Re: TRANS: Red Flowers

yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> wrote:

>In the sea of life,
>We all swim.
>Our dreams are
>Like red flowers-
>They keep passing by.

In Draseléq (disregarding syllable count, sorry):

    Gades rrosür
    Nógosut onsiár.
    Qek sian beseth
    sqa qail sìnth --
    Qingentsel.


Interlinear:
AP = active participle
GEN = genitive
ITR = iterative
LOC = locative
PL = plural
PSS = possessive

    Gad.es   rros.ür
    life.GEN sea.LOC

    Nógo-s.ut on.siár.
    swim.1p+  all.1p+

As you see, D. has a particle <on-> (it can also be a suffix)
to emphasize totality in plural pronouns.

    Q.ek  sia.n   bes.eth
    be.3p 1p+.PSS dream.PL

    sqa  qai.l  sìn.th --
    like red.AP flower.PL

    Qin.gent-s.el.
    ITR.pass.AP

The iterative (which I used to call continuative, but yours is
a better name) means 'time after time', 'each time', etc. I haven't
used it much so far, so maybe there are other related usages; I've
found it in a book title, _Qimpoldan Tüumar_ 'Ever-quoted Poetry'
(an antology). [qim-pold- 'quote once and again and again, from the
same source'].


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  ... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
  has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
  bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
  not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
  of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
                   Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_