anxēla
Speaking, of shadows, anxēla is the word for dark or darkness. This word is the opposite of anlūi or “light”. Darkness can be either stative or singular, but light is generally collective.
rā anxēla mē makkāontien
And in the darkness bind them
anniþen ñi jaxēla janāra;
Soon it became complete darkness.
anxēwi
This is the word for shadows or shade, and, yes, it is related to yesterday’s word.
sū jekiēn mōrtōr ja pa anxēwi;
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie
anxūna
We’re still on sentence 17 of the LCC4 relay text:
ñamma jēste rā λi tānre sakīwa kiē ānen anxūna;
anxūna refers to a pattern and one characteristic of a pattern is that it repeats – so ānen anxūna means “repeatedly”. So she pushed the knife through Tānre’s skin repeatedly. Poor Tānre.
jaxēxa
We’re on the third sentence of the 18th Conlang Relay Text
samma japēlti mo jaxēxi ja ē ñi jarewēλi ī ñi jahūwi ī ñi jasēþa ñe jawēlrienāl rū jatāsa λi xēþa āñ;
The tūmse is barking at jaxēxi, the plural of jaxēxa which means smoke as a countable thing, so a plume, puff, cloud or wisp of smoke. Otherwise, the word for smoke is the sensibly collective anxēxi. jaxēxi is followed by the relative pronoun ja and then a number of conjoined ñi clauses.
anxēwa
We’re still on the ninth sentence in the 14th Conlang Relay Text:
se jasāla mo jātaren ja senne jatāña jaxēwa;
and the last word is jaxēwa, which is the inanimate singular (to modify jatāña) of the stative anxēwa, which refers to the attribute of giving shade or casting shadows. jatāña jaxēwa then really emphasizes the shade-giving qualities of the ātaren tree. I chose to translate this phrase as “shady shelter”.
“Give song for the ātaren tree that gives us shady shelter.”
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.
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.”
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.
xō
The next sentence in the 17th Conlang Relay Text is:
ñamma jarāka rū xō ā macūma ānen antānre;
The only unfamiliar word is xō, which means “there, that place”. So this sentence translates to: “The man made steps from there with quickness” or “The man moved quickly away.”
xiēn jē
This is a preposition meaning “about” or “concerning”.
la þō jatāena xiēn jē anþēŋŋeni;
This story is about an argument.
The titles of many short texts consist of xiēn jē plus a noun phrase. For example, the title of the Kēleni version of the North Wind and the Sun is xiēn jē anþēŋŋeni “Concerning an argument”.