Re: Translation exercise: "Thousand tongues" poem
| From: | John Leland <leland@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 7, 2003, 17:49 |
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In Rihana-ye:
Fufewa-le feka seba-fe
Alltime-through you (adult f) me (adult m)-with
Fivaroha-fe-ye fimyha-me feka-ye sevaroha
Language-s-of 729-in you-of name
NOTES: tongues in the physical sense would be divaroja-fe; 1000 becomes
729 because Rihana-ye conculture uses a base nine system for religious
reasons.
Fufe *kuhlodiha-fe-me
All kindly-hear-small-thing-s-in
Fufe *fekihla-fe-me
All withkindsound-s-in
Fufe *kisla-fe-me
All kindsmell-s-in
alternatively *gisla-fe sweet smells)
Incidentally, this illustrates one problem with Rihana-ye, in that the
suffix -fe can mean "with" or it can be simply the plural.
John Leland