Candles

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Erinqua líkuma tinta úve líkumaron, ar i líkumo vehte úva *sennatakse. Alasse úva píka quie *etsátina.

Submitted by Atwe on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:05
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oreramar:

A single candle kindles an abundance of candles, and the candle's life will not be shortmarked. Joy will not lessen when (set aside).

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

How do you explain etsátina ? Without translation, I would not understand "shared".
Thanks

08/08/2008 - 20:17
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admin:

By the by, *sennatakse was intended to be a reflexive variant of a verb *sennata- 'shorten'.

08/09/2008 - 16:26
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admin:

*etsátina: I was rather thinking along the semantic line of √sat "divide, apportion" etsat "divide in equal portions"1, which, in my opinion, could develop into the meaning of 'share'. Or, to distance it a bit from the original meaning, one could apply the prefix ó-, like *ósátina.

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08/09/2008 - 11:01
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oreramar:

Sorry, my fault - I overlooked etsat- in the wordlist. That makes sense of course in the context of the sentence and I quite like *ósátina.

08/09/2008 - 12:08