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Lesson 56
Your Turn 8

Another of Aesop’s fables.

Vocabulary

nedeya

first [nede (number: 1) + –ya (TIME)]

English Text

The Hen & the Swallow

A hen, finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.

A swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”

My Láadan Translation with Morphemic Analysis & Retranslation into English

The Hen & the Swallow

Lub i Robabí

Lub

Fowl

i

And

Robabí

Weather + Bird = WildBird

The Fowl & the Wild Bird

A hen, finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.

Bíide redeb lub máa lhezhathath nedebe wo i dóhowa be bezheth nayanal wóbáanewan.

Bíide

DECL + NARR

redeb

Find

lub

Fowl

máa

Egg

lhezhathath

PEJ + Snake + POSSbirth + OBJ

nedebe

#2-5

wo

MADEUP

i

And

dóhowa

CAUSEto + BeWarm

be

X1

bezheth

X2-5 + OBJ

nayanal

CareFor + MANN

wóbáanewan.

BringToBirth + PURP

Once upon a time, a hen found several eggs of a pernicious snake and warmed them carefully in order to bring them to birth.

A swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?”

Bíide il robabí hith wo i did, “Báadi eril wóbáan worawoth wolhene aril meholob lhezha hizh mideth woho—i lheneth nedehóoya—náwíya arileháath bebáawan?”

Bíide

DECL + NARR

il

PayAttn

robabí

WildBird

hith

Demo1 + OBJ

wo

MADEUP

i

And

did,

Speak + ANGER

“Báadi

Q + DIDACT

eril

PAST

wóbáan

BringToBirth

worawoth

REL + (NON + Wisdom = Foolishness)

wolhene

REL + YouDesp1

aril

FUT

meholob

PL + Trauma

lhezha

PEJ + Snake

hizh

Demo2-5

mideth

Creature + OBJ

woho

#All

—i

And

lheneth

YouDesp1 + OBJ

nedehóoya—

#1 + FOCUS + TIME = First + FOCUS

náwíya

(CONT + Life = Grow) + Time

arileháath

FUT + EMBEDrel + OBJ

bebáawan?”

Qprn1 + PURP

A wild bird perceives this and says, angrily, “[didactically] To what end did foolish despised-you bring to birth these wicked snakes that will, after the time of growing, harm all creatures—and you first of all?

Láadan Text

Lub i Robabí

Bíide redeb lub máa lhezhathath nedebe wo i dóhowa be bezheth nayanal wóbáanewan.

Bíide il robabí hith wo i did, “Báadi eril wóbáan worawoth wolhene aril meholob lhezha hizh mideth woho—i lheneth nedehóoya—náwíya arileháath bebáawan?”