ÅrÅ«
You saw ÅrÅ« in yesterday’s post. It means 100 in base 8, so 64 in base 10. An alternate form is Änoru which emphasizes the 1 in 100. The –Å« suffix is used several times in numbers and kinda sorta means “squared”. And since År is the stem for 10 (or 8 in decimal form), ÅrÅ« is År squared.
Åraen
We’re on this sentence in the 17th Conlang Relay Text:
se jarÅ«lÅn to jakÄ“rþe Ä« ñi jakÄ“rþi Åraen rÄ xÅ;
The horse made a loud cry and then…ñi jakÄ“rþi Åraen rÄ xÅ;
Åraen is another number. It means 10,000 in base 8, which is 4096 in base ten, but really it’s not that exact, and “thousands” is a good translation. “and then thousands of horses went to there”. “came/went to there” is the literal translation, but “arrived” also works.
se jarÅ«lÅn to jakÄ“rþe Ä« ñi jakÄ“rþi Åraen rÄ xÅ;
The horse made a loud cry and then thousands of horses arrived.
Årra
We’re on sentence 6 of the Babel text:
il aþ ñi λi ÄrÅn rÄ Äke tÅ sema mo sarÅña jamÄonre nÄ«kan jakÅnÅr ja Årra ñatta;
Årra is a past tense marker denoting completion.
“And then the Lord went there to see the city and the tower that they had built.”
jÅl
the top of something. This is related to the postpositional modifier Ål, which I blogged about earlier. That completes all the nouns in the fourth sentence of the Babel text.
Ä“ teteñ ien hÄ“ja ñanna jamÄonre nÄ«kan jakÅnÅr ja ñi jÅl rÄ anÄ«stÄ«li;
As for the rest, it should all be straightforward. The only word in there I haven’t mentioned before is ja.
Ål
The modifier Ål refers to the top of something. This is related to the word sÅlle ‘head’. RÄ NP Ål is to the top of NP or over NP and rÅ« NP Ål is from the top of NP or from above NP.
rÄjÅl
rÄjÅl is rÄ NP Ål without a specified location, and so means ‘to the top’ or ‘over’.
rÅ«jÅl
Likewise rÅ«jÅl is rÅ« NP Ål without a specified location, and so means ‘from the top’ or ‘from above’.
sÅrwe
one’s leg or legs.
The upper and lower parts of the legs (and of the arms for that matter), are described using annÅ and anpÄ“xa. So sÅrwe janÅ is the upper leg or thigh, and sÅrwe japÄ“xa is the lower leg or calf. Likewise with satÄka janÅ, the upper arm, and satÄka japÄ“xa, the lower arm or forearm. annÅ and anpÄ“xa generally mean near and far respectively. In this usage, the point of reference is the torso (sasÄtten).
sÅlle
one’s head, everything from the neck up.
pa sÄen sÅlle jÅnÅna lÄ;
He has a huge head! (discussing size, here)
anÅlñe
white, gray, the color of clouds. Symbolically, the color of change.