Olwöa analysis swap

[Arayaz]

Spoiler:

6) ejan jen moghan.

8) ejan jewo mozazezelh.

Okay. I'm pretty sure ejan is a second person pronoun, since it's seen in the greeting. Now, jen is "rock," so jewo must be some other form of that ─ but what's the change? Is the noun marked for tense?

And moghan and mozazezelh both have that mo-. I wonder if it's agreement of some sort? And zazezelh is, I think, a past tense form, but is that reduplication? What's the root? Hmm ... I think I need to find another past tense form. Let's see ...

"Okay," I say. "And before I dropped it, what was I doing?"

[_Just_A_Sketch]

Spoiler:

6) ejan jen moghan.

8) ejan jewo mozazezelh.

Okay. I'm pretty sure ejan is a second person pronoun, since it's seen in the greeting. Now, jen is "rock," so jewo must be some other form of that ─ but what's the change? Is the noun marked for tense?

And moghan and mozazezelh both have that mo-. I wonder if it's agreement of some sort? And zazezelh is, I think, a past tense form, but is that reduplication? What's the root? Hmm ... I think I need to find another past tense form. Let's see ...

"Okay," I say. "And before I dropped it, what was I doing?"

Spoiler:

Seeing your speculation is so fun! Although I think I messed up in 6, where jen should be jewo... I am so bad at translations...

Hmmm, that would be the same as before, ejan jewo moghan. But if you wanted to be specific you could say

9) Zal egom ejan jewo moghan

A lot of kids these days would just say zal instead of zal egom, but that's not right so don't go around talking like that or you'll sound stupid.

Spoiler:

She's a prescriptivist