Wallops #3

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The most succesful of the Esp translations, this is a Lithuanian folk song
that appeared in the Fundamenta Krestomatio (The basic anthology) (le baucmu
se ctuci'u) in 1905, done by A. Dombrowski. The Krestomatio wasn't as
influential as it should, mainly because most of it wasn't any good by
modern standards (and indeed, even by contemporary FrancoEsp-ic standards),
but this song translated well. It is Lithuanian. Well, it is of the
Lithuanian state; co-ruled with Poland from the 1300's to the 1600's, and
the basis of Russian Poland, it included huge chunks of modern Eastern
Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. The metre is the "Polish ten-syllable", which,
due to Polish's antepenultimate accent, and the strong caesura, comes out
as a slightly loose normal foot-bound verse.

This one is without translations, for the simple reason that its vocab
and grammar are very easy.


doi ka mi badri         doi ka mi badri
.i do bamo'u            xu raktu be mi
.i mi se kansa          leka mi badri
kei lenu                litru le banli dargu
.iku'i ki'o             pendo mi klama
.i voki'omei            lei xirma tuple
.i do doi pendo         lei xirma tuple
.e lei selgu'i          dakfu cu pilno
lenu ko dapma           leka mi badri
.i le citpendo          cu ze'u dapma
.iku'i leka             badri na terpa
.i leka badri           cu terpa noda
.i banro gi'e           selze'a carmi
.i leka badri           cu terpa noda
.i ri nalgaixra         loi crino pezli
.i leka badri           baco'a sisti
ba'o lenu mi            xrukla le mamta
.i lemi mamta           cu cmana xabju
.i galtu cmana          .i cnino mrovau

(badri - sad. raktu - trouble. kansa - accompany. litru - travel. banli -
great. dargu - road. pendo - friend. klama - come. xirma - horse. tuple -
leg. selgu'i - illuminated. dakfu - knife. pilno - use. dapma - fight.
citpendo - young friend. terpa - fear. banro - grow. selze'a - increased.
carmi - intense. nalgaixra - uncover-hurts - exposes. crino - green. pezli -
leaf. sisti - stop. xrukla - return-go. mamta - mother. cmana - mountain.
xabju - dwell. galtu - tall. cnino - new. mrovau - dead-container.)



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