Raem Civrie
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Posted - 2005.04.29 17:24:00 -
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Edited by: Raem Civrie on 29/04/2005 17:23:51
Amarrian is at first glance latin thrown into a horrible lingual vortex. For example, as seen in the Cult of Tetrimon chronicle:
 Quote:
"a manu dei e tet rimon " - I am the devoted hand of the divine god. ("Tetrimon" means "Divine Devotion")
First theory:
Latin does not have a definite article, but Amarrian seems to have taken on "e" as a def. art.
What REALLY bothers me about this sentence is the abject lack of verbs... the only possible verb here is "a", but since the verb also carries the pronoun (if it further deviates from latin and doesn't conjugate, well... there just aren't enough words there), I'm simply baffled over how the hell the declension is supposed to look like. Best I could come up with is a/at/as (sing.) and amt/aet/ant (plur.)
Second theory:
Considering that tetrimon (the noun) means "Divine Devotion", we can deduce that tet and rimon are two seperate words, 'divine' and 'devotion'. With that in mind, we break up the sentence...
a - Either a personal pronoun or the verb
manu - noun, meaning "hand"
dei - god, or divine.
e - Again, either a personal pronoun or verb.
tet - Divine. Yeah, let's leave it at that.
rimon - relatively similar to the latin verb "rimor", or 'to cleave', or "rimosus", adj. 'full of *****s'
The clinch is how "dei" and "rimon" are connected in the sentence. In english, it's via sentence structure. In latin, shared declensions are used. The former is out of the picture, as the words are too far apart. As for shared declensions, the controlling word would be "dei". This does not, in any way, resemble "rimon" enough for them to share declensions. Neither does tet. Besides the fact that the vowels are differently placed and that both "tet" and "rimon" end with a consonant whereas dei does not (consonants don't drop out where they follow vowels).
So...
The only way this might possibly work is if "dei" means devoted, and "tetrimon" becomes a noun/adjective meaning "devotion to god".
And if so, Amarrian has little or NO connection to latin. At all. Sentence structure, declensions, conjugations, definite article, word meaning and different base verbs... all refuted and wildly different.
Postscript - I am aware that I probably put alot more thought into this than whoever wrote the potw, but I believe that these things should be done proper. Or not at all.
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