Re: Hail Mary

On 11/28/05, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> Perhaps those who are Catholic would like to translate the "Hail
> Mary" into their conlang, if it has not already been done on the
I did the Hail Mary into gjâ-zym-byn a few years
ago, but wasn't really satisfied with the result.  I'll try again here.

I'll use the ASCII orthography since I don't have a good
Latin-1 orthography and Unicode doesn't seem to carry through
well here.

http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/phonology.htm


mirijam-ram hoq, jqax-da    nxiqn-i tq miq-i; tq i  tyn-van       panx.
Mary-NAME   VOC  grace-FULL CMT-at  2  TOP-at 2  at place-V.STATE lord

max-sxy       muw-i     fxurnx-box  nxiqn-i tq miq-i, kinq
person-female subset-at blessed-ADJ CMT-at  2  TOP-at and

fxurnx-box  nxiqn-i  tq i-m        sxaxm liqw-i      bjynq-toxn-ga
blessed-ADJ CMT-at  2   in-part.of womb  relation-at grapefruit-GNR-METAPH[1]

sqej       jesxua-ram miq-i.
or.name[2] Jesus-NAME TOP-at


mirijam-ram pix'hax-box hoq, txeq'ku liqw-i      kyn-sxaxm   jax-i,
Mary-NAME   holy-ADJ    VOC  God     relation-at parent-womb role-at

kq-tq-pq tu-zqaxj-dox            renx txiq-o  lax-zox       mwe,
1-2-3    AGT-moral.law-violation many help-to request-V.ACT IMP

nu     koq  i  pe  kq-tq-pq sxu-i      geq'diqm-zla
moment DEM1 at and 1-2-3    quality-at day-whole.set[3]

sq-i-m            hyr-sun    i.
after-at-part.of  hour-final at


Notes:

[1] Here is an instance of one of those idiomatic compounds we were
just talking about a few days ago.  The suffix "-toxn" derives
a more general word from a specific one, and "-ga" marks a word
as being used metaphorically; "-ga" can be used ad-hoc, but some
"-ga" compounds are standard and defined in the lexicon.

[2] "sqej" is a conjunction that separates two names or appellations
for the same entity; in some contexts it would be glossed as
"also known as".

[3] "geq'diqm-zla" might be considered an idiomatic compound, too; but
"-zla" derives a word meaning the whole set of X, and "geq'diqm"
(/g@.dIm/) is a sleep/wake cycle day, not a sidereal day, so it seems
like a fairly perspicuous compound for "life" or "lifespan".

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/esp.htm
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