Charn Speaks With Mierin
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Transcript
- Mierin
- "It's a beautiful song."
Pronunciation
An'am dena.[a.ˈnäm ˈdɛ.nä
]
- Charn
- "Mierin Sedai!"
- Mierin Sedai!
Pronunciation
Mierin Sedai![ˈmiɛ̯.ɾɪn sɛ.ˈdäɪ̯
]
- Mierin
- "You're from here, aren't you?"
Pronunciation
Weladthi kodome?[wɛ.ˈlad.θi ko.ˈdo.meɪ̯
]
- Charn
- "Yes, Aes Sedai. My family still farms these fields. They are bringing in the harvest now."
Pronunciation
Taak, Aes Sedai.[täːk ˈäɪ̯ːs sɛ.ˈdäɪ̯
]
Weladthi vlagh'sor, hlin vlagha.[wɛ.ˈlä.tʰi vläg ˈsɔɹ hi.ˈlän ˈβlä.gʰä
]
- Mierin
- "You should go visit them."
Pronunciation
Jala'ti sein.[ˈdʒä.lä.ti seɪ̯n
]
- Charn
- "Today's too important for you, isn't it? I can go tomorrow."
Pronunciation
Ji'akai, ca'matuet aha[ˈdʒi.ä.ˈkäɪ̯ ˈkä.mä.ˈtu.ɛt ˈä.hä
]
Jalanu welakai.[dʒä.ˈlä.nu wɛ.lä.ˈkäɪ̯
]
- Mierin
- "Tomorrow? Tomorrow everything will be different."
Pronunciation
Welakai?[wɛ.lä.ˈkäɪ̯
]
Welakai aes gadou![wɛ.lä.ˈkäɪ̯ ˈäɪ̯.ɛs ɡä.ˈdäo̞̯
]
- Charn
- "I know it's not my place to ask... But what is it? That you've found?"
Pronunciation
Ah, choshih'ath, gavane? Nane asa jaevae?[ä ˈtʃo.ʃi.ˈäθ ɡä.ˈvä.nɛ ˈnä.nɛ ˈä.sä ˈdʒäɛ̯.və
]
- Mierin
- "The thinnest part of the pattern. A place I think we can punch through... and find what's on the other side."
Pronunciation
Fonnai tamara'simp. Mozhlit ortu, jaendar logae.[ˈfo.näɪ̯ tä.mä.ɾä.ˈsimp ˈmoʒ.lit ˈɔɹ.tu ˈdʒä.ɛn.däɹ lo.ˈʒeɪ̯
]
- Charn
- "And what's there?"
- logae gavane?
Pronunciation
logae gavane?[lo.ˈɡäɪ̯.ɛ ɡä.ˈvä.nɛ
]
- Mierin
- "A power... that can be used by men or women... The true power. It will change everything. Can you imagine? Something anyone, anywhere can use. Not just Lews Therin and the Aes Sedai. Even you, your family."
- Walden.
- Walden aes sedonae.
- Saihit.
- Aes gadou.
- Mozhlit gortista aes atha'an.
- Tarim bolar greal,
- asa, ninte weladthi,
- tarim bolar Lews Therin Aes Sedai.
Pronunciation
Walden.[ˈväl.dɛn
]
Walden aes sedonae.[ˈväl.dɛn ˈäɪ̯.ɛs sɛ.dɔ.ˈneɪ̯
]
Saihit.[säɪ̯.ˈhit
]
Aes gadou.[ˈäɪ̯.ɛs ɡä.ˈdäu̯
]
Mozhlit gortista aes atha'an.[ˈmoʒ.lit ɡɔɹ.ˈtis.tä ˈäɪ̯.ɛs ˈä.θä.ˈän
]
Tarim bolar greal,[ˈtä.ɾe̞m ˈbo.läɾ ɡɾɛ.ˈjäl̠
]
asa, ninte weladthi,[ˈä.sä ˈnin.tɛɪ̯ wɛ.ˈläd.tʰi
]
tarim bolar Lews Therin Aes Sedai.[ˈtäɹm ˈbo.läɾ luːs ˈθɛ.ɾɪn ˈäɪ̯s sɛ.ˈdäɪ̯
]
- Mierin
- "They wouldn't have to bring in the harvest by hand."
Pronunciation
Spiat hlan. Tarim pi'hlan vid sovin'sor.[ˈspi.ät hi.ˈlän ˈtä.ɾe̞m pi.l̠än vid ˈso.vin.ˈsɔɹ
]
- Charn
- "Yes, but... it feels good to. I can't explain it. To feel the wheat you grew in your hands... The soil you tilled beneath your feet... It feels good."
- Taak, no, hlan uiwa kutyalot vid sovin.
- Manu kutya kazka sovin'sa. Feros muad basho so soreat.
- Kutyalot uiwa hlan.
Pronunciation
Taak, no, hlan uiwa kutyalot vid sovin.[täːk no̞ː hi.ˈlän ˈβ̞i.wä ˈku.t̠ʃjä.lo̞t vɪd so.ˈvɪn
]
Manu kutya kazka sovin'sa. Feros muad basho so soreat.[ˈmä.nu ˈku.t̠ʃä ˈkaz.kä so.ˈvɪn.sä ˈfɛ.ɾos ˈmuä̯d ˈbä.ʃo so ˈso.ɾɛ.ät
]
Kutyalot uiwa hlan.[ˈku.t̠ʃjä.lo̞t ˈβ̞i.wä hi.ˈlän
]
- Mierin
- "Go. See your family. Sing your song."
Pronunciation
Jalou.[ˈdʒä.läu̯
]
Heatsu ninte weladthi.[he.ˈat.su ˈnin.tɛɪ̯ wɛ.ˈläd.tʰi
]
Denu perant.[ˈdɪ.nu pɛ.ˈɾənt
]
- Charn
- "Are you sure?"
Pronunciation
Dai nosane?[däɪ̯ no.ˈsä.nɛ
]
- Mierin
- "There's nothing more important than holding on to the people you love."
Pronunciation
Duente ninte atha'ohlan ca'matuet sul sein.[du.ˈɛn.tɛɪ̯ ˈnin.tɛɪ̯ ˈa.θän.ˈo̞.län ˈkä.ma.ˈtu.ɛt.tsul seɪ̯n
]
Transcript with Literal Translation and Notes
In this sentence we see that "your", "is", and "from" are all omitted and implied. Weladthi is sometimes used to mean home, but it seems to carry the connotations of where family is rather than a specific dwelling or place.
- Charn
- "Yes, Aes Sedai. My family still farms these fields. They are bringing in the harvest now."
- Taak, Aes Sedai.
- Weladthi vlagh'sor, hlin vlagha.
- Yes, Aes Sedai.
- (my) family field-work, (they are) harvesting (the) fields (now).
Vlagh'sor seems to mean "farm" here. Hlin, a word which is recorded as meaning "those who harvest", seems to also behave something like a participle here. Vlaghan is used as a plural of vlagh in Coming Home, but here it is heard without the terminating "n". It is possible that either the "n" is hard to hear, or that this is simply a variant plural.
Here, jalou is compressed to just jala, though it is possible that if written it would still be written as jalou'ti. "You should visit" is left implied.
- Charn
- "Today's too important for you, isn't it? I can go tomorrow."
- Ji'akai, ca'matuet aha
- Jalanu welakai.
- Today, (it is) too important (for) you,
- (I) can go tomorrow.
The most notable thing here is that Charn pronounces asa as "aha". This could be either a particular accent, a mistake either in listening to the audio or in saying the line, or it could represent an alternative form. The future tense here is used to indicate potentiality; "I can" is implied.
- Mierin
- "Tomorrow? Tomorrow everything will be different."
- Welakai?
- Welakai aes gadou!
- Tomorrow?
- Tomorrow all changes!
- Charn
- "I know it's not my place to ask... But what is it? That you've found?"
- Ah, choshih'ath, gavane? Nane asa jaevae?
- Ah, (it isn't my place) (but), what? Was (it) you found?
- Mierin
- "The thinnest part of the pattern. A place I think we can punch through... and find what's on the other side."
- Fonnai tamara'simp. Mozhlit ortu, jaendar logae.
- A place (where the) pattern-thins. Possibly (we can) open (it), (and) find the awaited (thing on the other side).
- Charn
- "And what's there?"
- Logae gavane?
- What is awaited (on the other side)?
- Mierin
- "A power... that can be used by men or women... The true power. It will change everything. Can you imagine? Something anyone, anywhere can use. Not just Lews Therin and the Aes Sedai. Even you, your family."
- Tarim bolar greal,
- asa, ninte weladthi,
- tarim bolar Lews Therin Aes Sedai.
- Not only special channelers,
- you, your family,
- not only special (channelers like) Lews Therin Aes Sedai.
- Mierin
- "They wouldn't have to bring in the harvest by hand."
- Charn
- "Yes, but... it feels good to. I can't explain it. To feel the wheat you grew in your hands... The soil you tilled beneath your feet... It feels good."
- Taak, no, hlan uiwa kutyalot vid sovin.
- Manu kutya kazka sovin'sa. Feros muad basho so soreat.
- Kutyalot uiwa hlan.
- Yes, but, harvesting feels good with hands.
- (I) think (the) feeling of grain in hands... Worked soil under (your) feet...
- (It) feels good (to) harvest).
- Mierin
- "Go. See your family. Sing your song."
Denu is the future tense of dena, used as a suggestion for what he should go do.
- Charn
- "Are you sure?"
Evidently, to say "are you sure", one idiomatic construction is "speak conflict?" or "speak in conflict (with what you just said)?, asking if she wishes to speak against what she just said.
- Mierin
- "There's nothing more important than holding on to the people you love."
- Duente ninte atha'ohlan ca'matuet sul sein.
- (It is) so important to hold (a) grip (on) them, your loved ones.
- Logae — Pronunciation
- Mierin pronounces this "lo-zhay." Charn repeats it as "lo-guy-eh."
- Aha
- Charn pronounces asa (you) as "aha" — a completely different phoneme.
- Gortista
- Likely a variant of gorista (use). "Mozhlit gortista aes atha'an" — "possible to use by all people."
- Tarim
- Appears twice in parallel constructions where "not just" or "not only" fits.