Mipa 'Upxare leMokri Frapofpi ta K. Pawl mì Srr 'Rrtayä

[wm.annis]

A chunk of words created for an Earth Day message.  Some are Prrton's creations, some Frommer's, all Frommer approved.  

~~~ Fmawn asawnung (Prrton) ~~~

Ma Frapo, Kaltxì

Even though he is insanely busy (will be interviewed by CNN Headline News on Thursday), K. Pawl has made the time to send everyone an Earth Day message as a Guest Author on the new Na'vi blog at MaSempul.org. It has some interesting tid-bits of information and vocabulary in it that I think you'll like.

Ma oeyä eylan,

Fìtrrmì letsranten—Trr ’Rrtayä—new oe pivlltxe ayngaru san kaltxì sìk ulte tivìng ayngar lì’ut a tì’efumì oeyä lu lor frato mì lì’fya leNa’vi: meoauniaea. Fìlì’uä ral lu tìme’em sì tìrusey mì hifkey na Nawma Sa’nokä hapxì, ’uo a fpi rey’eng Eywa’evengmì ’Rrtamì tsranten nìtxan awngaru nìwotx.

Ngaytxoa, nìawnomum ke lolu oer nìkeftxo mì soka srr ayskxom letam fte lì’fyari awngeyä tìkangkem sivi. Slä lu oeru fmawno asìltsan: ye’rìn ’ìyi’a sänume a tsari kllfro’ oe; mawkrr layeiu oer krr nì’ul fte ngivop aylì’ut sì tsayfnesänumvit a tsun frapor srung sivi fte nivume sì ziverok nìswey.

Tsakrrvay, ayngeyä tìmweypeyri irayo seiyi oe, ulte fìtrrä ftxozäri, sìlpey oe, ayngaru prrte’ livu.

Kìyevame ulte Eywa ayngahu.

ta Pawl

Spoiler

My friends,

On this important day—Earth Day—I want to say hello to you and present to you the word that, in my opinion, is the most beautiful in the Na’vi language: meoauniaea. The meaning of this word is “harmony, living in the world as part of the Great Mother,” something that matters a lot to all of us for the sake of The Balance of Life on both Pandora and Earth.

My apologies: As you know, in recent days I have not had sufficient opportunity to work on our language. But I have some good news. My teaching responsibilities will soon end; after that I will have more time to create words and the kinds of lessons that can help everyone best learn and remember.

In the meantime, I thank you for your patience, and I hope you enjoy today’s celebration.

Goodbye and Eywa be with you.

Paul

The audio is here and you can download it and listen over and over again while your DVD and/or Blu-Ray players are "rewinding."  

  http://masempul.org/blog/

  Tstxo postìyä lu «Trr ’Rrtayä»

fìFtxozä leFpom!

ta Prrton

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meoauniaea	harmony, living at one with nature	N
rey'eng	The Balance of Life	N
tìme'em	harmony (general sense)	N
fnel (fne-)	kind, type	N/PReN
	Fnel can stand alone or work with
	another noun in the genitive to
	to show the relationship:
	tsafnel syulangä = "that kind of flower".
	Fne- (does not cause lenition) does the
	same thing as a PREnoun:
	tsafnesyulang = "that type of flower".
	K. Pawl is thinking about how to flesh
	out all of the permutations with fra-, me-,
	pxe-, and the ramifications of constructs
	with the indefinite suffix -o, etc. For the
	time being, the following are approved:
	- fìfne-, fayfne-
	- tsafne-, tsayfne-
	Note also: fne- ekxan »»» fnekxan
fnepe / pefnel	which kind	Q
zerok	remember	V    (z•er•ok)
tswa'	forget	V    (tsw••a')
tì'efu	feeling	N
tì'efumì oeyä	in my opinion	PHRS
maweypey	be patient	V    (maweyp••ey)
tìmweypey	patience	N
lemweypey	patient	ADJ
nìmweypey	patiently	ADV
tsakrrvay	until then, in the meantime	ADV
ohakx	hungry	ADJ
tìohakx	hunger	N
’efu ohakx	be hungry	PHRS
tsyosyu	food made from flour	N
vey	food of animal origin; flesh	N
Fìtrr lu trrpeve?	What day is it today?	Q
pxeSrrmrrvam	Thursday of 3 weeks previous	N/ADV
meSrrmrrvam	Thursday of 2 weeks previous	N/ADV
Trrmrrvam	Thursday of the previous week	N/ADV
Trrmrrve	Thursday (of the current week)	N/ADV
Trrmrrvay	Thursday of the next week coming up	N/ADV
meSrrmrrvay	Thursday of 2 weeks out	N/ADV
pxeSrrmrrvay	Thursday 3 weeks out	N/ADV
	(standard paradigm for all days)
	If it is Friday or Saturday and one wants to
	reference Sunday coming up in one or two
	days, it is fine to simply say Trr'awve if the
	context is made clear by a verb tense, etc.
pxiswawam	just a moment ago	ADV
pxiset	right now	ADV
pxiswaway	in just a second from now	ADV
pxiye'rìn	immediately (but not as soon as pxiswaway)	ADV
pxisre	right before	ADP+
pximaw	right after	ADP-
sok	recent	ADJ
’awlie	once (in the past)	ADV
	Unlike 'awlo, melo for instances that
	may occur now or in the future,
	'awlie refers to instances (1 specifically)
	in the past. The ramifications for
	extension to reference general experience
	in the past (et al) are under consideration by
	Karyu Pawl.
tìkxey	incorrectness, mistakeness	N
tìkxey si	mess up / to foul / do wrong	V
ngaru tìkxey	You're wrong.	PHRS
tìyawr	correctness	N
ngaru tìyawr	You're right.	PHRS
tìketeng	difference	N
fpomtokx	health (physical)	N
lefpomtokx	healthy	ADJ
kelfpomtokx	unhealthy	ADJ
keftxo	unhappy, upset, How sad!	ADJ, CONV
nìkeftxo	unfortunately, sadly	ADV
sraw	painful	ADJ
tìsraw	pain	N
txampxì	majority, most, large part	N
vurvi	summary, synopsis	N
sänumvi	lesson	N
	-vi is in the broad sense a marker
	for terms that are in some way in a
	diminutive relationship to a "larger"
	concept, but there is no 100% standard
	expectation for what the term in -vi will
	mean. (cf: tì-, nì- (and to an extent le-))
letam	sufficient	ADJ
letsranten	important	ADJ
nìswey	optimally, best	ADV
nìpxi	especially, pointedly, unambiguously	ADV
	Note that nìpxi implies a sense of inten-
	sification, focus, clarity and not the adjectival
	sense of "being sharp" per se.

[Swoka Swizaw]

Jeezus Christ Monkeyballs.

This is HUGE. Meoauniaea - finally. Hooray for Earth Day.

[Plumps]

I can only second that!!!

Thanks sooooo much for sharing – finally words for »forget« and »remember« … lu fì’u na fraftxozä ’awsiteng

txana irayo

edit: just two questions to start with (I know I’m insufferable )
I presume »BW« = Prrton
What’s »PReN«?

[wm.annis]

What’s »PReN«?

Prenoun (not pronoun), I suspect — things like fì-, tsa-, pe- and so on — modifiers that are attached to their noun.  It's a term used a lot in Algonquian linguistics, but I've used it in email to Pawl in regard to these affixes in Na'vi.

[Plumps]

Thanks … never heard of this classification but if it’s used … ’uo nivume fratrr

pxisre; right before; ADP; BW
pximaw; right after; ADP; BW

Am I right in suspecting that these adpositions behave like their originals? sre+ and maw– and that they are to be understood temporally?

[roger]

Typo in syllabification of sänumvi.

[okrìsti]

awlie was given as ’awlie (Ɂaw.ˈli.ɛ) here – so no glottal stop then?

[roger]

awlie was given as ’awlie (Ɂaw.ˈli.ɛ) here – so no glottal stop then?

No, just a typo. Initial apostrophes tend to get lost when using spread sheets.

[roger]

Am I right in suspecting that these adpositions behave like their originals? sre+ and maw– and that they are to be understood temporally?

I would assume that they are temporal, since Na'vi doesn't have much temporal-spatial metaphor. Good question as to whether pxisre causes lenition. I can only assume it does.

[NeotrekkerZ]

Too weird.  I always thought meoauniaea would be a good word for harmonious, and there it is as harmony.

[Kì'eyawn]

Too weird.  I always thought meoauniaea would be a good word for harmonious, and there it is as harmony.

Kxawm latsu ngaru tsaheylu hu Karyu Pawl ulte fì'ut ke amomum...

Edit:  In retrospect, tsaheylu is not a good stand-in for references to being psychic.  Fì'uri ngaru tsap'alute si oe.

[Mithcoriel]

You know, Meoauniaea could be an entire chorus for a song. ^^

[NeotrekkerZ]

Too weird.  I always thought meoauniaea would be a good word for harmonious, and there it is as harmony.

Kxawm latsu ngaru tsaheylu hu Karyu Pawl ulte fì'ut ke amomum...

Edit:  In retrospect, tsaheylu is not a good stand-in for references to being psychic.  Fì'uri ngaru tsap'alute si oe.

hrh!

EDIT: 

pxiswaway; in just a second from now; ADV; BW

Is it me or would this make a great stock phrase for "Just a second!/Hold on!"?

[`Eylan Ayfalulukanä]

Some very interesting words in there! I like the word for hunger ohakx, it has a cool sound to it. The presence of tsyosyu confirms a theory that has was discussed at length during the LEP about the existence of bread-like foods. The words for weeks past and future strongly imply that there is indeed a seven day cycle of some sort on Pandora.

Thanks K. Pawl for the new words, and W. Annis for quickly getting them listed here.

[Prrton]

I think that all of your questions are now answered by the annotations that I've finally found the time to make in the original posting. If I've missed something, please let me and if I can provide insight, I certainly will try.

Happy Earth Day!

And, if you'd like to respond to K. Pawl, you can do it on the pìlok lemokri (kop fa pamrel (nìNa'vi)).

Also, if anyone wants to guest post there (with a verbal message, or even just one in writing), please let me know and I'll make you a pamrelsiyu lefrrtu with your own account. The whole thing is in Na'vi. That's the only rule other than the Koren a'Awve... Rä'ä tsat tswa' kawkrr!

[Swoka Swizaw]

I've written this in another place, but I feel is appropriate here. 'Tis my theory of another use for "-vi" that we've already seen.

If it is what I think it is, then we COULD render the word "vitra" as a c.w. of "vi-" and a contraction of tirea. All together, a soul is a small piece of [overall] spirit. (Note: I only mean this from an etymological perspective and NOT one of spiritual discussion.)

[roger]

The words for weeks past and future strongly imply that there is indeed a seven day cycle of some sort on Pandora.

I doubt it. I think this is just for humans to function, like the word for computer.

If it is what I think it is, then we COULD render the word "vitra" as a c.w. of "vi-" and a contraction of tirea. All together, a soul is a small piece of [overall] spirit.

"Vitraya" was one of Cameron's words. But this would be a great post-hoc etymology. I've suggested it to Paul.

[roger]

Wikibooks dictionaries (Na'vi-Eng & Eng-Na'vi) now updated.

[Kemaweyan]

Ke law lu oer 'awa tseng 'upxaremì:

pelun Pawl poltxe san ye'rìn 'ìyi'a sänume sìk? Pelun kea san sänumet?

[Prrton]

pxiswaway; in just a second from now; ADV; BW

Is it me or would this make a great stock phrase for "Just a second!/Hold on!"?

It would work very well for that if the implied part is "I'm going to turn away now unavoidably, but I'll be right back with you"... [pxiswaway]

So more than, "Hold on" (briefly), It's "Just a second (from now I'll be back with you)". And, to me, it sounds like the person who is asking that the other wait won't be going anywhere. They just don't have full attention to provide. If the speaker were to intend to leave briefly and come back, I'd guess they'd say «Pivey hìkrr. Tätxaw (oe) pxiye'rìn.»

«Hìkrr» by itself might work very well for what you're suggesting too, but it sounds LONGER to me than «pxiswaw».