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.