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kewnya txamew'itan

Quote from: Txepäsiyu on January 20, 2010, 01:54:13 PM
"Particle for negative imperatives".  Ok, back to the references to see what that means.  :-[

I always matched rä'ä to "don't. Assuming I am not off base, "don't" being the contraction for "do not", is a particle?



The main place that that doesn't work is "txopu rä'ä si tsamsiyu" where if it meant don't you'd expect the si to be dropped so that definition  has limitations.




Ma taronyu, shouldn't yawm be a verb/adjective (although verb makes more sense)? Frommer uses tìyawn as a noun (I feel your love for the language IIRC) and so when we take the tì- off we should have a verb or adjective ko?
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Kiliyä

If it's a particle, you'd expect that construction, srak?  Like ke is a particle, as in say "txopu ke si tsamsiyu."
Peu sa'nokyä ayoengyä?  Pefya ayoeng poeru kìte'e sayi?
Pefya ayoengìl poeti hayawnu, na poel ayoengit hawnu?

What of our mother?  How shall we serve her?  How shall we protect her as she protects us?

roger

There is no word "yawn". According to Frommer, the root is yawne "beloved". The e drops in the derivation of tìyawn.

Taronyu


kewnya txamew'itan

Quote from: roger on January 21, 2010, 02:32:44 AM
There is no word "yawn". According to Frommer, the root is yawne "beloved". The e drops in the derivation of tìyawn.

Ahh, ok, that explains it. I missed the start of the thread and 11 pages is quite a lot to read through.  :D

In that case would the verb be yawne si (to make someone beloved)? Also, might this need a genitive (A makes B C's beloved)?
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roger

Quote from: kawngä mungeyu on January 21, 2010, 12:49:46 PM
Quote from: roger on January 21, 2010, 02:32:44 AM
There is no word "yawn". According to Frommer, the root is yawne "beloved". The e drops in the derivation of tìyawn.

Ahh, ok, that explains it. I missed the start of the thread and 11 pages is quite a lot to read through.  :D

In that case would the verb be yawne si (to make someone beloved)? Also, might this need a genitive (A makes B C's beloved)?

Started a new thread w answers from Frommer on both "I love you" and the si construction.

kewnya txamew'itan

Under pamtseo (music) you've listed it as derived from pam (music) tseo (art) whilst in the entry for pam you define it as sound.

I wouldn't normally notice but someone used pamtseo and, when I looked it up I found this.

Irayo in advance.
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NeotrekkerZ

Quote from: kawngä mungeyu on January 22, 2010, 05:00:25 PM
Under pamtseo (music) you've listed it as derived from pam (music) tseo (art) whilst in the entry for pam you define it as sound.

I wouldn't normally notice but someone used pamtseo and, when I looked it up I found this.

Irayo in advance.

As I understand it Pamtseo(music) is literally sound art, so pam is sound.
Rìk oe lu hufwemì, nìn fya'ot a oe tswayon!

kewnya txamew'itan

That's what I'm saying but the entry for pamtseo defines pam as music. The entry above it defines it as sound.

That's what I'm pointing out, not that pamtseo is wrong (I have no reason to think that), but that pam has been definded incorrectly in one instance (probably in the pamtseo entry).
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NeotrekkerZ

Rìk oe lu hufwemì, nìn fya'ot a oe tswayon!

Mirri

Found another discrepancy. Is the verb "be responsible" kllfriyo' or kllfrivo'?

The Na'vi pocket guide has the y version, and both have the IPA spelling different too, so neither one looks like a typo.
Ngaya poanìl new mune 'uti: hrrap sì uvan. Talun poanìl new ayfoeti -- ayfo lu lehrrap ayu leuvan.

roger

Quote from: Mirri on January 22, 2010, 06:59:07 PM
Found another discrepancy. Is the verb "be responsible" kllfriyo' or kllfrivo'?

The Na'vi pocket guide has the y version, and both have the IPA spelling different too, so neither one looks like a typo.


Good catch! An old copy error, it would seem.

The SG has kllfrivo'. Since that syllable is underlined, it's easy to mix up v & y.

Kiliyä

Ma nawma tsmukan, would you mind updating your sig to let people know what version we're up to?  That'd be really helpful!
Peu sa'nokyä ayoengyä?  Pefya ayoeng poeru kìte'e sayi?
Pefya ayoengìl poeti hayawnu, na poel ayoengit hawnu?

What of our mother?  How shall we serve her?  How shall we protect her as she protects us?

Taronyu

As for kllfivo': you'll notice I have the v version. There were a few copy errors I caught. That's one of them.

Fixed pamtseo. Do i really have to update my sig? That would be annoying, haha.

We're up to 7.017, right now.

Kiliyä

Nah, you don't have to.  It'd just save me some time, but cost you.  And I don't mind downloading it, pressing Ctrl+Home and having a look.  Nevermind.  Oh, and the Version number at the top of the doc says 7.16.  Can you Save As and put the version number in the file name?
Peu sa'nokyä ayoengyä?  Pefya ayoeng poeru kìte'e sayi?
Pefya ayoengìl poeti hayawnu, na poel ayoengit hawnu?

What of our mother?  How shall we serve her?  How shall we protect her as she protects us?

Taronyu

I'm still uploading it.  ;D The one up is still 7.016, haha.

Right. Think I'm doine editing for now. 7.021 is the new version. Go get it.

kewnya txamew'itan

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Erimeyz

Quote from: Kiliyä on January 23, 2010, 07:21:04 AM
Can you Save As and put the version number in the file name?

Please don't.  Or if you do, be sure to save as two different files: one with the version in the filename, and one that's just NaviDictionary.pdf.  There's too many links pointing to http://content.learnnavi.org/taronyu/NaviDictionary.pdf to have to update those links every time you release an update (i.e. every two to four hours). :)

  - Eri

Kiliyä

I realised that as soon as I posted it... ah well...
Peu sa'nokyä ayoengyä?  Pefya ayoeng poeru kìte'e sayi?
Pefya ayoengìl poeti hayawnu, na poel ayoengit hawnu?

What of our mother?  How shall we serve her?  How shall we protect her as she protects us?

Lance R. Casey

(Who the nang is this? See here and here.)

I've skimmed the backlog but since I'm new here there might be some things in the comment list below that have already been brought up, but here goes:


  • a
    The definition "pn. which, that" seems a bit shallow to me. How about a more strict mention of subordination?
  • atokirina'
    The last syllable is underlined, but in the movie Neytiri clearly stresses the penultimate one several times (with a lateral realization of the flap). This should(?) also be enough to mark the stress in rina'.
  • ean
    Confirmed as an adjective (oeyä eana txìm atsawl).
  • 'ewan
    Wrong section (should be under apostrophe).
  • fahew
    Should be noun, not verb (oeri ta peyä fahew akewong ontu teya längu).
  • ftia
    Verb (ft<ol>ia in Norm's line).
  • fyape
    I think (interrogative) adverb is more accurate than conjunction for this. Also, the use of the word "allomorph" in this entry as well as those of the other pe+-modified words seems inaccurate to me, seeing as how these are not single morphemes, but words consisting of two different morphemes. "Variant" or "variant form" fits better.
  • hapxì
    Noun (Na'viyä luyu hapxì).
  • kehe/srane
    How about calling these interjections?
  • nì'aw
    Adverb, not adjective.
  • nì'it
    Adverb, not noun: "a little, slightly".
  • -ri
    What evidence is there for calling this an adposition? Isn't it just a suffix?
  • -ru
    Same as above.
  • rutxe
    This can't be a verb given how it's used (spivaw oeti rutxe, ma oeyä eylan); I suggest particle instead.
  • san/sìk
    The first is classified as a noun and the second as a verb, whereas I think they are in fact correlative particles (one of which can be dropped at either end of the sentence as per WP).
  • tìfyawìntxu
    "Guidance", not "guide".
  • tsìvol
    Repetition of "thirty-two".
  • txele
    Noun, not verb.
  • yawne
    Adjective, not noun.
  • z<er>a'u
    Why does this have its own entry?

Additions

  • trram
    "yesterday" (attested in adverbial function)
  • -ur
    allomorph of -ru and -r (from the recent letter)
  • I don't know how many "si-verbs" you want to include as such, but other attested ones are tìkangkem si "work" and tsap'alute si "apologize".

More generally, I note with some surprise that i and ì are treated as the same letter in the lists, as are a and ä. This is flat-out wrong, obviously, but supposedly due to automatic sorting of some kind. Finally, a number of ìs have somehow gone missing from the changelog entry for v7, at least in my reader.

P.S. Ngeyä tìkangkemìri oe ngaru seiyi irayo nìtxan! Lì'fyari leNa'vi tìyawn ngeyä law lu.

// Lance R. Casey