I need help with a few words in Na'vi...

[Tanhì’unilyu]

Kaltxi fellow Na'vi users! My name is Mìsti'i and I'm relatively new here to LearnNa'vi and a rank beginner at the language (though I already know some basic vocab).

I am working on a fanfic story for Avatar based around Neytiri and Jake musing over their coming child (Neytiri's carrying Jake's child) and I want to write some of the dialog in Na'vi. In one scene, Neytiri calls her child 'precious' and a 'gift' or 'blessing' of Eywa. I haven't been able to find a Na'vi word for any of these words and I've looked in many different sources, referenece, etc. (I lurk around places and boards a lot). Are there even words in Na'vi for these words yet? If there aren't, are there words I can substitute for them to use instead?

And also, how do you say 'love' like 'I love you' in Na'vi? Do the Na'vi even say it to each other like that, or do they say something else?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Irayo in advance!

[kewnya txamew'itan]

1. Is your name meant to be na'vi? If so, y never behaves like a vowel so either ì or i should be used instead.

2. No we don't have words yet but we can work some of them out. We're not sure how the na'vi value things at all yet so precious would be very difficult to translate unless you mean it more like the precioso as 'pretty' in which case sevin would fit. Gift is hard to do but would probably be the instrument of giving, sätìng. Lastly, a blessing would be very difficult to translate but one could do it if you take into account the way neytiri talks about the omen of the atokirina' on Jake, she describes it merely as aungia, an omen so, given her positive reaction, I imagine that aungia has more positive connotations than does omen nì'ìnglìsì.

3. I love you is "nga yawne lu oer" literally, you beloved are to me.

[Tanhì’unilyu]

Irayo for the correction on 'y' in my chosen name. Yes, it's meant to be Na'vi, and I didn't know about y not being a vowel. I've fixed it now.

And also, irayo for the help with the word substitutes. These will help me greatly with my fanfic.

Much appreciated!

[Tikawng Näkyu]

Kaltxi.
"We're not sure how the na'vi value things at all", probably should nix that idea.
I'm a total noob, but maybe he can find/create a word for gift around the scene where her father dies and made it a point to pass on his bow. It wasn't as a badge of office either, nor as a crown. It was an offering of love from father to child, even though he gave her the admonition to protect the people. She couldn't be both ruler and mystic, thats just wrong; since they must be a "mated pair"; and would lead to questions of auto-eroticism.
Good luck with your writing.

[kewnya txamew'itan]

Kaltxi.
"We're not sure how the na'vi value things at all", probably should nix that idea.
I'm a total noob, but maybe he can find/create a word for gift around the scene where her father dies and made it a point to pass on his bow. It wasn't as a badge of office either, nor as a crown. It was an offering of love from father to child, even though he gave her the admonition to protect the people. She couldn't be both ruler and mystic, thats just wrong; since they must be a "mated pair"; and would lead to questions of auto-eroticism.
Good luck with your writing.

When he gave Neytiri the bow I believe his line is:

tìhawnu sivi omatikayaru

With no reference to the gift of the bow.

[omängum fra'uti]

Gift is hard to do but would probably be the instrument of giving, sätìng.

An instrument of an action is something you use to do that action.  You don't use a gift to give something to someone, the gift IS what you give.

[Kì'eyawn]

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When he gave Neytiri the bow I believe his line is:

tìhawnu sivi omatikayaru

With no reference to the gift of the bow.

I was just watching the movie with my roommate.  The captions say, "Take...my...bow" at the beginning of his line—although i can't actually make out what the verb is.  And then he clearly says, Omatikayaru tìhawnu sivi.

[omängum fra'uti]

Tskoti munge *something*

The third word I can't make out over Neytiri's sobs.

http://wiki.learnnavi.org/index.php?title=Na%27vi_from_Avatar_Movie

[kewnya txamew'itan]

Gift is hard to do but would probably be the instrument of giving, sätìng.

An instrument of an action is something you use to do that action.  You don't use a gift to give something to someone, the gift IS what you give.

I thought of that, but a gift is an essential part of what the instrument of giving would be although sätìng would also encompass a lot more, possibly including the act of exchanging gifts as well. As I said, it is very hard to work out what gift would be, you could use a passive a gerund I guess tìtawnìng though.

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When he gave Neytiri the bow I believe his line is:

tìhawnu sivi omatikayaru

With no reference to the gift of the bow.

I was just watching the movie with my roommate.  The captions say, "Take...my...bow" at the beginning of his line—although i can't actually make out what the verb is.  And then he clearly says, Omatikayaru tìhawnu sivi.

I forgot that bit. Beginning to wish I wasn't waiting for the version with extra footage and special features.