Senjecas - Chapter 3a - The Gifts

Pronunciation table

peműko (labial)								riisűko (dental)								muitűko (alveolar)								vainűko (palatal)							ṡ̨uuše̋nos (vowels with प)								nı̋þo ṡ̨uuše̋nos (weak vowels)
p	b	f	v	m̃	m			t	d	þ	ð	ɫ	l			ṡ	ż	s	z	r	n			k	g	x	ƣ	h	ȝ			š	s̨			i	e	a	ɔ	o	u			ĭ	ĕ	ŭ
प	ब	फ	भ	म़	म			त	द	थ	ध	ल़	ल			च	ज	स	स़	र	न			क	ग	क़	ग़	ह	य			स्व	स्य			इ ई पि पी	ए एै पे पै	अ आ प पा	ऒ ॵ पॊ पॏ	ओ औ पो पौ	उ ऊ पु पू			पं	पऺ	पॅ
/p/	/b/	/ɸ/	/β/	/m̥/	/m/			/t/	/d/	/θ/	/ð/	/l̥/	/l/			/ʦ/	/ʣ/	/s/	/z/	/ɾ̥/	/n/			/k/	/g/	/ç/	/ʝ/	/j̊/	/j/			/sʷ/	/sʲ/			/i/	/e/	/ä/	/ɒ/	/o/	/u/			/ɪ/	/ɛ/	/ʊ/

Glossing abbreviations

1s/p = 1st person singular/plural	ABL = ablative suffix	COL = collective	F = feminine	INT = intensive prefix	PRV = privative prefix	SUP = supine
2s/p = 2nd person singular/plural	ABS = absolutive (an unmarked modifying adjective)	DES = desiderative	FRQ = frequentative	LAT = lative suffix	PST = past	TRZ = transitivizer
3 = 3rd person	ADV = adverb	DIM = diminutive	FUT = future	LOC = locative suffix	REV = reversive	VOC = vocative particle
A(.s/p) = accusative (singular/plural)	AG = agent	ELIS = elision	IMP = imperative	M = masculine	Q = interrogative particle	YNG = young
G(.s/p) = genitive (singular/plural)	AP = agent (active) participle	ELT = elative	INC = inchoative	OCC = occupation suffix	QUOT = direct quotation
N(.s/p) = nominative (singular/plural)	AUG = augmentative	EP = epenthesis	IND = indicative	PP = patient (past) participle	RPR = recent perfective
V(.s/p) = vocative (singular/plural)	CAUS = causative	EQU = equative degree	INS = instrument	PRF = perfect	SBJ = subjunctive

Chapter 3 - The Gifts - dőőos दौ॓ओस्

• So a wedding festival was held.
• All put on their finest woolen and leathern garments and adorned themselves in gold and silver and bronze.
• Some could parade their skill with the wearing of the fur of beaver and pole cat and white weasel.
• Some had journeyed far to the forests and returned with the hides of the great woodland cattle.
• Damvelu had prepared calves and lambs on the spit to be served with barley bread and butter,
• all washed down with an ample supply of mead.
• Contests of skill were held. Because they were the guests of honor, the twins did not participate
• and so were able to see who were the second best among the men.
• Competitions were held in foot-racing, archery, javelin-throwing, battle-axe tossing, and wrestling.
• Many went home that night richer by a calf or a lamb.
• When the contests were over, as the men rested before the beginning of the feast,
• he came once again to the village.
• Talma saw him first or, rather, felt him coming.
• The women saw her leave the spits and followed her to the edge of the village,
• positioning themselves at a respectful distance behind her.
• "Greetings, sister-wife!" he said as he drew his animal alongside her.
• "How fare our children and yours?"
• "As you can see, Father, they have grown up well, strong as the oak and supple as the birch.
• Today is their wedding day. We are giving them Sulzi to wife as you have asked.
• I knew that you would come today."
• She stared up into his eyes and remembered and felt her heart race.
• "You have not grown old, Talma.
• As I pass overhead every day I look down at you and you do not change.
• I see you assisting at the births of men and beast,
• and I see you lay them in the ground when their time is done. Do you never tire?"
• "To watch new life is never tiring, Father, but observing death is a great sadness.
• Someday it will be I whom they will lay in the ground.
• I will return to the earth from which I came."
• "Talma, you they will never lie in the ground.
• I have come to assure you of that.
• I have seen the moon looking at our daughter and I have known her scheme,
• but it will come to naught, for you and I have prepared her downfall.
• Not for much longer will she shine so brightly every night casting her silvern beams of death among men.
• For the present let us rejoice in this celebration. The noble Damvelu approaches."
• Damvelu had seen the women leave the spits and then seen the reason.
• He and the men came from the field of contests.
• He stood beside his wife to greet the traveler. "Welcome again to our village.
• Will you join us in the wedding celebration of our children?"
• "Thank you for your invitation. I have come to join in the celebration, bringing gifts for the grooms and bride."
• He dismounted and approached the bride.
• "First, the gift for the bride," he said and placed around her neck a golden chain from which hung an amber, set in gold.
• Crystalline and clear, it shone with the color of the sun.
• On close inspection, which was already taking place by the women, could be seen the finest tracings of a bee.
• "I give you this, daughter, not only as an ornament to enhance your fair beauty, but as an aid in time of need.
• Never remove it from around your neck. The time of its use will be apparent to you."

Senjecas - Chapter 3b - The Gifts