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Re: war and death are in my hand

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Monday, June 11, 2001, 22:42
Tairezazh version:

"Teshar! Zreth tikreg speik Eli ai ta,
ne Blast ne Zdair ai at ment tai!"

Interlinear:

tesh -ar! zreth tikr-  -eg speik El     -i  ai ta
see  INF  from  sister *   dark  Hell** GEN is I

ne  blast ne  zdair ai at ment ta -i
and war   and death is in hand I  GEN

* _-Eg_ is a nominal ending roughly meaning "thing asociated with the
meaning of the stem". _Tikreg_ could hardly refer to sisterhood by blood,
but I don't think that's what's intended here.
** Not having any word for "Hell", I simply addapted the English word.

It may be noted that native speakers of Tairezazh would hardly personalize
"war". They like to think that war is something wholly under human control.
On the other hand, they're about as scared of death as we are, and they'd
happily personalize it.

                                                  Andreas

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>This makes for a nice translation exercise. > > "Behold! From Hell's dark sisterhood am I, > and War and Death are in my hand!" > >In Cein: > > "El! Na'en allo i osellidd forn o annfann, > a na od a galf sen i fa new." > >Interlinear: > > El! Na'en allo i osellidd forn o annfann > Lo! am:1SG from the sisterhood dark of Hell > 'Behold! I am from the dark sisterhood of Hell' > > a na od a galf sen i fa new. > and are war and death in the hand of-me > 'and war and death are in my hand!' > >I had to create a word for "sisterhood, not of blood", for >which I used the word for "sister" _osell_ and added the >abstract nominal suffix _-idd_ --> _osellidd_. > >The word for "sisterhood, of blood" is _onufidd_, formed >from an archaic word for "sister" _onuf_ to which the abstract >nominal suffix _-idd_ was added. The usual word for "sister, >of blood" is _sel_. So: > >osell 'sister, not of blood' >osellidd 'sisterhood, not of blood' >sel 'sister, of blood' >onufidd 'sisterhood, of blood' > >||| daniel > >-- ><> Mad llammgalf! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> ><> Ond llamm! <> www.geocities.com/conlangus <> >
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