Some new words

[Na'rìghawnu]

I'm quite busy at the moment, so I can't write a lot here, but I want to let you know some new words coming from K. Pawl.

We saw fìtxon already in his translation of Why is this night ... . Well there are also some related words:

fìtxon	(Adv)	tonight
txonam	(Adv)	last night
txonay	(Adv)	tomorrow night
trray	(Adv)	tomorrow
sekrr	(N)	present

Furthermore I'm happy to tell you about same words, which are for sure essential in the narrative culture of the Na'vi:

vur	(N)	story
tìpängkxo	(N)	conversation, discussion
tìsrese'a	(N)	prophecy
nawmtu	(N)	great person
txantstew	(N)	hero
tstew	(Adj)	brave
fkew	(Adj)	mighty

And last a special:

nguway

(N)

howl, viperwolf cry

[Tirea Aean]

Txantsana fmawn ma 'eylan oeyä! ngaru seiyi irayo.

['eylan na'viyä]

interesting, that <txantstew   (N)   hero> is made without -yu or -tu and out of 2 adjectives

[Tirea Aean]

yes, this is interesting, as i would have also expected hero to be something like txantstewtu. as for short of nìtxan tsewa tute. but either way, we should accept this word "txantstew" as it is and how it has been given to us by Paul to function.

[Kemaweyan]

txonam (Adv) last night
txonay (Adv) tomorrow night

Srake tsun fko tengfya pivlltxe san

zìsìtam - last year
zìsìtay - next year

sìk?

[Tirea Aean]

txonam (Adv) last night
txonay (Adv) tomorrow night

Srake tsun fko tengfya pivlltxe san

zìsìtam - last year
zìsìtay - next year

sìk?

tsun fko tsamelì'ut sivar a fì'u lam oeru.

[Seze]

I thought mighty was fkeu.  When did this change?  I think I need to pay more attention around here, hard to keep up...

[Swoka Swizaw]

txonam (Adv) last night
txonay (Adv) tomorrow night

Srake tsun fko tengfya pivlltxe san

zìsìtam - last year
zìsìtay - next year

sìk?

Pelun ke...?

[Ftiafpi]

I thought mighty was fkeu.  When did this change?  I think I need to pay more attention around here, hard to keep up...

Yeah, I think that changed a while back, around the time neu turned into new.

[roger]

I thought mighty was fkeu.  When did this change?  I think I need to pay more attention around here, hard to keep up...

Yeah, I think that changed a while back, around the time neu turned into new.

SG material from an early draft of Frommer's.

[roger]

Note the shift in stress between srese'a and tìsrese'a.

[Tirea Aean]

I thought mighty was fkeu.  When did this change?  I think I need to pay more attention around here, hard to keep up...

yeah im pretty sure that all words ending in eu have been changed to end in ew. possibly even that eu has completely changed to ew.

Note the shift in stress between srese'a and tìsrese'a.

that IS interesting, but somehow still makes sense to me. nice catch by the way.

[Plumps]

sekrr (N) present

Nice, thanks for sharing!

sekrr from set + krr ?

Interesting side note ... if nguway is a wiperwolf's cry and way is song/animal sound, what makes that of pongu?

[roger]

sekrr[/td][td](N)[/td][td]present[/td][/tr][/table]

Nice, thanks for sharing!

sekrr from set + krr ?

Interesting side note ... if nguway is a wiperwolf's cry and way is song/animal sound, what makes that of pongu?

Po s/he + ngu pack of wolves = people acting like wolves.

[Kì'eyawn]

Txantsan!  Irayo, ma Na'rìghawnu.

[Plumps]

Another interesting shift in stress

From the already existing examples trray and trram I'd expect the stress in txonam and txonay to be on only -am and -ay (if at all ...) but here txon is split appart and becomes part of the 'time suffixes' for past and future -nam and -nay ... very interesting
Or is there a mistake in transcription?

[wm.annis]

From the already existing examples trray and trram I'd expect the stress in txonam and txonay to be on only -am and -ay (if at all ...)

It is completely normal for inflectional endings or word compounding to alter the syllabification of a word.  Frommer has said that, "in general, the tendency with VCV is to syllabify as V.CV rather than VC.V" (Canon), so txonam is expected.

[Plumps]

As I said so often: you learn something new with Na'vi every day
pìmlltxe oe pxìm fìtxan san lì'fyari leNa'vi fkol 'ut amip nume fratrr sìk

Thanks for clarifying and explaining
tìoeyktìngìri sì tìlawri oe ngaru seiyi irayo

EDIT: oe lamu skxawng

[Taronyu]

I really like the derivation of pongu...

[Tirea Aean]

As I said so often: you learn something new with Na'vi every day
pìmlltxe oe pxìm fìtxan san lì'fyari leNa'vi fkol 'ut amip nume fratrr sìk

Thanks for clarifying and explaining
oeykìri sì tìlawri oe ngaru seiyi irayo

As said so often by me: as for the Na'vi language, one learns about something new every day.
Aìpawnlltxe fìtxan pxìm oefa: san lì'fyari leNa'vi fko nume teri 'uo amip fratrr. sìk

Thanks for the explanation
Tìoeyktìngìri oe ngaru seiyi irayo.