Category: Kēlen Word of the Day Entries

tēna

is a modifier that follows nouns and pronouns and means, basically, each one in a set. So, for a set of two it means both, and for a set of more than two, each. It can only modify dual and paucal pronouns and collective nouns. In the Kēlen rephrasal of the 1st article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this word occurs twice, once in the first clause and once in the second.

In the first clause, tēna modifies mēli manaren, a noun phrase consisting of the collective form of mēla followed by the collective pronoun/modifier manaren ‘everyone’. So, mēli manaren tēna ‘each one of all people.’

In the second clause, tēna modifies ñēim, a first person paucal (collective) inclusive pronoun, so again, ‘each one of all of us’.

Today’s word plus yesterday’s:
tō la mēli manaren tēna ñe anhēnārīki anīλi jañāona jañēie
tō pa ñēim tēna ē lenārre ē lewēren
tō jāo hēja senneñ anēla anciēri ke mān mo mīþa
ien sexe mo maþūskīri mo sāim maþūskīriēma cī;