jasÄtsÄtena
Line 6 of the KÄ“len Jabberwocky:
tÅ jÄo sema jaþēλa mo sÄen ma ñi maþÄrre matÅrja sÅ« jasÄtsÄtena tÄ;
(See Nov 7th’s post for an introduction.)
jasÄtsÄten(a) is another nonsense word. It is derived from a reduplication of –sÄt– “thick, dense, stiff” and evocative of sasÄtten ‘one’s torso’. sÅ« jasÄtsÄtena tÄ is under the jasÄtsÄtena. There’s nothing here that specifies that it is a type of tree, but that would have messed up the syllable count in the line.
tÅ jÄo sema jaþēλa mo sÄen is “therefore he experiences thought/ideas” or “he thought” and ma ñi maþÄrre matÅrja is he becomes leaning and still.
il Årralon ñi jarewēλecÄwÄÅ‹Å‹i Ä jawÄ“lrÅ«lri rÅ« jaxÄ“wepÅma Äñ;
se jarÄÅ‹Å‹en mo jatēññÄntetÅ«rÄÅ‹Å‹eni; ñi japiÄ“lkÄhi tÅ jarÅhÄþi lÄ;
sere jakewÄla to macÄppacÄe sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa sakÄca jaþÄla nÄ;
to makÄ«maþÄlen masÄknenÅ«ren to macÅ«cÅ« matÅ« ñi ma rÅ« ma pÄ“xa cÄ«;
il jahÅλa ñamma masÄ“nre maxÅsa Ä sÄen japÄ“rnÅ jaλÄten nÄ«kamma sakÅ«;
tÅ jÄo sema jaþēλa mo sÄen ma ñi maþÄrre matÅrja sÅ« jasÄtsÄtena tÄ;
In the afternoon, the circular lizards did gyre and gimble around the shadow-stick.
The easily-annoyed thin-winged bird-spiders were annoyed.
The lost chicken-pigs make cough-cries!
Beware macÄppacÄe, its biting teeth, its many catching claws,
the frumious makÄ«maþÄlen, the macÅ«cÅ« bird
Be away from them.
For 1/8th of a day, he searched for his enemy, a deadly blade in his hand.
Therefore, leaning and still, he thought under the jasÄtsÄtena
masēnre
Line 5 of the KÄ“len Jabberwocky:
il jahÅλa ñamma masÄ“nre maxÅsa Ä sÄen japÄ“rnÅ jaλÄten nÄ«kamma sakÅ«;
(See Nov 7th’s post for an introduction.)
masÄ“nre is the word for “enemy” and ñamma masÄ“nre maxÅsa Ä sÄen is “He makes/made (his) enemy searched for” or “He searched for (his) enemy”.
il Årralon ñi jarewēλecÄwÄÅ‹Å‹i Ä jawÄ“lrÅ«lri rÅ« jaxÄ“wepÅma Äñ;
se jarÄÅ‹Å‹en mo jatēññÄntetÅ«rÄÅ‹Å‹eni; ñi japiÄ“lkÄhi tÅ jarÅhÄþi lÄ;
sere jakewÄla to macÄppacÄe sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa sakÄca jaþÄla nÄ;
to makÄ«maþÄlen masÄknenÅ«ren to macÅ«cÅ« matÅ« ñi ma rÅ« ma pÄ“xa cÄ«;
il jahÅλa ñamma masÄ“nre maxÅsa Ä sÄen japÄ“rnÅ jaλÄten nÄ«kamma sakÅ«;
In the afternoon, the circular lizards did gyre and gimble around the shadow-stick.
The easily-annoyed thin-winged bird-spiders were annoyed.
The lost chicken-pigs make cough-cries!
Beware macÄppacÄe, its biting teeth, its many catching claws,
the frumious makÄ«maþÄlen, the macÅ«cÅ« bird
Be away from them.
For 1/8th of a day, he searched for his enemy…
jasūpa
Line 3 of the KÄ“len Jabberwocky:
sere jakewÄla to macÄppacÄe sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa sakÄca jaþÄla nÄ;
(See Nov 7th’s post for an introduction.)
This is a real word, in the sense of being in the average KÄ“len dictionary. All the previous words from this poem that I have blogged were made-up words. See Nov 7th’s post if that confuses you.
jasÅ«pa is a bite. sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa are biting teeth. This phrase sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa sakÄca jaþÄla was the first thing I came up with when contemplating this translation. Everything else grew around it.
il Årralon ñi jarewēλecÄwÄÅ‹Å‹i Ä jawÄ“lrÅ«lri rÅ« jaxÄ“wepÅma Äñ;
se jarÄÅ‹Å‹en mo jatēññÄntetÅ«rÄÅ‹Å‹eni; ñi japiÄ“lkÄhi tÅ jarÅhÄþi lÄ;
sere jakewÄla to macÄppacÄe sapÄ«ra jasÅ«pa sakÄca jaþÄla nÄ;
In the afternoon, the circular lizards did gyre and gimble around the shadow-stick.
The easily-annoyed thin-winged bird-spiders were annoyed.
The lost chicken-pigs make cough-cries!
Beware macÄppacÄe, its biting teeth, …
ansÅnen
The abstract idea of “wisdom”. This is one of my favorite sentences in the story.
Sentence #27:
Ä“ te sarÅña pa ansÅnen nÄ Ã±e sasÅna Ä“ il tema anhÄri il ñi sÄen rÄjanÅ;
His eyes had more wisdom than his mind and when water was seen, he went to it.
jasīsse
This refers to a unit of length, something approximating a meter or a yard.
Sentence #13:
Ä“ ñi rÄjÄlme aþ rÄ jasÄ«sse pÄ“ nŠñi jarÅ«sa rÄ ja ñi jawae jÄ«rÄn wÄ il antielen te jatÅrreni jannarien;
Cross it and a few yards along, return to where nothing was altered after the completion of all things.
jasÅþa
Fourth sentence:
wÄ temle ien ew ñamma jamÄra tÅ honahan ew ñamma sÅ« jasÅþa;
He did not say to me how he made a dwelling, nor where.
jasÅþa means “place: or “location”. sÅ« jasÅþa is “at/on a place”.
ansēña
ansēña means dangerous, so sasÄ“sse jasÄ“si jasēñi is either “one’s kidneys’ dangerous spots” or “one’s kidneys’ spots are dangerous”.
setesse jatasēña ien sasēsse jasēsi jasēñi;
[se.tes.sÄ• ja.ta.zeË.ɲə̆ jÉ›n sa.zeË‘s.sÄ• ja.zeË.zi ja.zeË.ɲi]
sasēsse
So that tongue twister I mentioned earlier, it goes:
setesse jatasēña ien sasēsse jasēsi jasēñi;
Exercising my rusty IPA skillz: [se.tes.sÄ• ja.ta.zeË.ɲə̆ jÉ›n sa.zeË‘s.sÄ• ja.zeË.zi ja.zeË.ɲi]
sasÄ“sse is one’s kidney(s), and sasÄ“sse jasÄ“si are one’s kidneys’ dots or spots.
jasēsa
This is the word for ‘dot’, and in this sentence refers specifically to the dot that occurs under long vowels and doubled sonorants.
Creating this word, I thought I was using an unclaimed stem syllable, but when I checked the dictionary to make sure, I found that the word for ‘kidney’ used the same stem, and I decided that would not do. So I changed the word for ‘kidney’ to use the (probably unrelated) stem –sÄ“ss-. This makes the pronunciation of ‘dot’ [ja zeË za] and ‘kidney’ [sa zeË‘s sÄ•]. This led to a tongue twister I will share with you later.
temme Ä“ jaþēλi ien jakÄ Änen ansÄorÄ«ki ien jaxÅ«na Änen anrÅ«Ä“li Ä« xiÄ“n jÄ“ jÄxÄ«sse jÄ«lke Ä« jÄo ja la sÅ«jatÄ Ä“ jÄo sÅ«jÅl ien jiÄ“xa Änen jasÄ“si Ä« jÅrrisi Ä“ jatatÄ“n ien ñi jÄ«lkena cÄ“ jaþÄrre Årra Ä“ jawÄññerÄñi jīþi nÄ Ä«;
He said to him the ideas: the doings of consonants; the pattern of vowels, and also concerning the writing line and that which is beneath it and that above it; the usefulness of dots…
