Keep Hoping Machine Running (
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.
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.

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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?
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