LE ROMAN DU LIÈVRE

For over a decade Jimmy Riordan has been working with and around Francis Jammes’ turn of the century French novel Le Roman du Lièvre. Beginning with his amateur effort to translate the story without knowing French, Riordan’s Le Roman du Lièvre Project(LRdL) continues to reimagine itself and the arrangement of its various parts.

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ELLANG’UQ

ellange- to obtain awareness; to have one’s first experience(s) that leave(s) a lasting memory # ellanguq ‘he obtained awareness’ / Maaten-gguq ellanguq mat’umun nunakegtaarmun tanqircetqapiarluni camek-llu-gguq cali nalluami yuucini-llu nalluamiu murilkessiyaagpek’nani. ‘It was at that time, it is said, that she became aware of the bright beautiful world. Because she didn’t know anything yet and didn’t even know that she was a human being she did not observe very much.’ (ELN 1990:3); < ella-nge-;

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From the second edition of the Yup’ik Dictionary compiled by Steven A, Jacobson