Awjila Text VI

The most texts left to translate are all shorter stories, and are basically short jokes.

Žḥá yəskína lʕəllí-y-i, bəʕədén yušá-d iwínan isása af təfillí-nnəs.
‘Juha lived up high, then someone came and begged at his house.’

• Žḥá Personal name
• yəskína ‘to live’ res.3sg.m.
• lʕəllí– ‘high’
• -y-i locative particle
• bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
• yušá-d ‘to come’  pf.3sg.m.
• iwínan ‘one’
• isása ‘to beg’ pf.3sg.m.
• af ‘on’
• təfillí- ‘house’
• -nnəs 3sg. possessive suffix

Bəʕədén yə́ḫzər Žḥá s-ar-ẓúṭ w- in-ís: ddíwa tġəllít a-y-amə́dən?
‘Then Juha looked from above and said: What do you want, O man?’

• bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
• yə́ḫzər ‘to see, look’
• Žḥá Personal name
• s-ar- ‘from’
• ẓúṭ ‘above’
• w- ‘and’
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
• ddíwa ‘what’
• tġəllít ‘to want’ res.2sg.
• a-y- vocative particle
• amə́dən ‘man’

In-ís amə́dən: yid-díla. Yuš-íz-d Žḥá.
The man said: Come here. Juha came to him.

• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
• amə́dən ‘man’
• yid- ‘to come’ suppletive imp.sg.
• díla ‘here’
• Yuš-…-d ‘to come’ pf.3sg.m.
  
• -íz 3sg. indirect object pronoun
• Žḥá Personal name

Bəʕədén in-ís amə́dən: fki-dík s-ar (or: s-ġár) elḥáqq əṛ-ṛə́bbi.
‘Then the man said to him: Give me (something) from the grace of god!’

• bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
• amə́dən ‘man’
• fki- ‘to give’ imp.sg.
• -dík 1sg. indirect object pronoun
• s-ar (or: s-ġár) ‘from’
• elḥáqq ‘grace’
• əṛ- genitive particle n assimilated to the following consonant.
• ṛə́bbi ‘god’

Bəʕədén in-ís Žḥá: yíd ẓúṭ.
‘Then Juha said to him: come up.’

• Bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
  
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
  
• Žḥá Personal name
• yíd ‘to come’ imp.sg.
  
• ẓúṭ ‘up’
  

U yəlbə́b nəttín ídd-əs ar-ẓúṭ w- in-ís: ġar-i-ká.
‘And he climbed up with him and he said to him: I don’t have (aything).’

• u ‘and’
• yəlbə́b ‘to climb’ pf.3sg.m., singular while the way the subject is defined (he with him) usually takes a plural subject agreement in Berber languages.
• nəttín ídd-əs ‘he with him’
• ar- ‘to’
• ẓúṭ ‘up’
• w- ‘and’
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
  
• ġar-i ‘to me’ here to be read as ‘I have’
• -ká Negative particle
  

Bəʕədén in-ís wa sásan: af-íwa tnəd-dík-ká  (or: ur tnəd-dík) žlan-íya u nək nníx ar-úṭa?
‘Then the beggar said: Why did you not tell me these words when I was down?’

• Bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
  
• wa sásan relative pronoun sg.m. with ‘to beg’ pf.ptc. > ‘the one who begs’ > ‘beggar’
• af-íwa ‘why’
• tnəd- ‘to say’ pf.2sg.
• -dík 1sg. indirect object pronoun
• -ká Negative particle
• žlan- ‘discourse, story, words’
• -íya demonstrative pl. suffix
• u ‘and’
• nək ‘I’
• nníx ‘to exist, be in a place’ pf.1sg.
• ar- ‘to’
• úṭa ‘down’

Bəʕədén in-ís Žḥá: w- af-íwa tənəd-dík írəš ar-úṭa?
Then Juha said: And why did you tell me to come down?

• Bəʕədén ‘afterwards’
• in-ís ‘to say’ pf.3sg.m. with 3sg. indirect object pronoun.
  
• Žḥá Personal name
• w- ‘and’
• af-íwa ‘why’
• tənəd- ‘to say’ pf.2sg.
• -dík 1sg. indirect object pronoun
• írəš ‘to descend’ imp.sg.
• ar- ‘to’
• úṭa ‘down’

M. van Putten