Re: translation exercise

Omeina:

Ome anolde da, dirun olmoa romen na
"Aligora ilda dilde, menko astuan malimedunaro"
O omede na "Menku sindunaro, o arinku orire oria maraitoin.
Eleta ilda na, o astuita malin on na."

1st line comments:
speak / man-dative / I,  watch-rel / gates-locative year-genitive / is
diru = to watch over, guard. The -n is the relative suffix "who watches
over". Roma means 'year' in the sense of 'the cycling year'
2nd line comments:
give- polite imperative / light / to-me, go-causative / safely /
know-not-ness - allative
astuan: the -an is an adverbial suffix, though these (as in English) are
tending to disappear.
3rd line comments:
and / speak-back / he / go-imperative / darkness-allative, and /
put-imperative / hand-your / hand-locative / god-genitive
maraito (Lit. great father) = god
4th line comments:
better (than) / light / (it) is, and / safer (than) / familiar / road / is.
eleta is the comparative degree of el = good. Omeina has seven degrees of
comparison of adjectives, not including however the equative degree (as good
as...) which is realised by an essive case construction.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Translation Exercise


> Alun' adáshavs n'Mau Rauser...
> Replying to Mau Rauser...
>
> ENGLISH SOURCE (Gate of the Year)
> ==============
> I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, "Give me a light that
I
> may tread safely into the unknown."  And he replied, "Go out into the
> darkness,
> and put your hand into the Hand of God.  That shall be better than light,
and
> safer than a known way.
>
>
> ASHA'ILLE TRANSLATION (Gedunath Giráet)
> =====================
> Shavpi ne carnen e'ung pas pemav vae'gedunath giráet kae, ssha cha'arevli
ne
> orona vep'che cáspievi alunsa v'lenalen vel'kre llath kepká'sshak.
> T'adáshavpar ssha cha'monv vel'seiro t'cha enjelavadet ne lorán'carn.
> Jhor'net
> alunsa giréjh t'orona rojh, t'jhor net alunsa gir'safe t'llath lo'iyl
ká'sshak.
>
>
> INTERLINEARIZATION
> ==================
> Shavpi ne carnen e'ung pas pemav vae'gedunath giráet kae,
> shav  -p- -i ne   carnen egikathung pas pemav vae-   geduna -th giráet kae
> speak PST 1S OBJ: man    IO:        PST stand WHERE: year   ADJ gate
:WHERE
>
> ssha cha'arevli ne orona vep'che cáspievi alunsa
> ssha   cha- arev -l- -i ne   orona vep-    che- cáspiev -i  alun -sa
> QUOTE: IMP  give DO  1S OBJ: light REASON: may  explore 1S  PREV 1
>
> v'lenalen vel'kre llath kepká'sshak.
> ve   lenalen vel-    kre  llath kep     ká'sshak
> ADV: safe    TOWARD: NEG: known :REASON :QUOTE
>
> T'adáshavpar ssha cha'monv vel'seiro
> te  adáshav -p- -ar ssha   cha- monv vel-    seiro
> and reply   PST 3SM QUOTE: IMP  go   TOWARD: black
>
> t'cha enjelavadet ne lorán'carn.
> te  cha- enjelav -ad -et ne   lorán'carn
> and IMP  entrust RCP 2S  OBJ: God
>
> Jhor'giréjh net t'orona rojh,
> jhor-  giréjh net  te  orona rojh
> EQUIV: better that and light :EQUIV
>
> t'jhor gir'safe net t'llath lo'iyl ká'sshak.
> te  jhor-  gir- lenalen net  te  llath lo'iyl ká'sshak
> and EQUIV: more safe    that and known way    :QUOTE
>
>
> ABBREVIATIONS
> =============
> PST past tense
> IMP imperative
> RCP reciprocal/reflexive
> 1S first person singular
> 2S second person singular general
> 3SM third person singular masculine
> ADV adverb
> OBJ object
> DO direct object
> IO indirect object
> NEG negation
> QUOTE direct quote
> PREV # adjectival phrase describing word # words previous
>
>
> EXPRESSIONS
> ===========
> English:    "X is Y"
> Asha'ille:  "Jhor'X t'Y"
>
> English:    "X is better than Y"
> Asha'ille:  "Jhor'giréjh X t'Y"
>
> English:    "X is more ADJ than Y"
> Asha'ille:  "Jhor'gir ADJ X t'Y"
>
>
> NEW VOCABULARY
> ==============
> adáshav (v)  to reply
> enjelav (v)  to entrust
> giráet (n)  gate
> giréjh (adj)  better
> lenalen (adj)  safe
> llath (adj)  known
> lo'iyl (n)  way
> orona (n)  light
> pemav (v)  to stand
> ssha ká'sshak (?)  quote unquote
>
>
> --
> AA