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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

Help, friends list?

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.

[identity profile] frostfire-17.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
So I doubt that you actually *need* any of these (you mentioned in another thread that this is for work?) but if you're ready to welcome Elvish and Klingon, then I'm going for it:

Sumerian:

Welcome (or, well, greet): silim dug
Read: gu ta-de
Listen: neshtug sum
Create: dim
Explore (well, "seek" was what I could find): ki kin

Old Persian:

Couldn't find "welcome"--probably not attested
Read: pati-parsa (imperative w/final vowel long)
Listen: a-khshnau, imperative akhshnaudiy (yeah, I know. It's actually really fun to say. Really work that velar fricative!)
Create: root kar, imperative kunaudiy
Explore (closest I could get was "look"): root vaina, imperative didiy

And finally, Akkadian:

Welcome: shullumum, sg. imperative (masc) shullim, (fem) shullimi
Read: amarum, sg. imperative (masc) amur, (fem) amri
Listen: shemum, sg. imperative (masc) sheme, (fem) shemi
Create: banum, sg. imperative bini (masc, last vowel is short; fem, long)
Explore: hiatum (with--okay, the h is sort of back-of-the-throat, almost kh, and the t is kind of...uh, special. The tongue's a little further toward the back of the mouth, basically.) sg. imperative (masc) hit (long i--heet), (fem) hiti

Yay?

[identity profile] teresa-c.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG, yay.

[identity profile] aderam.livejournal.com 2008-03-23 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This makes me SO happy! I've wanted to learn these languages pretty much since I found out they existed.