<DIV id=RTEContent> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Klahowya again,</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>In the same book where I took from the Djoha story (Gotthelf Bergsträsser: “Einführung in die semitischen Sprachen”, Max Hueber Verlag, München, 1977), there is another funny story that looks to me as being relatively easy to translate in Chinuk Wawa. It is in the Urmian Neo-Aramaic dialect (spoken by an ethnic group living scattered in Kurdistan [= SE Turkey + N Iraq] and Azerbaijan) with German translation and it is entitled “The Thornkiller” (“Der Dornentöter” in German). I made the translation in CW and in English.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Hopefully I don’t bore you too much with my translating attempts, but I don’t have anybody else to share them.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Francisc</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>THE THORNKILLER</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Anqati ixt man yatq’ix munk nanich khapa yaLuchmEn pus yaka skukum man, pus uk LuchmEn yachaku k’was khapa yaka.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Long time ago, one man wanted to show to his wife that he is a strong man, so that the woman would become afraid of him.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Khanawi san laXw san yaqhwetL ya’iktas pi yamunk k’aw ixt uptsax pi Latwa khapa thipsu ili’i.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Every day at sunset he put on his clothes and tied a knife (to his girdle) and went on the field.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New
Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Khanawi qhaX yat’Lap thipsu kipwEt, yaLk’up khapa ya’uptsax.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Everywhere he found thorns, he cut them with his knife.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta yachaku haws pi wawa: “LuchmEn, makEmtEks ikta qhata? Ukuk pulakli namunk mimlus hayu man. Nanich, naya’im khapa mayka, pi mayka wik maya’im khapa Laksta!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Then he came home and said: “Woman, do you know what happened? This night I killed many men. Look, I told this to you, but you don’t tell to anybody!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Khakwa khanawi san yaLatwa khapa uk thipsu ili’i pi chaku haws pi hayash wawa khapa yaLuchmEn: “Manak’i man namunk mimlus.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>So every day he went out on the field and came home and boasted before his wife: “More men did I kill.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ixt san yaLuchmEn yatEmtEm: “Pus dret wawa pus naman yamunk mimlus manak’i man, alaxti khanawi man chaku hilu khapa khanawi ukuk ili’i; qhata aLqi?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>One day his wife thought: “If really my husband kills more men, then all men should disappear in this world; what to do?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Qhanchi khakwa kwansEm yaman yaLatwa LaXani khapa thipsu ili’i, uk LuchmEn wEXt yaqhwetL man iktas pi Latwa khimta yaman, pi yaLushnanich pus yaman wik yananich
yaka.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>When, as usually, her man went out on the field, the woman also put on men’s clothes and went behind her man, but very carefully, so that her man would not see her.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta yaman yaq’u’ qhaX hayu thipsu kipwEt, pi yamunk Laqw ya’uptsax pi chxi yaLk’up ukuk thipsu kipwEt.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now her man reached a place with many thorns, he seized his knife and
began to cut those thorns.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta uk LuchmEn yakEmtEks qhata yaman yaskukum.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Now the woman understood how strong her man was.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Yaka wEXt yamunk Laqw ya’uptsax pi kuli khapa yaman.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>She also seized her knife and ran upon her man.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Uk man yachaku k’was pi ilEp yakuli pus LaX ukuk “skukum man. ”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The man became scared and began to run to escape this “strong man.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pi uk LuchmEn yaq’u’ haws ilEp pi mash uk man iktas.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>But the woman reached the house before him and put off the men’s clothes.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta yaman yachaku, dret k’was pi skukum tutu: “LuchmEn, makEmtEks ikta qhata?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Then her man came, very scared and tremendously trembling: “Woman, do you know what happened?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Wik, man.” “U, wik mawawa ikta, SaXali Tayi yamunk ilan nayka ukuk pulakli.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“No, man.” “Oh, don’t say anything, God helped (saved) me this night.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Qhata? Lush ayaq maya’im, natq’ix kEmtEks!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“How? Tell me at once, I want to know!”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN:
0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“MakEmtEks, ukuk pulakli chaku salEks wawa, pi na’iskam na’uptsax pi nakaqshEt tEnEs hayu Lastayi. Ayaq nananich, pi ikta?</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“You know, this night occured a quarrel, and I seized my knife and struck some of their leaders. Suddenly I saw, but what?</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ikt hayash skukum tEnEs man, yuLqat uptsax khapa yalima, yachaku khapa nayka.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>A big strong young man, a sword in his hand, fell upon me.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Khapit khapa mayka naya’im, pi wik maya’im khapa Laksta: XawqwaL namitxwit ilEp yaka pi chxi nakuli LaX.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I tell it only to you, but you don’t tell it to anybody: I was not able to stand before him (= to resist him) and I began to run to escape.</FONT></FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm
0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ukuk masachi man yakuli khimta nayka khapa yakwa.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>That enemy has followed me until here.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Uk LuchmEn ilEp yahihi khapa yaka.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The woman began to laugh on him.</FONT></div> <div
class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“U, khakwa pi khakwa mayka! Wik saya natEmtEm yat’LEX pus k’was, pi mayka, wik makilay pus nayka, ayaq mahihi khapa ukuk ikanum?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Oh, so and so (are) you! My heart was almost broken from fear, and you, you don’t pity me, rather you laugh about this story?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Uk LuchmEn yak’ilapaywawa: “Man, wik mak’was! Ukuk tEnEs man yachaku khapa mayka, wik yaka manak’i skukum pus
nayka.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The woman replied: “Man, don’t be afraid! That young man who fell upon you was not stronger than me.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Mayka hilu t’amanawas, wik mayka piltEn?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“You unlucky, are you not crazy?”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“Wik nayka piltEn, pi wik skukum makEmtEks. Nayka ukuk tEnEs man yakuli khimta mayka.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>“I am not crazy, but your understanding is weak. It was me that young man that has followed you.”</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Alta aLqi uk yakaqshEt thipsu kipwEt XawqwaL yamunk k’was yaLuchmEn.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Since then the thornkiller was
no more able to frighten his wife.</FONT></div> <div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></div></DIV><p>
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