Category: T

jatū

Line 4 of the Kēlen Jabberwocky:

to makīmaþālen masāknenūren to macūcū matū ñi ma rū ma pēxa cī;

(See Nov 7th’s post for an introduction.)

This is the word for bird, or flying thing really, since I hate birds and refuse to allow any on my planet. (Bats, on the other hand, are cool.) It’s been turned into an animate noun here, to match macūcū, and the assonance is not a coincidence. 🙂

ñi ma rū ma pēxa cī is “(one) be away from him/her/them”.

il ōrralon ñi jarewēλecāwāŋŋi ā jawēlrūlri rū jaxēwepōma āñ;
se jarāŋŋen mo jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni; ñi japiēlkāhi tō jarōhāþi lā;

sere jakewāla to macāppacāe sapīra jasūpa sakāca jaþāla nā;
to makīmaþālen masāknenūren to macūcū matū ñi ma rū ma pēxa cī;

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 macāppacāe, its biting teeth, its many catching claws,
the frumious makīmaþālen, the macūcū bird
     Be away from them.

jatēññāntetūrāŋŋen

Line 2 of the Kēlen Jabberwocky:

se jarāŋŋen mo jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni; ñi japiēlkāhi tō jarōhāþi lā;

(See Monday’s post for an introduction.)

anrāŋŋen means the quality of inducing a frown, the quality of being annoying. The singular form jarāŋŋen as the object of se therefore means “annoyed”. And who (or what) is annoyed? jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni.

jatēññāntetūrāŋŋen = tēñ ‘thin’ + ñānte ‘wing’ + tū ‘bird’ + rāŋŋen ‘annoyed’. (easily annoyed thin-winged birds) Or, maybe it is tēññ(ex) ‘conflicted’ + ānte ‘joy’ + tū ‘bird’ + rāŋŋe ‘spider’? (conflicted yet basically joyful bird-spiders) Or, tēn ‘all’ + ñānte ‘wing’ + tūr ‘injury’ + āŋŋen ‘pointy’? (all-winged pointy injury-causing things (living needles with wings, and they are annoyed! :twisted:))

Whichever you choose, it refers to “mimsy borogoves”.
(Then there’s double ññ and double ŋŋ in the same word!)

il ōrralon ñi jarewēλecāwāŋŋi ā jawēlrūlri rū jaxēwepōma āñ;
se jarāŋŋen mo jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni; ñi japiēlkāhi tō jarōhāþi lā;

In the afternoon, the circular lizards did gyre and gimble around the shadow-stick.
The easily-annoyed thin-winged bird-spiders were annoyed. …