honahan
The second sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
la sāeþ ānen jaxūnīki honahan wā;
honahan is an indefinite pronoun meaning “any kind” or “any manner”. When it modifies a noun, it means “any kind|manner of” noun, and the noun needs to be plural – so jaxūnīki honahan: of all the plans, any kind or manner of them. And ānen jaxūnīki honahan wā “without any kind of plan”, and the full sentence: “They are without any kind of plan.” This sentence is unchanged from the original.
jaxūnīke
The second sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
la sāeþ ānen jaxūnīki honahan wā;
jaxūnīke means “plan” and is derived from jaxūna which I will be blogging later as it also appears in this text. It appears here in the plural form.
ānen
The second sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
la sāeþ ānen jaxūnīki honahan wā;
ānen has appeared before as a preposition that when combined with a stative noun makes a clause-level modifier. It also has other functions. For instance, here it combines with the particle wā to mean “without”. In the next sentence, it combines with the particle ēmma to mean “except for”. The object of these phrases appears between ānen and the particles. So, ānen jaxūnīke honahan wā is “without jaxūnīke honahan“, which are the next two words I’ll be blogging.
sāeþ
The second sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
la sāeþ ānen jaxūnīki honahan wā;
sāeþ is simply the 3rd person plural pronoun. The last animate plural referent was to the dancers, so this also refers to the dancers.
satākken
The first sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
sere majjārien mo ritākken cī;
ritākken is the 2nd person inflection of the possessed noun meaning “attention, notice, focus”. “Experience with your attention the dancers” would be a decent mostly literal translation. “Pay attention to the dancers” would be better English. The original first sentence was se jatākken mo majjārien cī; which had attention as a regular noun, so whose attention was ambiguous. Also, by having the dancers be the beneficiary, it adhered too closely to English syntax. In the sentence “Look at the dancers”, the dancers are obviously* the object of se: “Experience with your eyes the dancers”. It only makes sense to have the same structure for “Pay attention to the dancers”, despite the fact that English doesn’t do that. But then, that is one of the challenges of having four relationals instead of thousands of verbs.
*Obvious to me, anyway. 🙂
majāra
The first sentence of the 15th Conlang Relay Text:
sere majjārien mo ritākken cī;
majjārien is the plural of the animate noun majāra which means “one who dances|is dancing”, “dancer”. The relational se here is inflected for a second person singular experiencer, so this sentence is addressed to you, the reader or listener. What you are experiencing is the dancers, what you are experiencing with, ritākken, will be discussed tomorrow, and the cī at the end there makes this whole sentence a polite suggestion.
jawāññerāñ
So, the 18th Conlang Relay is still not quite finished, the book that I’d been waiting for arrived and is now read, and while I could go on with numbers (indefinitely :-)), I have been slowly redoing various older relay texts. The older the text, the more work it is because the language has changed. Today, I will start blogging the 15th Conlang Relay text. (Yes, I skipped the 16th.) The original text I submitted is here, the rewritten text is here.
The first sentence in the text is the title:
se jawāññerāñ;
jawāññerāñ is the word for riddle or paradox. This makes the title of this text: “The Riddle”, or “Here is a Riddle”.
tēaral
tēaral is also derived from āral and is the word for 110 base 8, or 72 base 10. Unfortunately, few people use this term anymore, preferring the more transparent ōru aþōr (100 and 10).
āllaral
āllaral is also derived from āral and is the word for 60 base 8, or 48 base 10. The more prosaic way to say 60 is tēōr. Both terms are in common usage.
ēnnaral
ēnnaral is derived from āral and is the word for 30 base 8, or 24 base 10. The more prosaic way to say 30 is wījtōr. Both terms are in common usage.