Translation?

[Clive Bloomfield]

> Am 04.11.2007 um 19:49 schrieb Jonathan Holmes:
>> Could someone help me with an english translation to the following  
>> Lakota sentances?
>>

Another version - no great differences, but I needed the practise :

>> taku kin lena mayakipazo ca iwanblake na wastelo ca pilamaye yelo.

"I've looked over (considered) these things you have shown me, and  
they're great, so I'm obliged to you."

         (prob. : "pilamaYAye lo"(2pSg. Subj.), rather than "pilamaye  
lo"(3pSg. Subj) - unless latter was ikceya-woglakapi for former, with  
'yelo' added as afterthought??)

>>  na wanna woiyunge wanji bluha, ehanni wicasa kin lena tonweyapi  
>> ewicakiyab.

"And now, I've got a question, (regarding/speaking of) these men who  
were called 'scouts', in the old days."

>> taku isam wounspemiciciye wacin ca tuktel iwanblakin kte nains  
>> iyewaye owakihi hwo?

"I want to learn some more, so where should I consider (looking), or  
where might I find it?"

>> taku kin lena wounspe wacin, wicasa kin lena toske inahmapi hwo?  
>> nahan ehan taku hayapi kin unpi hwo?

"I'd like some information (lit. "instruction/lesson") on the  
following things : "

         (Is "wounspe" in genitival relation with preceding "taku kin  
lena" : "instruction OF (on/about) these matters"?)

"How did these men practise concealment?"

"And what sort of clothes did they wear at the time?"



Tuppence-ha'penny worth from the Land of the Big Dry!

Clive.




On 05/11/2007, at 7:43 AM, Alfred W. Tüting wrote:

> I appreciate what you have pointed out to me, it is good, thanks to  
> you. Now I've one (more?) question: I'd like to learn more about  
> those men whom they called "tonweyapi" (scouts, spys) in former  
> times, and where can I look for it or find (smth.)?
>
> (I'm not sure with the following): ?? What I want (a) lesson (of),  
> how(??) did these men hide (keep secret) then (toksha?? = toske??)?  
> And what clothing did they wear?
>
> Alfred (my tuppence)
>
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