mamÅra
We’re on the seventh sentence of the 14th Conlang Relay Text:
se jasÄla mo mamÅri ma setenne jaxÄeli jÄ«lli;
The word mamÅra is the word for “moon” and is animate for the same reason that the word for sun is animate: because. OK, because the sun and the moon and some other natural phenomena are traditionally considered to be persons. mamÅri is in the collective because if TÄ“rjemar has moons, it has more than one.*
More on this sentence tomorrow.