Elephants and hamsters

Matt Pearson wrote:
>         Tebobjeeta        kuumajalaatem da  putaakatem
>         3p-Prog-eat.lunch elephant-Nom  and hamster-Nom
>         "The elephants and hamsters are eating lunch"
>
How odd! I have "dragon" and "guinea pig" in ea-luna, but not "elephant"
or "hamster"... Well, I just really like this sentence. It's got to be
right up there with "I think I bought a pregnant mouse."

As of this moment, new ea-luna words:
tawe  hamster
tede  gerbil
nate  sugar glider
kedu elephant
kedugei  rat (an elephant mouse. <G>)

So, ANYWAY...

rekeue limi ea-kedule ua ea-tawele.
lunch now the elephants and the hamsters. :)

There is no progressive in ea-luna, so I made it clear that the lunch
was currently taking place.  And the plural marker -le is optional, but
I decided that the listener was probably unaware that there was more
than one elephant/hamster. It is just as likely that one zookeeper would
turn to her colleague and say "rekeue ea-kedu ua ea-tawe."

Mia, Lilia-li-dina (Lilia is the only child I have with a name that fits
ea-luna-li-diwe phonology.)