Re: C-14 interlinear
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 14, 2004, 6:35 |
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As a translation exercise--very few coinages until I reached turtles:
In Rihana-ye:
fish breathes water: mafa ma foro
fish water breathes
fish breathe in water mafa-fe ma-me foro.
fishes water-in breathe
in water, fish breathe air: ma-me mafa-fe raha* foro
water-in fishes air breathe
dog breathes air: fabofa raha foro
dog air breathes
dogs breathe air: fabofa-fe raha foro
dogs air breathe
dogs don't breathe water: fabofa-fe ma he foro.
dogs water not breathe
not many dogs: he fugefe fabofa-fe
not many dogs
'dog eat fish: fabofa mafa go
dog fish eat
dog eat lots of fish: fabofa fugefe mafa-fe go
dog many fishes eats
dog stuffs itself on fish: fabofa mafa fugo*
dog fish greatly-eats
dog vomits fish: fabofa mafa wego.
dog fish vomits
NOTE: "wego" for vomit means "reverse eat"
fish eat dog : mafa-fe fabofa go
the sun rises: za to
sun rises
sun also rises: za fege to
sun also rises
fish see the sun: mafa-fe za cho
fishes sun see
dogs chase cat up a tree: fabofa-fe tiga-te difabofa hawevejo
dogs tree-on/over cat pursue
the turtle walked: sivemafa* wivejo
hardstreamanimal went
the turtle walked on grass sivemafa niga-te wivejo
turtle grass-on went
the turtle tucked in sivemafa semejo*
turtle self-in-made.
John Leland