Test Sentences, 53

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. Between the two lofty mountains lay a fertile valley.

Between! That means a new verb: duso. And that means I have now used all 11 verbs. Yay, me!

duso means to go back and forth from one point to another. To make a path between two points, we prefix duso with alamya making alanduso. And even though the valley is not actually moving, we still use alanduso.

75. gyɨdɨdɛn gegyelɨdɛn alanduso laɬi laddɨŋyi ɛni dɛstɛ.

gyɨdɨdɛn
valley.MTsg
gegyelɨdɛn
fertile.MTsg
alan-
across
duso
duso.IMP
laɬi
mountain.SSpl
laddɨŋyi
lofty.SSpl
ɛni
two.SSpl
dɛstɛ
I’m told

In Kēlen:

75. la jajīra sū jalāji jasīñi ēnne āñ;

la
LA
jajīra
valley
at
jalāji
mountains
jasīñi
tall
ēnne
two
āñ
between

Questions?