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Ring B: 13/22: Kēlen |
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Kēlenla jasāla jatēnāŋŋe nīkan macēna nīkan macūma; sanna jasāla jīsōra ānen ansōri þō:
se jalāña mo jāŋŋeren jēspe sū ñēim manaren mē;
se jasāla mo mamōri ma setenne anxāeli anīlli;
āl ñanna lekū rājōl rā mērji ma setenne mīsien cī;
semme jacāna ke macēna mo macūma; ñi þo jehē cī; |
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Smooth TranslationThe marriage song of woman and man We repeat this song with these words:
Give praise for the beauty remaining in all of us.
Give song for the moons who give us silvery nights.
Now let's lift our hands up to the gods who give us children.
The woman gives love to the man. Let this be truth. |
Grammar
Nouns are inflected in the following ways:
prefixed with j(a)- for inanimate nouns
prefixed with m(a)- for animate and animate collective nouns
prefixed with an- for collective nouns and abstract or descriptive nouns
prefixed with l(e)- for 1p obligatorily possessed nouns. Obligatorily
possessed nouns only take a singular suffix, even when referring to
more than one object.
suffixed with -a, -e, or nothing for singular nouns
suffixed with -i for collective nouns, animate collective nouns,
and inanimate plural nouns
suffixed with -ien for animate plural nouns
Nouns in apposition with the same inflection refer to the same entity.
Nouns in apposition with different infections refer to different entities,
usually with a WHOLE PART relationship.
There are no verbs. Instead there are relationals:
LA takes a single object: something that exists in a state or a location.
NI takes a single object: something that has undergone a change of state
or location.
NI {object} LOCATIVE denotes motion of the object.
SE takes a single object: something that has a source and/or a goal.
The goal in SE often refers to an experiencer or beneficiary.
SE is often used to express utterances. SE also prefers to have
singular objects, even of otherwise abstract nouns.
The uninflected forms of these three relationals are:
la
ñi
se
LA is never inflected for person.
NI is never inflected for tense or aspect.
NI and SE can be inflected for person. When NI is inflected for person, it is
inflected for agent. When SE is inflected for person, it can be inflected for
source and/or goal. The following inflections are used:
| -anna | 1p.incl.paucal agent or source |
| -emme | 3p.sg agent of source + 3p.sg goal |
| -enne | 1p.incl.paucal goal |
| -ennete | 1p.incl.paucal agent or source + 3p.paucal goal |
| -etenne | 3p.paucal agent or source + 1p.incl.paucal goal |
| 1p | first person |
| 3p | third person |
| incl. | inclusive |
| sg. | singular |
Paucal number is often used to refer to a collective.
Additionally, both LA and SE can be inflected for tense or aspect. Only the following inflection is used.
hej- future tense plus optative aspect: will, should, hoped for
Word order is:
Relational Object-of-Relational Rest-of-the-Sentence Mood-Marker. Parallel prepositional phrases (beginning with the same preposition) are assumed to have an unexpressed conjunction 'and' between them. Locative prepositions must have an object. When the object is abstract or unexpressed, an epenthetic -j- is affixed between the preposition and the locative modifier.
Vocabulary
| āl | now |
| -ālnaren- | (N) joy in the occasion, happiness, euphoria |
| -ālneh- | (N) good fortune |
| -ālt- | (N) health, well-being |
| ānen | comitative preposition: with |
| -ānn- | (N) beginning, start |
| -āŋŋeren- | (N) beauty |
| -ātaren | (N) a specific kind of tree |
| -cāll- | (N) warmth |
| -cān- | (N) love |
| -cēn- | (N) woman, female |
| cī | commissive mood marker - used when something should happen or will happen because of the speaker's will. |
| -cōn- | (N) safety, defense |
| -cūm- | (N) man, male |
| -ehē | (N) truth, sincerity, integrity |
| -ērj- | (N) deity, power |
| -ēsp- | (N) remaining, staying |
| -hāmm- | (N) grain |
| -hē- | (N) good |
| ī | and, also |
| ien | relative pronoun occuring only with the object of SE |
| il | time word marker: during, when, while; also used simply to prefix words like today or tomorrow, which are not regular nouns and so not inflected for animacy or number. |
| -īll- | (N) silver, also moonlight |
| -ī&lgr,lambda;āel- | (N) harvest |
| -īsōr- | (N) repetition, recitation |
| -īs- | (N) child |
| jē | preposition: against, in opposition to, from |
| ja | inanimate relative pronoun |
| jaliþa | today |
| ke | animate source marker with SE |
| -kīþj- | (N) strength, not necessarily physical strength |
| -kō- | (N) hearth |
| -kū- | (N) hand |
| lānnal | tomorrow |
| -lāñ- | (N) praise, thanks |
| -lō- | (N) light |
| -lōn- | (N) day |
| ma | animate relative pronoun |
| manaren | everyone, all of us/them |
| mē | locative modifier: in, inside, into |
| mo | goal or benefactive marker with SE |
| -mōr- | (N) moon (poetic) |
| nīkan | possessive preposition |
| -nle | 1p possessive suffix: my, our |
| ñēim | us (3p.incl.paucal) |
| ōl | locative modifier: up, above |
| -pīñ- | (N) evil |
| -pīþj- | (N) storage |
| rā | locative preposition: to, towards |
| -rēh- | (N) future |
| -rēl- | (N) breath, air, also weather in many noun phrases |
| -sāl- | (N) song, prayer |
| -sōr- | (N) word |
| sū | locative preposition: at, in |
| -tāñ- | (N) screen, shelter |
| tēna | all (of a set) |
| -tēnāŋŋ- | (N) marriage, wedding |
| to | inanimate source marker with SE |
| -þīñ- | (N) path |
| þō | this, here |
| -ūrān- | (N) wind |
| -xāel- | (N) night |
| -xēw- | (N) shade, shadow |
(N designates a noun stem)
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