Charn Speaks With Mierin

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.

Mierin: "They wouldn't have to bring in the harvest by hand."

Spiat hlan. Tarim pi'hlan vid sovin'sor.

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.

Mierin: "Go. See your family. Sing your song."

Jalou.

Heatsu ninte weladthi.

Denu perant.

Charn: "Are you sure?"

Dai nosane?

Mierin: "There's nothing more important than holding on to the people you love."

Duente ninte atha'ohlan ca'matuet sul sein.

Notes

Mierin: "It's a beautiful song."; An'am dena.

"Of beauty song" or "(it is a) song of beauty".

Mierin: "You're from here, aren't you?"; Weladthi kodome?

"Family here" 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 (farm), (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.

Mierin: "You should go visit them."; Jala'ti sein.

"Go to them." 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) will 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 implicit.

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, gavane? Nane asa javae?

"Ah, (it isn't my place) (but), what? Was (it) you found?"

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.

Charn Speaks With Mierin

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