First Linguifex Relay/Cwengâr

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Saola Peadid

Negw lho shŷc'hâmonaff nâr,
Cwec'hŷrh lho hatâr c'hec'hŷraff,
Cwec'hŷrh lho c'harhôn sogwôran,
Tepâle rynŷnaff ffa hashâff
Cwemar tegw nug'hôn
Cwemacwen c'han.
Negw fôffan
Tepâle rynŷnaff ffa hashâff
Temerhôlh C'hetŷl
Cwâm lho henâm hâtaff.

Dictionary

Negw: to drift [particularly on water], to be propelled gently, to come or go without effort or resistance.

Lho: 3rd Person Singular; He or Him.

tŷc'hâmon: a dreamer [masc].

âr: land, realm.

Cwec'hŷrh: to sing, to recite.

Târ: To Act, To Do, To Move.

Cwec'hŷr: a song, a tune, a chant.

C'harhôn: Death.

Togwôran: An Oak, A Cane.

Ffâle: To Fly.

Rynŷn: Literally Loving Daughter, usually used in plural form to signify a young couple or young couples in general.

Ffa: With, Alongside [fem].

Ashâ: A bird.

Cwemar: Cold

Tegw: Soft, Gentle, Cute.

Ug'hôn : A cut, a mark, a wound.

Cwemacwen: Frozen, Icy.

Cwen: Water, Sea, Ocean.

Fôffan: Time.

Temerhôlh: Silent, Quiet

Cwetŷl: The God of the Winter amongst other things, Judge of Mortals, the moon is said to be his lost eye.

Vastaa: a personification of winter, Father Winter.

Cwâm: To See, To Know.

enâm: hidden

âta: those.

Notes

Mutation is critical; A soft mutation [towards fricative] will occur when a word is a subject rather than an object, A hard [towards nasal] will occur when a word is a possessed object. The genitive and possession is marked in the possessed object with a hard mutation or the addition of an "n". A "h" can be added to the beginning of a word beginning with a vowel to mark it as a subject, though this will occur in when the word before ends with a vowel regardless. This Summarizes possible forms and meaning nicely.

Word order is primarily VSO with modifiers coming before the head. No exceptions.

Conjugation is fairly simple, the only case of it in this is "Te-" [past]

Some handy derivational morphemes

• -on and "-yn": turns a verb into a noun that carries out the verb action, e.g. tŷc'hâmon ('dreamer').
• a- : creates a negative version of the verb, e.g. atâr ('to idle/to not act') from a + târ