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Orinambe Orsitho Vaiori |
Vaior possesses a parallel
poetic vocabulary. While this vocabulary is not especially large,
many common words do have poetic variants. All of these words occur
in the main dictionary, but a separate
list seems useful.
See below for some other
notable features of the poetic style.
| naual common |
orsitho poetic |
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| a/au |
u |
this; the declension is regular (u, un, uste,
etc.) but the genitive may be either ui or
úi - it depends on how many syllables the poet
needs. Plural may be ur or uir, but
úir is most common.
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| achus |
achur |
near; grammar is the same for both |
| CATH |
NAURH |
to give |
| din |
rhiamade |
sun |
| lail |
laiumellin, lalhim |
evening, night; whichever fits the meter best is
chosen. |
| las |
aldinione |
tree |
| mahe |
sailone |
moon |
| oarme |
nistildus |
horse |
| raie |
emme |
star |
| rhon |
nenhal, arseine |
man; nenhal is most like rhon;
arseine has heroic or tragic implications |
| S |
ILIM |
to be; often used in the middle ilimi- |
| tath |
íanede, afcel/aucel |
woman, lady; afcel/aucel is more a warrior-woman or
nobility |
| va |
ania |
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Curiosities of Poetic Syntax
By far the most obvious difference between poetic
and regular syntax is that the freedom of word order is used to its
fullest extent. A very popular stunt is to bracket an entire sentence
between a noun and its modifier, which not only gives an interesting
sense of emphasis, but avoids unwanted rhyming effects when the
multi-syllabic case endings are used.
But, there are a few other features of poetic syntax
which should be noted:
- With verbs of perception, human direct objects are cast
generally in the genitive. So, corhai ania íanedei
I heard (my) lady.
- Similarly, non-human direct objects of verbs of perception are
sometimes cast in the ablative, though the accusative is also
common.
- In place of uri... ta... simple ri is used.
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