Re: Why does English have so few compound words?

On 16 Nov 2006 04:06:45 -0800, "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx"
<ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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in sci.lang:

Brian M. Scott wrote:

[...]

Af þeira ætt er sú kynslóð komin,
From their union is the family-line come
From them has come the family line

er vér köllum Ása ættir,
COMP we call of-Æsir kinsfolk,
that we call the Æsir kinsfolk,

er bygt hafa Ásgarð ok þau ríki,
COMP inhabited have Ásgarðr and those realms,
who have inhabited Ásgarð and the realms

er þar liggja til.
COMP there lie to.
which belong to it.

What does COMP mean?

Complementizer.

er is a generic relative pronoun meaning that,
which, who (and where?).

<Er> is an all-purpose subordinating conjunction. Often
it's best translated 'when':

En er hann kom á Péttlandsfjörð, ...
But when he came to Pentland-Firth, ...

Ok er þeir váru búnir, sigldu þeir í haf.
And when they were ready, they sailed out to sea.

Sometimes it doesn't really translate at all:

Guð heyrir bœnir várar, hvar er vér biðjum fyrir oss
af öllu hjarta.
God hears our prayers wherever we pray from our
whole heart.

Tölðu þeir þat óráð at leggja til bardaga við Þorgeir,
þat er hann hafði lið meira.
They said it was a bad idea to go to battle with
Þorgeirr, since he had the bigger force.

Brian
.

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