Category: Kēlen Word of the Day Entries

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janaren

janaren

janaren

We’re on this sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

ewaþ ñaxxa jajāra jaxālāe jatēnnen nā ñe janaren;

janaren is an indefinite pronoun meaning “everything”. The full phrase nā ñe janaren is literally “more than everything” and means “most [of all]”. So jajāra jaxālāe jatēnnen nā ñe janaren is “the most graceful and harmonious dance of all”. And ewaþ ñaxxa is “Yet they make”.

“Yet they make the most graceful and harmonious dance of all.”

No change really from this sentence in the original.

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antēnnen

anteennen

antēnnen

We’re on this sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

ewaþ ñaxxa jajāra jaxālāe jatēnnen nā ñe janaren;

antēnnen refers to beauty in movement, or “graceful”. It is also modifying jajāra and the entire phrase jajāra jaxālāe jatēnnen would be “a graceful and harmonious dance”. This is the object of ñaxxa, so a third person plural entity is the agent of this dance. Tomorrow, nā ñe.

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anxālāe

anxaalaae

anxālāe

The next sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

ewaþ ñaxxa jajāra jaxālāe jatēnnen nā ñe janaren;

anxālāe appears here in the inanimate singular, modifying the word jajāra “dance”. anxālāe as an attribute refers to something as it should be, which would be “orderly, in harmony, balanced, fair”. As a modifier for “dance”, “in harmony” is probably the best pick.

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jakīña

jakiinja

jakīña

The next sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

ānen antāλa ñaxxa jarāki honahan ja sexe jakīña;

Most of these words have been blogged before, except jakīña which means “wish”. So, ānen antāλa “with chaos” or “chaotically”; ñaxxa is ñi plus a 3rd person plural agent; jarāki is the plural “steps”; honahan is “any kind of” and modifies jarāki; ja is a relative pronoun, modifying jarāki honahan; sexe is se plus a 3rd person plural experiencer; and the thing they are experiencing is a wish.

“Chaotically, they make any kind of steps they wish.”

The biggest change between this sentence and the original is the phrase ānen antāλa in place of jarāeλa. I decided I didn’t like jarāeλa, so it is no longer a word.

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jaxūna

jaxuuna

jaxūna

We’re on this sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

wā sexe jawālīke to jajāra jaxūna;

jaxūna is related to jaxūnīke. Where jaxūnīke means “plan”, jaxūna means “pattern”. The –īke suffix derives artificial nouns from natural ones. So, jaxūna is a spontaneous or natural pattern that simply appears. jaxūnīke is a deliberately made pattern or plan. I used jaxūnīke in the original sentence, but I think jaxūna fits better. A dance has a pattern by definition, so that is considered a natural pattern. Write it down or otherwise abstract it, and the pattern becomes a plan.

wā sexe jawālīke to jajāra jaxūna;
“They did not experience close observation of the pattern of the dance.” or
“They did not study the dance-pattern.”

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jawālīke

jawaaliike

jawālīke

The next sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

wā sexe jawālīke to jajāra jaxūna;

jawālīke means “close observation” and is used also for research and study. As an object of se, which is here inflected with a 3rd person plural beneficiary/experiencer, this means “they experienced close observation”. The wā particle at the beginning of the sentence negates the sentence, so this part is “they did not experience close observation”. The thing observed or experienced in indicated by the to phrase, which I will discuss tomorrow.

In the original sentence, I used the word jatawāla instead of jawālīke. jatawāla does not currently exist in my dictionary, though it is in the spreadsheet of possible words.

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āñ

aanj

āñ

We’re on this sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

la sāeþ ānen anexīmi wā ānen sawūrre āñ ēmma;

sawūrre is the word for one’s voice. The particle āñ is modifying sawūrre and is acting as a reflexive marker, thus implying ‘own voice’. Since the entire phrase ānen sawūrre āñ ēmma is modifying sāeþ ‘they/them’, and since possessed nouns as a rule do not show plural marking, ānen sawūrre āñ ēmma is best translated as “except for their own voices”.

la sāeþ ānen anexīmi wā ānen sawūrre āñ ēmma;
“They are without music except for their own voices.”

There are only minor changes between this sentence and the original one I submitted in the relay. One minor change is the plural marking on sawūrre. The other is the singular inflection of anexīmi.

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anexīmi

anexiimi

anexīmi

The next sentence in the 15th Conlang Relay Text:

la sāeþ ānen anexīmi wā ānen sawūrre āñ ēmma;

As mentioned a few days ago, ānen … wā is ‘without’ and ānen … ēmma is except for. So this sentence is “They are without anexīmi except for sawūrre āñ.”

anexīmi is a collective noun that means “music”. I will discuss sawūrre āñ tomorrow.