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Post by JustGina on Mar 6, 2011 23:49:30 GMT -6
I haven't made much progress in learning the language, but I have added a couple of words to my vocabulary. I'm just not sure which order to say them in. According to the word list on cherokee.org, "U s di" is "baby" (and also "little"). "Cat" is "we sa." So, if I wanted to say "baby cat" in Tsalagi, would I say "U s di we sa?" Or would it be "We sa u s di?" To word it another way, in the short two-word sentence described above, does the noun come first or last? Edited to clarify: I'm not looking for the word for "kitten" which is different from "baby" or "little" "cat." I want to say, "little cat" rather than "baby cat" or "kitten"
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Post by graybear on Mar 10, 2011 12:32:18 GMT -6
Si yo JustGina..I send this information with no authority. In a writing where a indian man says he is a real american Ndn...he says "a-yv-wi-ya....yv-wi means a people and ya is true or real so he is saying Ndn real or the noun 1st. I don't know if that is a rule or just the way it was said for the occassion. But armed with that it will ad weight to any other information you gain.
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Post by Tree Climber (Tlugv Galegi) on Mar 12, 2011 22:28:23 GMT -6
Siyo JustGina, Like Greybear said, I'm no authority on the language but I too am trying to learn the word. In my studies the noun will usually come first in a name. My wife's name is Little Foot (Tsuna Usti) pronounced Joo nah oo stay. In other writings by Cherokee authors it is spelled the same way. At the Cherokee Museum in Cherokee, NC. one display talks about the white adopted child who later became Chief. His name was Little Will and in Cherokee it is pronounced Wil Usti.
Hope this helps and by the way, we had a cat named Wa sa, which came up missing last September. We think a coyote or maybe a fox might have gotten him, although a fox would have had his hands full , he was a real warrior!! ;D Our new cat we named Tsali, after the Cherokee who gave his life, so the rest of his people could stay in Cherokee after the removal.
Donadagohvi, (until we talk again) Igohidv Tsalagi (Forever Cherokee) Gulegatlugv (Treeclimber)
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Post by 2shadows on Mar 28, 2011 7:24:30 GMT -6
I am thinking Little Cat would be wesa usdi
but tsalagi is polysyntactic that is there are many ways to say things..many ways to paint the picture.
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