Ressurection Day greeting

Started by `Eylan Ayfalulukanä, April 24, 2011, 10:18:58 PM

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`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

In honor of today being Ressurection day, I am presenting a couple of ideas here for consideration by other people of the same mindset.

We have all heard or used this greeting:

Oe (Good morning, etc.) The Lord has risen!
Nga He has risen indeed!

So, here is my attempt at translating this.

Eyktan (Fko) lu rerey
Po lu nìngay rerey

Na'vi is sorely lacking in terms that might be usable for 'risen', so I substituted the idea of being alive.
The fko is optional and kind of redundant, but it seems to have a place here.

Thoughts??

Yawey ngahu!
pamrel si ro [email protected]

Lora Syulang

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The words ke, 'ì'awn, and kerusey, come to mind here. 'ì'awn is to remain , stay. Is that to reamain/stay in a place, remain/stay in state of being, or can we have more than one application to this word???  :-\   

`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

Quote from: Lora Syulang on April 25, 2011, 06:58:43 AM
The words ke, 'ì'awn, and kerusey, come to mind here. 'ì'awn is to remain , stay. Is that to reamain/stay in a place, remain/stay in state of being, or can we have more than one application to this word???  :-\   

I am assuming here you are thinking about a construction like

Eyktan (Fko) ke `ì`awn kerusey
Po lu nìngay rerey

or perhaps
Po lu nìngay ke (`ì`awn) kerusey

rusey and kerusey are adjectives. Without a noun in there somewhere, they are kind of awkward. Perhaps ke `ì`awn Po kerusey might work. This is why I used rerey which is a verb, and works here kind of like what I understand a stative verb to be.

Is this an improvement?

Eyktan ke `ì`awn Po kerusey
Lu nìngay ke Po kerusey


Yawey ngahu!
pamrel si ro [email protected]

Lora Syulang

Srane. I was not so sure of the proper way to put that, so I only listed the words.
I am still shaky on the rules of proper sentence construction therefore I wouldn't know if there is any mistakes, but I like it!  ;D