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Fo hokzii
May 14, 2016

Bunch of word, what I cannot translate

Greetings. I have started my third lyrics translation, and I have bunch of words, what I cannot find a good synonym for a good translation.

Call, ruin, tailor, new, cloth, gamble, bag, satisfied, drunk, sin, pillow, foot, other, ball/blobe, weight, chain.

If I have a chance, to product some new words, show me the way.

Thanks for your patience :)

Category: General


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Frinmulaar
May 14, 2016

Easy ones first.

'Call': Zaan if 'shout'. Bel if 'make someone appear'.

'Ruin': Mah if 'downfall'. Mahlaan hofkah if 'abandoned house'. Metaphorically, kopraan 'corpse'. Al if a verb.

'New': Goraan if a person. {Kiin/zorox/wahl} mal vod if an institution, item, building respectively.

'Chain': Horvut for any instrument of captivity. Gron for metaphorical bindings.

Then, those that can be paraphrased.

'Other': possibly ni daar 'not that one', perhaps in some cases vomindok 'unknown'.

'Cloth': for items of apparel, ahtiid 'what one wears'.

'Drunk': some poems have gramhah, lit. 'cloudmind'.

'Satisfied': brit as a general 'satisfying, fulfilling, pleasant'. Thus we might have Daar brit fah zu'u "I'm satisfied with this", somewhat like in Spanish (me gusta) or Russian (mne nravits'a).

'Sin': Tahrovin and gruth mean 'treachery', and could be extended to 'crime'. More literally, vokulsod 'evil deed'.

'Tailor' could be ahtiid-wahlin ('garment-making master'). The compound is - realistically - a little unwieldy.

'Gamble', 'bag', 'pillow', 'foot' and 'ball' are either underivable basic words or require more context to paraphrase. For more suggestions, try adding the full lines as answers here.


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Fo hokzii
May 16, 2016

-My father was a gamblin' man

-Now the only thing a gambler needs

-The other foot on the train

-To wear that ball and chain

The Lyrics with the ,,pillow" word was throwed out, because, there is too much slang word.