used "trees" for "pines" out of
laziness :-)

The construction of the last two verses is kind of new; I didn't know
that _jom_ would be needed but it put itself there and stubbornly
refused to budge, and I didn't realize that the infinitive could
stand as a verbal noun ("the whispering of the trees"). Valdyan
doesn't really have participles except in very stilted obsolete
language, and I wanted this to be poetic rather than formal).

   Irina

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