three more virtues

toad, worm, eye

Sorry the post is late, got a late start yesterday. Here's the next three virtues from that set of nine I mentioned. Lots of new vocab.

• POMEG “simplicity, simpleness” from P-M “to be simple” & -G suffix to make it a noun

• OĠEÐE “[it is] stalwart” Ġ-Ð “to be stalwart, enduring”

• ULENEG “without question, questionless” from L-N “to query, to question”, -G to make a noun, U- negative prefix

• VOÐEL-PEHEG “[act of] leaping-to-there” from VEÐEL “there” in the locative, P-H “to jump, to leap”

• FETHEL-SHIÐEG “[act of] remaining here” from FETHEL “here”… should be in the locative. Should be FOTHEG. Whoops. and SH-Ð “to linger, hesitate, doubt”

• OKENE “[it is] good”, transitively “is better [than]” K-N “to be good”

• G-SH-SH “worm”

• ÐOZESH “rot, decomposition, mulch, compost” in locative

• P-TH “to be humble”

• S-P “to die”, might have come up before i forget

• Ð-V “to live”

• K-M “to strive, to toil”

• V-ZH “to change, to transform

• not sure I like how I constructed “turn X into Y” where both are accusative and order determines which is which… I considered putting the thing being transformed in instrumental, but then it's indistinguishable from “transforming by application of X”.

  

• N-F “to pretend, to be false”

• N-X-S “foe”, an a-a noun

• S-ZH-K “eye”

• CH-TH “to cut” is also “to discern, distinguish”

• V-CH “to be sharp”

• CH-S-M “dross, chaff, dust”

• Ġ-NG “to be dull, plain”

• ZH-B-SH “grain, seeds”

• V-M “to shine, the gleam”

• L-CH “to winnow, to sift”

• X-M-TH “[geometric] face, facet, surface”

• L-F-TH “that which is beautiful”

So, altogether, something like:

The toad's virtue is in stalwart simplicity:
it consumes, questionless,
thither-leaping is better than here-lingering.

The worm's virtue is in humble rot:
it toils to transform death into life,
foeless and without pretense.

The eye's virtue is in sharp discernment:
it winnows the dull chaff from the bright grain,
and cuts facets into that which is beautiful.

Catch me next week with the final three virtues, and then maybe after that a nice written version of the whole thing.