Tuesday, July 2, 2013

02-Jul-13, Butterfly -- Baĵane



Today's word is baĵane.  Baĵane means "butterfly" and is formed from the verb "baĵane", which means "it folds".  This word is one of the rare nominalized conjugated verbs (along with bajeta and bale and a handful of others) which generally refer to insect and animal life.  The stress pattern is BA-ĵa-ne.

Our example sentence for today is Srîtnia pa jémén baĵanebin otaŵraug also.

A breakdown of this sentence is as follows:

Srîtnia pa jémén baĵanebin otaŵraug also.
Time-uncertain in trees butterflies(acc) sugg-we-behold we.
At times one ought to look at butterflies in the woods.
OR
We should sometimes look at butterflies in the woods.

Written in haec balisi, our example sentence looks like:


Picture source (the dog and the butterfly) here.

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