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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.

*uses very appropriate icon*

[identity profile] delurker.livejournal.com 2008-03-24 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I can have a crack at Old Norse for you in a few days. But it's entirely likely that what I would produce would be slightly off.

Hmm. Welcome could go something like:
- vel-kominn, pp. welcome (biðja e-n vera -kominn = wish someone be welcome)
- taka vel við e-m, to receive one well, give one a hearty welcome; (lit. take well with someone)
- kom heill! welcome (lit. come healthy/whole! I get the impression this is what you say when you see your friend appears on your doorstep - that kind of ritual welcome)

Some of these would need tweaking, and I'm a bit iffy on the first one.

Anyway, I must get back to work.

Re: *uses very appropriate icon*

[identity profile] sarka.livejournal.com 2008-03-26 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD THE ICON.

*stares*

That is one of the awesomest things I've ever seen.

... and I don't know old Norse, except insofar as these are Icelandic, right?