What do these words mean?

Started by Neytiri Na'Vi, May 14, 2010, 04:26:19 PM

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Neytiri Na'Vi

What does "tswivayon" mean? And what does "livu" mean?
Irayo, Neytiri.

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Quote from: Naytiri on May 14, 2010, 04:26:19 PMWhat does "tswivayon" mean? And what does "livu" mean?

These are verbs which have the subjunctive infix (Na'vi doesn't just have prefixes and suffixes, but infixes — they go into the middle of a word in various fixed locations).  We use angles around infixes, so your words are:

tsw‹iv›ayon, the verb tswayon "to fly"
l‹iv›u, the verb lu "to be"

Neytiri Na'Vi

Irayo, Neytiri.