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Re: war and death are in my hand

From:Wade, Guy <guy.wade@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 14:11
> "Behold! From Hell's dark sisterhood am I, > and War and Death are in my hand!"
In Canotaea: Oronte! Iledi libialun sdraiu ileda mordai ome, y on mandalar aema rordynda-manda y shulynda osese. Whew! Thanks for the excersize. oronte = look, peer, behold, 2nd pers sing (plural = oronsete) libiale = sister (biale = brother) pl. -e > -un iledi = ile (the) + di (from) -- inflecting the article signfies a class noun (iledi libialun = the Sisterhood) sdraiu = dark morda = grave, pl. -i (not concept of eternal hellfire. Ileda mordai "of the Grave" signifies the common grave of mankind.) ome = I am, from inf. ond mandalar = hand (lit. "maker") aema = my, mine rordynda-manda = war (from rordynd "slaughter, murder" + -a (the verb becomes a noun) and mand "make" + -a. lit "_The_ slaughter-making." Usually -a nouns signify fundamental concepts. See below.) shulynda = Death, from shulynd "die" osese = they are