jīlcīlre
The eighth and final sentence of the 2nd Inverse Relay text:
il ñi liēþ rāmāra il jīlcīlre;
This one is straightforward. ñi liēþ rāmāra is “we go home” and il … il jīlcīlre is “when” plus jīlcīlre which is a word for a period of cold weather, and in a planet with seasons might refer to winter.
il ñi liēþ rāmāra il jīlcīlre;
We go home in the winter.
jarēlān
The sixth sentence of the 2nd Inverse Relay text:
il ñi liēþ rā anmāxxānwi nīkan jarēlān jēspe il ñi anālhāri ansēlni;
nīkan jarēlān jēspe is a phrase that modifies yesterday’s word anmāxxānwi and means “together with” something something. The first something, jarēlān is the word for a light wind. I’ll cover jēspe tomorrow.
anālre
Continuing with our theme, today we start on the text for the LCC3 Relay. The original text was a poem contributed by David J Peterson. I have mixed feelings about translating poetry. I’ve never been good at poetry, even in a conlang. On the other hand, it does provide an opportunity to mess with the syntax and vocabulary. And having a refrain means less to translate, which can be a plus or a minus.
So, the first line:
la liēn sū anālhāri anālri jahāwa ñi antāoni anhūwi rūjapēxa;
Unfamiliar words include anālri, jahāwa, and anhūwi.
anālri is the stative anālre inflected to modify anālhāri “ocean”. anālre means “having to do with storms, having the quality of a storm” or “stormy”, so anālhāri anālri is “stormy ocean”.
Tomorrow jahāwa.
ancīlri
frost. The stative form ancīlre retains the meaning ‘frosty’ but has expanded to cover any state considered to be ‘chilly’ or ‘cold’.
antīñi
dew. A single drop of dew would be jatīña.
anxāhi
an expanse of mist or fog. The singular jaxāha is sometimes used to express a piece/wisp/curl/etc of mist or fog.
jūrāna
the wind. This is the default word for wind considered as a singular entity. The collective anūrāni can be used for wind as a series of gusts, but more often the collective anūri is used instead. (The –ān– in the root –ūrān– is a singular marker.)
anūra
the air, the atmosphere. This word can also refer to any movement in the air. Thus anūri can be used to refer to wind, or to blowing air, or the rushing by of air.
ñamma anūri nā ā mūrāna masīrien
The North Wind made much moving-air.
Wind is in the animate singular here rather than the usual inanimate singular as above because the North Wind is a character in the story.
ankēōren
overcast, so a sheet of cloud, gray in color, covering the whole sky. One might sometimes encounter the non-standard word ankēōri for a grouping of clouds, but never jakēōr for a single cloud.
jalāra
a cloud, especially of the white and fluffy type. Partly cloudy might be called ānen anlāri using the collective form for a group of clouds.
jālre
a storm, with wind, rain, thunder, or lightning. A big storm might be referred to in the collective anālri in recognition of all the different parts and events that occur during a storm.