Novial/Hound Lesson 6

100px|right|Novial flag Novial home – Pronunciation Guide Contents – Lesson 1 – Lesson 2 – Lesson 3 - Lesson 4 – Lesson 5 - Lesson 6 – Lesson 7 - Prefixes – Suffixes Li Inquesto ”Tali es li rakonte, men filios, del venio del hunde kel, on dikte, deposu ha es plage ye dis familie. Me ha skripte lu pro ke, te kel klarim es savat have min terore kam te kel es nur insinuat o divinat. Ultru multes ek li familie ha sufra subiti, sangosi, misteriosi morios. Dunke me konsila ke vus evita vadant trans ti agres ye ti deslumosi hores kand li povos de malu es exaltat. “[Disu fro Hugo Baskerville a lon filios Rodger e John, kun instruktiones ke les dikte nulu pri lu a sen fratra, Elizabeth.]” Doktoro Mortimer, hant fina lekte dis uniki naratione, did pusha sen lunete a sur sen fronte e did regardada vers Sinioro Sherlock Holmes. Diso dikted ”Nu?”. “Ob lu non interesa vu?” “Interesanti por kolektere de rakontes.” Mortimer did tira jurnale ek sen poshe. ”Me sal rakonta kelku plu resenti. Disu es li Devon Jurnale de 14esmi de maye de dis yare. Lu deskripte li faktes deskovrat pri li morio de Sir Charles Baskerville kel eventad kelki dies ante ti date.” Li jurnalal artikle deskripted li resenti morio del proprietere del kastelete del famile Baskerville de ti tempe. Charles had gana grandi sume de moneye kom spekulatore in Sudi Amerika. Lo tand did returna a Anglia e usad sen moneye por projetes de rikonstruktione e pluboniso in li lokal sosie. Li kortal inquesto did konkluse ke Charles Baskerville did mori pro kordial falio durant ke lo promenad along alee in li parke de sen kastelete. Li medike kel atestad li morio esed Doktore Mortimer self. After ke lo did lekte li artikle, Mortimer dikted: “Tes es li publiki faktes pri li morio de Sir Charles Baskerville.” Holmes dikted: ”Danko pro rakonta a me pri interesanti kasu. Ob dis artikle kontena omni li publiki faktes?” “Yes.” “Nun rakonta a me li privatus.” Lo apoyad retro e posturad sen maxim non-expresiv e judikeral aspekto. Vocabulary alee – lane, walk, ally along – along Anglia – England apoya – (to) prop up, support, lean against artikle – article aspekto – look, appearance atesta – (to) attest, testify danko (pro) – thanks (for) deposu – since, since then deskovrat – discovered deskripte – describe deslumosi – dark diso – the latter divinat – guessed, devined exaltat – exalted fakte – fact falio – failure, failing filio – son fina – (to) finish fratra – sister fronte – forehead gana – (to) gain inquesto – inquest, inquiry insinuat – insinuated, hinted instruktione – instruction judikeral – judicial, judge-like jurnalal – newspaper, of a newspaper jurnale – newspaper, journal kasu – case kelku – something kolektere – collector konkluse – (to) conclude konsila – (to) counsil, (to) advise kontena – (to) contain kordial – of the heart, cardial kortal – of a court, court lokal – local lunete – glasses, specticles malu – evil thing maye – May medike – (medical) docter, physician, medic min multi – less misteriosi – mysterious moneye – money morio – death, process of dying non-expresiv – inexpressive, expressionless nu – well, well then (interjection) nulu – nothing nun – now parke – park plage – plauge pluboniso – improvement postura – (to) pose, assume an attitude povos – power privatu – private one, something private projete – project promena – (to) walk, stroll publiki – public, of the public pusha – (to) push rakonto – telling regardada – stare, keep on looking resenti – recent returna – (to) return rikonstruktione – reconstruction sangosi – bloody, covered in blood savat – known self – self, oneself, himself, etc. sosie – society, community spekulatore – speculator subiti – sudden Sud Amerika – South America sufra – (to) suffer sume – sum, amount tal(i) – such, like, of that kind terore – terror tira – (to) draw, pull, tug trans – on the other side of, beyond, over ultru – moreover, further uniki – unique, singular usa – (to) use vada – (to) go venio – coming yes – yes Grammar Notes Passive of Being The passive voice, indicating a state of being, is expressed with es followed by the past participle of the verb: es exultat – is exalted esed savat – was known sal es morit – shall be dead Note that the stress is on the vowel before the final -t. Sexless Nouns Ending in -U As discussed in Lesson 1, replacing the -i ending of an adjective with -u forms a sexless noun with the character of the adjective: li malu – the evil one, evil li privatus – the private ones E/A/O Words The related nouns and verbs which alternate the endings –e, –a and –o are a major characteristic of the Novial language. Note that all e/a/o words are from sexless nouns so no confusion is possible with the use of these endings for male or female/female/male as was described in Lesson 1. In the preceding reading texts several examples of e/a/o words occurred and were listed with their translations but with no further explanation. These endings provide a very convenient way of converting a sexless noun ending in –e into a corresponding verb ending in –a, provided that the meaning of the verb is very obvious. If there is any possibility of uncertainty in meaning, another verbal ending should be used for clarity. rakonte – rakonta – rakonto (story – (to) tell – telling) date – data –dato (a date – (to) date, provide a date – dating) lume – luma –lumo (a light – (to) shine – shining) drinke – drinka – drinko (a drink – (to) drink – drinking) sadle – sadla – sadlo (a saddle – (to) saddle – saddling) forme – forma – formo (a form – (to) form – forming) The Prefix NON- The prefix non- converts the stem to sense not. Note this is not the direct opposite which is expressed with the prefix des-. Examples: non-expresiv – inexpressive non-mutual – non-reciprocal The Prefix RI- The prefix ri- indicates repetition. As an independent word ri means again. konstruktione – construction rikonstruktione – reconstruction The Suffix -AD- The suffix -ad- is added to verbal stems to indicate repeated or continuous action. regarda – (to) look regardada –(to) keep on looking, (to) stare Word Derivation Use endings and affixes to convert the following Novial root words to the English words indicated. gana – to regain, gain again praktikal – impractical usa – to keep using envada – to re-enter espera – to keep on hoping lerna – to relearn dikte – to keep on saying skripte – to rewrite turna – to turn again exakti – inexact usa – to re-use importanti – unimportant komensa – to begin again deskovrat – undiscovered savat – unknown visita – to revisit, visit again sufra – to go on suffering senda – to resend rigana nonpraktikal usada rienvada esperada rilerna diktada riskripte riturna nonexakti riusa nonimportanti rikomensa nondeskovrat nonsavat rivisita sufrada risenda __________________________________________________________________________________ 100px|right|Novial flag Novial home – Pronunciation Guide Contents – Lesson 1 – Lesson 2 – Lesson 3 - Lesson 4 – Lesson 5 -Lesson 6 – Lesson 7 Prefixes – Suffixes