Omnos

Anna:

Immi daga uimpi geneta, I am a fair, pretty girl,

lana beððos et’ iouintutos. full of virtue and youthfulness.

Blatus ceti, cantla carami. The forest's flowers and songs I love.

Aia gnata uimpi iouinca, Hey, pretty young girl

pid in cete tu toue suoine, what are you doing in the forest alone,

pid uregisi peli doniobi? so far from all beings?

Aia gnata uimpi iouinca, Hey, pretty young girl

pid in cete tu toue suoine, what are you doing in the forest alone

Aia mape coime, adrete! Hey, handsome boy, come here!

In blatugabagli uorete, Let us pick some flowers

cante snon celiIui in cete! in this forest together!

Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti. (x2) Now only the deep pond awaits me. (x2)

N’immi mapos, immi drucocu. I am not a boy, I am the bad wolf.

In cetobi selgin agumi, In the woods I hunt,

selgin blatos tou’ iouintutos. hunt for the flower of your youth.

Nu, uoregon, cu, uorigamos, Well, wolf, let us play a game,

lamman, cu, suuercin lingamos, let us dance a joyful dance,

indui uelui cantla canamos! let us sing decent songs!

N’immi mapos, immi drucocu. I am not a boy, I am the bad wolf.

In cetobi selgin agumi, In the woods I hunt,

Ne moi iantus gnaton uorega, I don't like children's games,

iantus drucocunos uoregon, I like playing sinister wolf games

cante toi in medie cete. in the depths of the forest, with you.

Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti. (x2) Now only the deep pond awaits me. (x2)

Cu allate, papon sod urege, eððiIo de iantu in cridie. Wild wolf, do whatever your heart longs for,

VediIumi: cante moi uosta! But I beg you: Stay with me!

Chrigel:

Ne, a gnata, ne uostami, ne te carami! No, girl, I'm not staying with you and don't love you.

Anna:

Boua daga uimpi geneta. I was a fair and pretty girl.

Immi trouga, lana nariIas. Now I'm poor and overcome with shame.

Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti. (x2) Now only the deep pond awaits me. (x2)

Hello,

I don't know gaulish, but I believe there's an error in the translation.

First, it is clear that verbs in first person present end in -mi immi = I am carami = I love uostami.. etc

Now I see that you translate "In cetobi selgin agumi" as "in the woods I hunt".

We know from verses 3 and 5 that "cet-" means forest. So "in cetobi" has be "in the woods", since it uses the preposition "in" plus a declession that is really similar to latin albative. That leaves us with "selgin" and "agumi".

The next verse is "selgin blatos tou iouintutos" and you translate "hunt for the flower of your youth". We already know that "blat-" is flower ( Because: Blatus ceti, cantla carami = The forest's flowers and songs I love;; ceti is genitive, cantla is like "chanting" "cantus" "canto" etc in all western languages I can think of) And "tou iouintutos" is clearly genitive, "iouintut-" is equivalent to latin "iuentut-" = youth.

So "selgin" must be the verb "hunt" in both places, and there is no other possibility left since I've found the meaning of the other words. It has to mean "hunt".

We already noticed that first person present ends in "-mi". Selgin does not. Agumi does.

What is "agumi" then? It's not translated! I guess that agumi is a verb that denotes a continuous action like "i am used to..", "i usually do..", like latin "soleo". And "selgin"? I believe it is an infinitive. Which is consistent with present-day germanic languages, whose infinitives mostly end in "-en".

Is that right? If not, what's the meaning of "agumi"?

-- Andres Baldrich

That's an impressive analysis Andres.

I've studied Scots Gaelic and some Irish (and a bit of Welsh) and there is quite a bit that I recognise in here. I've looked at Gaulish and Cornish before and recognise significant Gaelic matches. Where Scots and Irish Gaelic differ the Gaulish and Cornish words match the Scots Gaelic(Pictish?).

lana(full) is like lán (full) blat- (flower) is like blath (flower) cantla(songs) is like caint (chat) carami(I love) is like cara(a friend) and mi(I) doniobi(beings, people?) is like daoine(people/men) or Welsh dynion(people/men) tu is tu (you) mape(boy) is like Welsh map(son), Gaelic mac(son)

Lindos(pool) is like linn(pool) e.g. Dublin / Dubh linn (black pool)

N’immi mapos, immi drucocu(I'm not a boy I'm the bad wolf) is close to Nil mé mac, is mé droch cú (I'm not a son, I'm a bad dog(hunting dog/hound))

selgin agumi(I hunt) is like Tha sealg agam. Sealg is indeed hunt and agam literally means 'at me' but is used for posession. Tha sgian agam (A knife is at me / I have a knife) but also, as you rightly deduce, can be used to state a habitual activity so Tha sealg agam (I have hunting / I go hunting) instead of selgmi(I hunt) as you pointed out.

cridie(heart) is like cridhe(heart) in SG and Croí(heart) in Irish

I don't think the translation is exact I think it has been given a deeper meaning; cante clearly means with: cante toi (with you) cante moi uosta! (with me stay) so uosta means stay and then: Ne, a gnata, ne uostami, ne te carami! (No, girl, I'm not staying with you and don't love you.) Or more literally: No, girl, not stay me, not you I love (No girl, I won't stay, I don't love you)

NB That 'a' in 'a gnata'(calling her 'girl') is typical gaelic vocative case. 'hey, a chailíni' (hey girls), 'hello a Chaluim' (hello Calum).

Then we have present tense Immi(I am) Gaelic=Is mi, changes to past tense Boua(I was) Gaelic=Ba mi

And then some more embellishing: Immi trouga, lana nariIas which they tell us means Now I'm poor and overcome with shame

Except there is no word for 'now' in there (only implied) and the word given for 'overcome' is in fact lana again which Gaelic suggests means full, complete, total. So it translates more closely as I am poor, full of shame. Oh! and I've just noticed, nariIas(shame) is like Gaelic and Irish náire and Gaelic truagh means wretched/miserable so Gaulish Immi trouga, lana nariIas is very close to Gaelic Is mi truagh, làn nàire English I am wretched, full of shame

And finally we have Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti, which obviously means I'm off to Dublin to get pissed ;-)

These can be checked at http://www.faclair.com/ (Scots Gaelic) and www.potafocal.com (Irish)

...and the more I think about it the more the last verse is wrong too.

Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti. Now only the deep pond awaits me.

The Now is implied again, not written so Vrit=For? me=me lindos=pool dubnon must mean black, not deep, Gaelic dubh, Welsh du, Cornish du, piseti=wait

Here: http://www.angelfire.com/me/ik/gaulish.html PISSIUMI is defined as "I shall see". The -mi suffix clearly means I so the pis- bit must mean Will see. Is that the same as Wait?

Vrit- me lindos dubnon -piseti. For me the black pool waits

Changing my mind again ....

"The Now is implied again, not written so Vrit=For? me=me lindos=pool dubnon must mean black, not deep, Gaelic dubh, Welsh du, Cornish du, piseti=wait"

My mistake, Gaelic 'domhain' = deep, Gaulish 'dubnon' = deep. Obvious really.