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==Semantics== | ==Semantics== | ||
=== | === Temporal expressions === | ||
The ancient Aerans divided the day from noon to noon into one hundred '''''lammar''''' (sg. ''lamma'') of equal length, roughly 14.4 minutes long. The daytime was divided into sixteen '''''lȳrar''''' (sg. ''lȳra''), and night into four or five '''''volar''''' (sg. ''vola'') depending on the season. Time was kept on a device called a '''''lammāriun''''', a type of clock. Early ''lammāriunt'' only measured ''lammar'', and one had to consult an almanac ('''''lȳrāriun''''') to determine the length and starting time of each ''lȳra'' or ''vola'' on a given day. | |||
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| spurra sau īma lamma āmātiō vannō | |||
| hang-MID.C.3SG only one-C.NOM.SG lamma-NOM.SG market-DAT.SG go-GER-DAT | |||
| 'It only takes one ''lamma'' to get to the market}} | |||
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| iūvint te harēnae īmau lȳrau | |||
| write.PFV-3PL <nowiki>=</nowiki>1SG letter-ACC.SG one-C.ESS.SG lyra-ESS.SG | |||
| 'I wrote letters for an hour}} | |||
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| | | iūva te harēna īmārul lȳrārun | ||
| | | write.PFV-C.3SG <nowiki>=</nowiki>1SG letter-ACC.SG one-C.INSTR.SG lyra-INSTR.SG | ||
|}} | | 'I wrote the letter in an hour}} | ||
=== Possession === | === Possession === | ||