The South Wind and the Sun 2

The rest of the sentences from the South Wind and the Sun…

Lohoya kehimena, saselevena.

The sun started the task, they started to emit light.

Light is a body part of the sun, at least in this case.

Sama ŋono seleve, sama ŋono kalave, mede banas dahidahi keneŋiyi baŋibaŋi.

They emitted more light, they emitted more heat, and still the woman was lying down under the tree.

Light and heat are body parts of the sun here, and modified by an adjective. The adjective comes between the possessor and the body part. The final clause has =yi for a continuing situation and baŋibaŋi to express that this situation is contrary to expectation.

Lohoya kehimeto, elekenda ureya kehimena aŋaka, saderelevina.

The sun stopped, and the south wind started, they started to emit breath (blow).

Breath is a partially reduplicated noun, but the unreduplicated noun is not in the current lexicon. It is cognate with Kēlen rēl ‘breath’.

Saya elekenda sakanda mede sonos oloŋira, pezes kalara.

He made clouds go from the southern mountains to over the tree, and made the heat go away.

Lamana layisena, lamana tene selese, zeseyelo.

The sky started to be hidden, all the light was hidden, and the darkness increased.

Earlier there was a conjunction aŋaka glossed as “and then”. It is generally only used for emphasis. Sequence of clauses is usually assumed. The motion particle=lo UP is used here to convey an increase in an entity made of water, air, light, or sound. =ta DOWN can be used to convey a decrease.

Ŋono zeye layisenahiza kenes delino.

The woman thought that the sky would start to become darker.

An idea came to the woman, and =za marks the idea: ŋono zeye layisenahi or more dark the sky potentially starts to be.

Mede bananda pezes kenera, maras sara.

The woman went away from under the tree and went home.

Nenenda ŋono takaka elekenda uriŋe kodu.

And so the south wind is the stronger of the pair.

Next week I start a longer story in four parts…