#sialve

The translation of @thewitherwolf story about the Red Man in sialf. The original story ishere.

We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. Silêrð maesât-is asved-u i'kerris. /sʲilʲɛrð ma.esa:tʲis asvʲedu jikʲɛr.ris/

But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. Or del silit e'hlîþ ën asvit liet-saj lass. /or dʲe:lʲ silʲit eʰɬʲi:θ œn ‘asvʲit lʲje:t.sag la:ss/

Singing “Oh willow waly” by the tree that weeps with me. Mallait “O, kerris ten” u lass his asvaeþ xeit-i. /ma:l.lajt oʰ kʲɛr.ris tɛn u lass his 'asvajθ xʲe:jtʲi/

Singing “Oh willow waly” till my lover return to me. Mallait “O, kerris ten” maig girniþ tog-o allai. /ma:l.lajt oʰ kʲɛr.ris tɛn ma:jg gʲi:r.nis togoʰ al.la.i/

We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. Silêrð mayâsten-is u i’kerris asvëm. /sʲilʲɛrð maja:stɛnʲis u jikʲɛr.ris 'asvʲem/

In the Tulagaur’s language are very important some suffixes and prefixes, which are included in the dictionary form of the word.

d- /d’-/ – diminutive.

-ud (-ut) – this suffix meaning: “part of the whole”, “incomplete process”, “special case”. Depending on which speech sounds that prevail in word (breath, voiced, sonorant), is added to a certain kind of suffix.

if word has breath consonant and sonorant (or only breath), then added ’-ut’ if word has voiced consonant and sonorant (or only voiced), then added ’-ud’ if word has sonorant, then added ’-ud’

-se – this suffix meaning: “collective noun”, “modus operandi”, “generalization”. Feature of the suffix is that depending on the word may be pronounced as without ’s’ so and without ’e’.

-wed (-wet) – this suffix is the union of ’ud (ut)’ and ‘se’. It has the same meaning as that of its member suffixes. First, the word takes on the meaning of ’ud (ut)’, and then ’se’.

Example:

hoð /‘ho:ð/ – blood d'hoð /djo:ð/ – a bit of blood.

hoðud /'ho'ðud/ – drop of blood, trickle of blood, splashes of blood. d'hoðud /djo'ðud/ – droplet of blood, tittle of blood.