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The full form, '''Vasa Ahāmatya Manān Etjelletyandaljān''' is built from '''vasa''' “language, speech”, '''manān''' is the genitive form of '''mana''' "land". '''Etjelletyandaljān''' is a more difficult word to analyze. It is composed of '''etjellet-''' which is the perfective form of the transitive | The full form, '''Vasa Ahāmatya Manān Etjelletyandaljān''' is built from '''vasa''' “language, speech”, '''manān''' is the genitive form of '''mana''' "land". '''Etjelletyandaljān''' is a more difficult word to analyze. It is composed of '''etjellet-''' which is the perfective form of the transitive | ||
verb '''tjellet-''', itself derived from the noun '''tjelle''' “sky, heaven”. '''tjellet-''', then, has the meaning “to sky someone, to adore someone or something, to put someone or something on high”. '''etjelletya''', then, is the participle form “(that which is) adored, put on high”. The '''-nda-''' element is the augmentive, and the '''-lja-''' is a morpheme used to convert nouns into adjectives. '''Mana Etjelletyandalja''' is the full, poetic name for the land, meaning “the most adored or most favored land”. The final -n, with the lengthened vowel, is the genitive case marker. Besides being a poetic form, the notion of putting something or someone up on high, with connotations of putting them to the sky, works in a literal sense and refers to the magnificent mountains that dominate the skies and run the length of the land. These mountains are an important cultural and historical agent. Taken altogether, '''Vasa Ahāmatya Manān Etjelletyandaljān''' translates to “the refined language of the most revered land”. | verb '''tjellet-''', itself derived from the noun '''tjelle''' “sky, heaven”. '''tjellet-''', then, has the meaning “to sky someone, to adore someone or something, to put someone or something on high”. '''etjelletya''', then, is the participle form “(that which is) adored, put on high”. The '''-nda-''' element is the augmentive, and the '''-lja-''' is a morpheme used to convert nouns into adjectives. '''Mana Etjelletyandalja''' is the full, poetic name for the land, meaning “the most adored or most favored land”. The final '''-n''', with the lengthened vowel, is the genitive case marker. Besides being a poetic form, the notion of putting something or someone up on high, with connotations of putting them to the sky, works in a literal sense and refers to the magnificent mountains that dominate the skies and run the length of the land. These mountains are an important cultural and historical agent. Taken altogether, '''Vasa Ahāmatya Manān Etjelletyandaljān''' translates to “the refined language of the most revered land”. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||