Tag Archives: 2012

wem (noun): milk (especially freshly milked). “there’s still [some] milk in the jug”

enawrono (perfective verb): to admit, confess (to). Yer tyn ipoli simthono simtheon enawron. “the thief confessed that [he had] stolen the vase” The verb enawrono usually occurs together with the conjunction tyn ‘that’, introducing a subordinate clause that may precede or … Continue reading →

yil (noun): wing. Yer min tämdath yileí afilmono täyer rothí aprethon. “[he] chopped off the duck’s wings before strangling it”

öchleon (imperfective verb): to plow (a field). “we were plowing the field yesterday” Listen to the example sentence here: W_TR_018_oechleon_example

sanäl (noun): chair, seat, place (at a table); role, position. “he does not deserve a place [at] my [table]” The noun sanäl is very often encountered in the collocation sanäli derwono, literally ‘find a seating-place’, but often used in the sense … Continue reading →

gelnech (noun): grapevine. “the noblemen planted many grapevines in the valley”

tundhö (noun): corpse; carrion. “I almost tripped over a corpse in the corridor” tundhö is originally a borrowing from High Eolic tund ‘corpse’, but has also come to mean ‘carrion’ more generally (i.e. dead or rotting flesh eaten by birds such … Continue reading →

pilaí (adjective): young, fresh, new, newly occurring or growing. “a new calf was born yesterday” The adjective pilaí is used in opposition to timaí ‘new, newly acquired’, as it holds the connotation of an entity that has newly grown or … Continue reading →