Re: war and death are in my hand

Ynnehil!  Yry tand divvungya htestrahsint,
Send Griht uo Nored celal kref!

(Send celal pleso~ virz nivvelnag uo grihtivarn!)

See!  I from Hell's sisterhood [am],
And War and Death in my grip.

{and swords and warriors in my iron womb)


(I added a line from the Gospel of Grorel)

Interlinear:

Ynnehil = behold, see.

Yry    tand      di  +  vungya htestra  + hsin + t
Emph. from     poss.  hell      sister(s)  group for
pron.  (static)

Send  griht   uo   nored   cel + al   kref
Conj.  war   and death    in     my  grip.

Send  cel + al   pleso   vir + z
Conj   in     my  womb iron  (obj.part.)

ni + velnag    uo    grihtivar +  n
pl.   sword   and    warrior     pl.


Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


----- Original Message -----
From: daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:57 AM
Subject: war and death are in my hand


> 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
>
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> <> Mad llammgalf! <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <>
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>

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