#kanuil

[kanuil]

Translation.

My favourite line from LotR:

So fair, yet so cold like a morning of pale Spring still clinging to Winter's chill.

Se:njume dos kar dos ti:ra:. Loen lananjurne poern sel krit ro-ti:nos ma-london.

(lit. so beautiful, yet so cold. Like a early-spring morning that blows with cool of the Winter. 

[kanuil]

Lenaio. - I love you. Siloari. - She came to us.  Ome:ner ko-ri. - You will eat with us.  Seraiediran. - She will light a candle.  Ti:nasea. - You are tired. 

Vocabulary:

Verbs:

na - to love

lo - to come

me - to eat

rai - to light, to fire

Nouns:

ner - meal

diran - candle

Infixes:

-e- - past tense

[kanuil]

Vocabulary - the body

toral - body, torael

mino - face, minoe

kaleb - nose, kale:b

silai - arm, sili:

ran - leg, raen

mikol - knee, mikoel

tuli - ear, tului

anin - eye, anuin

falin - finger, faluin

okal - hair, okael (hair of more than one person)

rino - breast, rinoe

[kanuil]

Numerals

Mafae counting system is a base-3 system, which main elements are  1, 2, 3 i 18. 

ilo

taso

mano

(3+1) manilo

(3+2) mataso

(3*2) manoe 

manoe ilo

manoe taso

manoe mano

manoe manilo

manoe mataso

man-manoe

man-manoe ilo

man-manoe taso

man-manoe mano

man-manoe manilo 

man-manoe mataso

tu:los

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36. tu:loes 

[kanuil]

Root combination

Most of the roots in mafae language can be combined to create new, more symbolical meanings. Those are some examples:

raikan - desert (rai - fire, kan - land, earth, dirt)

mafalk - rustle (maf - music, alk - tree, plant)

fiarn - vocabulary, words of language (fia - water, arn - language)

kanyu - world of the dead (nyu - beautiful, kan - land, earth, dirt)

fiari - blood (fia - water, rai - fire)