āniþ

anith

āniþ

Line 9 of the Kēlen Jabberwocky:

āniþ ēnne; āniþ ēnne; ñamma jatāŋŋi ŋō tō jēste jarūsīsse rā ma kiē;

(See Nov 7th’s post for an introduction.)

āniþ is a word for “one”. āniþ ēnne; āniþ ēnne; is “One, two. One, two”.

il ōrralon ñi jarewēλecāwāŋŋi ā jawēlrūlri rū jaxēwepōma āñ;
se jarāŋŋen mo jatēññāntetūrāŋŋeni; ñi japiēlkāhi tō jarōhāþi lā;

sere jakewāla to macāppacāe sapīra jasūpa sakāca jaþāla nā;
to makīmaþālen masāknenūren to macūcū matū ñi ma rū ma pēxa cī;

il jahōλa ñamma masēnre maxōsa ā sāen japērnō jaλāten nīkamma sakū;
tō jāo sema jaþēλa mo sāen ma ñi maþārre matōrja sū jasātsātena tā;

il jīla þō ñi macāppacāe matāλisse rā xō rā jamēþena jaxēla kiē;
ānen sarōña janāola ñi jaxīra ñe ankālli ankālleni anūmi nā;

āniþ ēnne; āniþ ēnne; ñamma jatāŋŋi ŋō tō jēste jarūsīsse rā ma kiē;

In the afternoon, the circular lizards did gyre and gimble around the shadow-stick.
The easily-annoyed thin-winged bird-spiders were annoyed.
     The lost chicken-pigs make cough-cries!

Beware macāppacāe, its biting teeth, its many catching claws,
the frumious makīmaþālen, the macūcū bird
     Be away from them.

For 1/8th of a day, he searched for his enemy, a deadly blade in his hand.
Therefore, leaning and still, he thought under the jasātsātena.

At that moment, mercurial macāppacāe came to there through the dark woods.
With flaming eyes, he made a noise like very loud popping bubbles.

One, two. One, two.

jānnara

jaannara

jānnara

This is a quantity, amount, or measurement of something. It is also the word for a number.

Sentence #17:

kexien tema jaxiēna ien ē rēha la jalōna wījte rā annāmmi ī te māniþa sū jahāttam ōl nīkan anhāri jānnara sū japiēþi jakīwi mē;
Here, he understood that there was three days to fresh water and also he was alone atop a camel, with a quantity of water in skin containers.

ārre & wījtē

aarre

ārre

wiijtee

wījtē

Sentence 10 of the LCC4 relay text:

wā pa riēn ancē ja serle ien jasōra wījtē ja la lewēra lā;

The subordinate clause ja serle ien jasōra wījtē ja la lewēra lā is “you say to me the three words that are my name!”

wījtē is the main word for three, and is derived from wīj “half” and “six”. That’s because the older word for three is ārre, which sounded a lot like ālle (“four”) and ōr (“eight/ten”). ārre still is used in poetry and deliberately archaic speech.

anāniþa

anaanitha

anāniþa

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

wā ñaxxa jarāka jāniþa jē nā;

The only unblogged word is jāniþa which is the singular (because modifying jarāka) form of the stative anāniþa, meaning “singular, single” or “alone”. So this sentence translates to “They do not make only a single step.” This sentence is also unchanged from the original.

We’ll start another relay text tomorrow.

tēaral

teearal

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

aallaral

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

eennaral

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.

āral

aaral

āral

āral is the word for 14 base 8, or 12 base 10. It consists of the stem for the old form of 3 and the stem for the old form of 4.

The more prosaic way to say 14 is ōr awīor (10 and 4), but very few people use that, and then only in technical applications.

ālū

aaluu

ālū

ālū also has that –ū suffix, and it means 20 in base 8 or 16 in base 10. The stem āl is derived from an old word for 4, which is only ever found these days in derived words and in old poetry.

The other word for 20 is ēnnōr, and while it is rarely used in counting ōrū aþōnne (17), ālū (20), ālū aþān (21), it is used after – as in ōrū aþēnnōr (100 and 20).

ārū

aaruu

ārū

ārū has that –ū suffix, and it means 11 in base 8 or 9 in base 10. The stem ār is derived from an old word for 3, which is only ever found these days in derived words and in old poetry.

The other word for 11 is ōr aþān (10 and 1), but rather than count ōnne (7), ōrū (10), ōr aþān (11), ōr aþēnne (12) many people will count ōnne (7), ōrū (10), ārū (11), ārū aþān (11 and 1).