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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> a scris: > > Allright, try this for an exercise: > > Luckily I > had a printed version of your Kerno grammar > with me! ;) Wow! Now how many people carry copies of someone else's conlang grammar around with them!? :) > Anyway, I tried comparing some forms, and I > have a few problems: > > > fiusvanon le di le luns, do lis fac�s y vind > > et voun; > > Strange enough, I can find "fac�s" nowhere. Perhaps it hasn't made it into the online lexicon yet. Means "face, countenance". > > fiusvanon le di le merchoers, do lis la > > gouethes lor poures y phreg'oers; > > "la gouethes"? If this is an ordinary article, > I would rather expect "y gouethes", no? Yes. Either that or la gouetha. I think that's what I was starting with, then got confused over agreement issues. [Objects of this sort don't have to agree in number with the subjects that own them, as in English.] > > do = to, on, at > > po = at > > vor = upon > > Curious. What is the etymology of these > prepositions? do < (Celt) do < (IE) *de po(z) < (Lat) apud vor / ver < (Celt) vero < (IE) *uper Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .