Lesson 57: VI / TU Clusters

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VI CLUSTER

The first cluster today is VI! We've already seen other V clusters like va and ve, and this is related.

Oravia	English
visfiyur	heart
vismo	stomach
viwa	blood
vidur	bone
vilam	fat
vilil	muscle
visro	brain

What do you think VI words are about?

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VI words are related to internal body.

🌍 Sound Connections

Vis means soft internal organ, like Latin viscera.
Lil means muscle and comes from Arabic and Persian līf, meaning fiber or muscle fiber.

Here is another word with this root:
malil = meat (cooking food + muscle), just like vilil = muscle (internal body + muscle)

TU CLUSTER

The second cluster today is TU! Take a look at a few words:

Oravia	English
tunen	violence
tuldac	crash, hit
tumjum	gun
turai	war
tuapa	attack

What do you think TU words are about?

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TU words are related to conflict, fight, and war.

🌍 Sound Connections

Tu comes from Latin tumultus, which means violent disorder.
Nen means violence, power, coming from Latin imponens (imposing).

You are ready for the reading now!

Let's attempt to read the full chapter, both parts together! This is your first book chapter in Oravia. This may be a bit challenging, so treat it as a Milestone exercise!

Yalgai Raitar

Ah, yalgai raitar dia! A nim i ilian-davio e hevas de run tohpu yalgai elemi... En yalen li, run i siyal e dantam oi no elonor oimin cali vardei e ganou lusari. A nim i roesau e yani ciugai en liyar de bale ganter litam, cali a run i ilahai u nim:
"A nim i nedas dapas e ganou lusari. O i anifi, nima o i vardei e ganou lusari noli. "Mai a nima i fou i iloi" nim i ilaluan.
"Iloi? E ce?"
"E ganou lusari. A nima i fou i iloi linu davir li"
Notam, run i nomie no nedas iloram. Notor, i asular. Run i ilahai u nim:
"Nedas lirul a nim i iliro ca nim en bo!"
Neloa ilhei i ilian: cali dastor litetan en 'USA, a lusari i anocari en 'France. Daefer run i do i helufu de USA en France en tam litegai, i do i vardei e anocari lusari cali dastor litetan en USA.
Bi tohpu, a France a nordau, eta i doum i anye e noi. Mai en run yalgaigai heodom, yalgai raitar, run negafei i fou i anvu e apafene noniu vanpai. run i do i vardei e litam yadetu nehen li ca run i anidai...
"Lar" run i ilaluan u nim "i vardei e anocari lusari baledas bale coter!
Su yalgai li notor:
"A ilhei i eleyel e anocari lusari, cali a tohpu..."
"Eta, a run a tohpu?" u run i ilace "noi litam cali i vardei baledas bale anocari lusari?" Mai a yalgai raitar i dacoum.

Tips

anidai = want
anifi = come
(an)do = can, be able to
anocari = leave, exit (anocari lusari = the setting sun)
anvu = move
anye = make, do
apafene = sit, chair
asular = laugh, laughter
bale = four
baledas = forty (bale + das)
bo = home, house
cali = when
ciugai = detail
coter = number, times
daco = answer
daefer = assume, if then
dairan = like, prefer, favorite
dantam = only, as in "only Maria knows"
dastor = twelve
davio = change, different, turn into
davir = right, exact
elemi = live, life
eleyel = love
elonor = peace, calm
fou = lack, need
ganou = down, to go down, setting
ganter = ordinal number, rank
heodom = planet
helufu = fly, air
hevas = secret
ilace = ask
ilahai = talk, speak to
ilaluan = speak, say
ilhei = people
ilian = know
iliro = think
iloi = hope, wait for
iloram = surprise
joniu = piece, part
lar = unspecified past, once
li = time
linu = until
lirul = habit, custom
litam = day
litegai = minute
litetan = hour
liyar = morning
lusari = sun
nedas = 10/10
negafei = only, small amount, as in "only this small thing"
nehen = each
neloa = all
noi = here, this
noli = now
nomie = seems
noniu = some
nordau = far
notam = first event
notor = then, second event
oimin = entertainment, pleasure
raitar = to rule, ruler
roesau = learn, study
siyal = find, notice
tam = one
tohpu = sad
tor = two
vanpai = foot
vardei = look, see
yadetu = final, finally
yalen = long
yalgai = small
yalgaigai = very very small
yani = new

Here, we also have repetition of the root to create an effect of intensity. For example, yalgaigai is very very small.

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English translation:

Part One

Oh, little prince!

I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life. For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the calm pleasure of looking at the sunset.

I learned that new detail on the morning of the fourth day, when you said to me:

"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now."

"But we must wait," I said. "Wait? For what?"

"For the sunset. We must wait until it is time."

At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed. You said to me: "I am always thinking that I am at home!"

Part Two

Everybody knows that when it is noon in the United States the sun is setting over France.

If you could fly to France in one minute, you could go straight into the sunset, right from noon. Unfortunately, France is too far away for that. But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like . . .

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"

And a little later you added:

"You know--one loves the sunset, when one is so sad . . ."

"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

Matching Games

Time to practice! Match the Oravia words with their English meanings.

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