Senjecas - Chapter 2b - The Youths
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Pronunciation table
(labial) |
riisűko (dental) |
muitűko (alveolar) |
vainűko (palatal) |
ṡ̨uuše̋nos (vowels with प) |
nı̋þo ṡ̨uuše̋nos (weak vowels) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| 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 |
- The firstborn was especially skilled with the javelin and could hurl one through the eye sockets of a ram's skull at three hundred paces.
- He was called Nestu by the People, he whose javelin brings death.
- The younger was known as Athnor, swift arrow, because of his skill with the bow and arrow.
- He could bring down a stag in full flight with but one shot.
- Both were comely and, but for their coloring, images one of the other.
- Yet they were not reflections in their behavior.
- Nestu was a good-natured youth, skilled in the customs of the People, courteous to his elders, eager to be of help to others.
- Athnor was a contrary sort, not evil, but sullen, not given to laughter, preferring to be alone, often undoing the work of his brother without intention.
- And yet they loved each other as brothers should.
- In their fifteenth year, as the cold winds began to blow and the flocks and herds were to be led off to the sheltered pasturage, Damvelu said to Talma,
- "They are now of age and it is time that we fulfilled our promise to them and give them their sister to wife."
- "You are right, husband," she replied.
- Ever since the birth of her daughter, truly her father's child, she had looked forward to this day.
- She knew that the boys were ready, even if Athnor was still a little wild, and she knew that her daughter Sulzi would be as happy with them as wife as she was as sister.
- Sulzi had been part of their play as children and had only recently left their company to learn her duties as a woman of the People.
- "You do well to join them now that they may set up their own kurgan before the snowstorm."
