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Tag Archives: 2011
High Eolic word of the day: tehar
tehar (noun): throne. runamár ngarangav tehar-úninut no.he/she sit.IMPERF throne-SUPERESS.DEF “there is nobody sitting on the throne”
‘Passive’ clauses in Trurian
Trurian does not have any conventional ‘passive’ construction. Instead, decreasing verb valence by demoting the agent of an action to an oblique role is handled through either of two mechanisms: 1) introduction of the promoted patient in a verbless relative … Continue reading
High Eolic word of the day: nucár
nucár (noun): full, fed; well-fed, fat, obese, fattened (also used for animals). Andárut mbertisam nucár-alindur váta ndarácapúndarur Andárut possess.IMPERF.TRANS fat-GEN.hundred.GEN and.not land.fertile.GEN “Andárut owns a hundred fat [animals], but no good land”
High Eolic word of the day: yimbárte
yimbá- (ditransitive verb), imperfective yimbárte: to buy. már yimbá-m navendacirandal allengettárut she buy-PERF.DITRANS ring.new.ACC husband.ILL.DEF “she bought [her] husband a new ring” As with many other ditransitive verbs, the indirect object of yimbárte is in the illative case, since it … Continue reading
High Eolic word of the day: ellang
ellang (noun): (brown) bear. civa ellang-urtutús mballÃrnas-Icánamec become.COMPL bear-GEN.numerous.ESS forest-Icána.INESS “there are many bears in the forests of Icána”
High Eolic word of the day: rupandárte
rupand- (ditransitive verb), imperfective rupandárte: to kill, assassinate (somebody for somebody’s benefit). ayú má’ rupand-am ringalut REFL he murder-PERF.DITRANS wife.ACC.DEF “he murdered [his] wife for his own benefit†The verb rupandárte takes morphology typical of ditransitive verbs, even though its … Continue reading
High Eolic word of the day: curá
curá (noun): nearby, present, close; here, located nearby. niyÃr curá tambám mál tinárándurvem superbly near hear.PERF.TRANS it.ACC words.king.GEN.DEF “[those] near [to him will] hear the king’s words the best” curá behaves technically as a noun, and is not usually used … Continue reading
High Eolic word of the day: luhúr
luhú- (intransitive verb), imperfective luhúr: to scream, shout. yat manúcá luhú-s sarengur certangang then prisoner.PL scream-IMPERF.NON1 pain.GEN night.EL “the prisoners were screaming from pain in the night”
High Eolic word of the day: sacarna
sacarna (adverb): soon, after(wards), in the near future. sacarna már evá mbet rassá tenámbes soon it cover.PERF and become.POT rain.ESS “it [will] become cloudy soon, and [maybe] it will rain” sacarna is used to situate events at some largely indeterminate … Continue reading
High Eolic word of the day: sircaláv
sircalá- (intransitive verb), imperfective sircaláv: to descend, go down. len sircalá carandettárut súrtec we descend.PERF lake.ILL.DEF water.BEN “we came down to [the shores of] the lake to [get] water”