Conlang Relay 15/Labarion

by Lars Finsen

Labarion is a reconstruction of Gaulish

The Text

Ida-sios anassaios essi peillateios.

Pie scoxtin glessin! Ne scociont eron britacu. Ne gniiont accerdis. Vrexont inti gutus eion oinicu vogaron.

Ne vercanontri scoxtin glesson inti vissusaitura advedatus, extos suelontor escomediatu ambiollon, ad sentin ne sanin, cuti suelta au ejobi buet.

Scocint vellu aissobi allobi. Allobo scociaunobo ne essi elves cerdias eiobi. Suelontor eti lamovertont duci sueliontor ex verpennu. Aibait assaios. Cretiu crodiu eri isselovirobi ixobi buont sua cainis. Ne allon ategneiont, bessugneiont aivi somon.

Smooth English

This stuff is difficult to understand.

(I suspect this sentence has been included by accident.)

See the holy dance! They are not dancing after a design. They don't have musical instruments. They make sounds only with their voices.

They are not taught the holy dance with prescribed lessons, but move at random everywhere, in no particular direction, wherever they want to.

They dance better than any others. There is no other dancer who has more skill than them. They move and gesture seemingly aimlessly. It seems easy. I can hardly believe that such low people can be so beautiful. Ever again they do nothing else, always they are doing the same.

Grammar

Nominal morphology

acc. sg

-in, -on

gen. sg

-ias

abl. sg

-u

instr. sg

-u

nom. pl

-ii

acc. pl

-is, -us, -a

abl. pl

-obi

dat. pl

-obo

Verbal morphology

1s present indicative

-iu

3p present indicative

-ont, -int

3s present subjunctive

-ait

2s imperative

-e

gerundive

-teios

3p (medio)passive

-ontri

past participle

-atos

3p deponent present indicative

-ontor

3p deponent present subjunctive

-iontor

passive impersonal

-ar

Vocabulary

accerdis

musical instrument

ad

towards

advedat

prescribe, recommend

aibet

appear

aissus

people

aivi

always

allos

other, another thing

ambiollon

everywhere

anassaios

difficult

assaios

easy

ategneiet

redo, do again and again

au

from, away from (+abl.)

bessugneiet

habitually do

britacon

design, plan, mindfulness

cainis

beautiful

cerda

ability, skill

cretit

believe

crodios

hard, difficult

cuti

where

duci

as, like, as if

eion

their

eiobi

them, abl.

elves

much, many

eri

about (+abl)

eron

after, according to (+abl)

escomediatos

random, arbitrary, without direction

eti

and

ex

without

extos

but

glessos

holy

gniet

know, have, use

gutus

voice

ida

this

inti

with, using (+acc)

isseloviros

lowly person, plebeian, (white) thrash

ixos

such

lamovertet

gesture

ne

no, not

oinicos

alone

peillat

gather, understand

piet

look, see

sanis

different, special, particular

scociaunos

dancer

scocit

dance, v

scoxta

dance, n

sentis

way, path, course, direction

sios

emphatic pronoun

somos

same, the same

sua

so

suelet

move, turn

suelta

movement, turn

vellos

better

vercanet

teach

verpennon

finish, goal, target

vissusaituron

lesson, training, exercise

vogaron

sound, tone

vreget

make, do

Forms used of the verb be:

3s pres ind

essi

3s pres subj

buet

3p pres subj

buont

Ways to put things:

be from + x.abl

x wishes

x.nom y.abl

x than y

be + x.dat

x has

adj.instr

adverb