Test Sentences, 15

Continuing with Gary’s list, and still experimenting with a one-a-day format:

  1. Lovely flowers are growing everywhere.

OK, “growing”. Remember back in post #3 of this series when I said that olaya and tadya were not going to be prefixable, and then I made an exception for tadya + tɨŋi when it came to rain in post #6 of this series. Well, here we are in post #15, and I am going to make another exception. olaya can be prefixed to tɨŋi in order to describe plants growing (going up out of the ground). But not for sunrises or children getting taller, ok?

34. maladɨdi syoɬɨdi olatɨŋi nadi soti.

maladɨdi
flower.MTpl
syoɬɨdi
pretty.MTpl
ola-
up
tɨŋi
tɨŋi.IMP
nadi
all.SSpl
soti
place.SSpl

In Kēlen:

34. ñi jamāli jaxōλi jajāēli sūnnarien;

ñi
NI
jamāli
flower.PL
jaxōλi
pretty.PL
jajāēli
growing.PL
sūnnarien
everywhere

Questions?