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[Help!] "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" translation

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[Help!] "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter" translation

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Fabula lignatoris bambusae (Iaponice 竹取物語, Anglice The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter ) saeculo nono vel decimo scribebatur. Narratio vivens antiquissima Iaponica putatur.

Haec est interpretatio directa sex versuum primarum famossisimorum a me ex textu primitivo Iaponice antique neque e interpretatione textu Iaponice recens neque Anglice.


Agnosco quod multi errores sunt in hoc textu. Magni asetimo ad auxilium futurum tuum!!


FABVLA LIGNATORIS BAMBVSAE
(竹取物語)  


・Olim erat vir qui "Senex lignator bambusae" vocabatur.
(いまはむかし、たけとりの翁といふものありけり)  

・Senex in campum et montem intrare solebat atque bambusas tondere ad adhibendum ad varias res.  
(野山にまじりて竹をとりつつ、よろづのことにつかひけり)  

・Ei nomen est "Miyakko de Sanuko".  
(名をば、さぬきのみやつことなむいひける)


・Inter bambusas est una linea bambusae cuius basis illusturat.
(その竹の中に、もと光る竹なむ一すぢありける )

・Admiratus appropinquavit et vidit ad internam tubi bambusae illustrandum.
(あやしがりて、寄りてみるに、筒の中なか光たり)

・Ubi videt, puellula quae tres pedes alta est perquam pulchre sedet.
(それを見れば、三寸ばかりなる人、いとうつくしうてゐたり)


verva nova

lignātor: -ris, m, A woodcutter, lumberjack, somebody who is sent to collect wood or firewood.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lignator#Latin  

bambusa: -ae, f, (new latin) bamboo
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bambusa

tondeō: tondēre (2nd conj), I crop, prune, trim.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tondeo#Latin  

Sanukium (?): Oppidulum Sanukium (?), Sanuki township/ village

pulchrē: ad. beautifully
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulchre#Latin

Inceptor linguae Latinae sum. Latine scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar.
(I'm Latin beginner. I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction.)

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