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OK, I translated the English translation of the Romansh story into Latin so that we can directly compare the two. Vulpes iterum esuriebat. | La vulp era puspè
by schoen 4y ago
OK, I translated the English translation of the Romansh story into Latin so that we can directly compare the two.
Vulpes iterum esuriebat. | La vulp era puspè ina giada fomentada.
Ibi corvum in abie vidit, qui fragmen casei rostro tenebat. | Qua ha ella vis sin in pign in corv che tegneva in toc chaschiel en ses pichel.
"Hunc vellem," pensavit, et clamavit ad corvum: | Quai ma gustass, ha ella pensà, ed ha clamà al corv:
"Quam pulcher es! | «Tge bel che ti es!
Si cantus tuus tam bellus quam vultus tuus est, tu bellissima omnium avium es!" | Sche tes chant è uschè bel sco tia parita, lur es ti il pli bel utschè da tuts».
(Some Romansh words whose likely Latin ancestors I didn't use, because it was less idiomatic, or sometimes actually grammatically impossible: era < erat, fomentada < fames, gustass < gustavissem, ella < illa, parita < apparentia, pli < plus, tuts < totos. I probably missed some others by not noticing the etymology.)