Second Linguifex Relay/Fén Ghír

Here follows the Fén Ghír translation of the Second Linguifex Relay

Tel Ra Chím Ít

Cún gharuc cúghél me cúdhéna dí cur ír ít ba dénil fhabhena tén ló.

Tel bhoc me ghal ébeci bhoc me bolin cór ír ít. Ech té bheghal phédhím cóbh ghal?

On bhoc me gon pon alon na elin, nólen ír. On té chín me lú fhén, lúr nég dó cun íréda me pédhím.

En cím én con me égalibh ne cím ít tén ló.

On té dol bér ghél, lé bhoc del dí me fabhen bhe béden.

Gloss

cún- [Aux.] Ought to/Should, Law, Rule, Promise

garuc - Protect, Defend

cúghél - [Neologism] Rule of the People, Mob-rule, Democracy

me - Preposition which precedes Nominative/Subject

cúdhén - Ruler

Dí - P1 Plural[We/Us/Our]

cur - during

ír - land, earth, territory, world

ít - [Relative determiner] This. Also used in place of "The" which Fén lacks.

ba - Preposition which prescedes possessed item. [Sort of a reverse genitive]

dénil- Heavy, Trying, Difficult

fhabhen- Time

tén- According to

ló- P3 Plural[They/Them/Their]

Tel- [Aux.] May, Could

bhoc- Come

ghal- Sun, Day

ébeci- When [Conj]

bolin- Weak, Weakness

cór- Over, On

ech- Negative Interogative Copula [Isn't...?]

té- to be

bheghal- most

phédhím- dark

cóbh- before

On- If... then. [Conjuntion that appears at the beginning of a sentance to mark that a sentance will have two clauses]

gon- [figuratively] Death

pon- for, because of

alon- man

na- and

elin- woman

nólen- to stand, to remain

ír- earth

cín- birth, born

lú- many

fén- people

lúr- far

nég- drift

dó- from

cun- like

íréd- cloud

en- negative copula [not]

cím- know, see

én- one

con- thing

égalibh- those who [relative determiner, plural]

ne- subordinate negative copula [not]

dol-strong

bér- noble, great

gél- nation, people

lé- go, aux. marking future tense

del-to

dí-us

béden- peace

"Ra Chím"- To Recognize

Grammatical Notes

Some of the alternate potential translations are cut out because alternate meanings would have you scratching you head [lú is literally "three" but can mean "many" and similarly "Gon" which means waking is a figurative form of "Death".

Fén has a VOS order which leads to a lot of wierd innovations, particularly one would not be ill adviced to check out Clauses on the wiki page.

the -a suffix marks plural, while certain initial consonants of nouns and verbs are lenited [b->bh, d->dh] if preceded by an adjective, an auxiliary verb or an adverb.

Prepositions can be considered as case markers in some ways and fill niches that English prepositions do not, such as marking the subject of a verb, or an object which is possessed. It is important to note that these precede both noun and any related adjectives. Sentances or phrases without "me" in it are to be read as passive.

Copulas are wierd but typically are marked at the beginning of a sentance, they fill the role of positive, negative and conjunctions. I avoided the wierdest case here at the expense of directness. If you are having serious trouble, consult the page.

Fén does not have a definite or indefinite article, instead "ít" or "this" can be used in the place of it.

A final note which isn't covered on the page [though it gets a gloss in vocative] is that personal pronouns can be preceded with nouns much like determiners. This helps specify the subject of the pronoun more clearly and serves as similar function to "We soldiers" or "You, girl" in English.