Re: [tied] Re: Writing text in PIE?

Not a bad job. A few obvious corrections so far:

Verbs: Reduplicated *pi-ph3-e- is a present stem. The preterite should be something like *(e-)pih3-o-m -- and however you decide to translate "polluted", its perfect would be more appropriate here. The preterite of "die" should be something else. If you insist on using the root *mer-, perhaps the sigmatic form *(e-)me(:)r-s-t would do.

Nouns: the nominative of "father" should be *ph2te:r, and the accusative of *ware:n should be *warenm, not "*warnm".

The particle *kWe expresses conjunction rather than sequence ("and then"). I think something like the following would read better: "Having seized the lamb, the wolf took him away; in the bottom of the forest then (he) ate him".

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: Writing text in PIE?

I'll have a go, then. English in square brackets is where my PIE vocabulary has given out. I welcome all suggestions and comments. I have likely made many errors. The laryngeals are represented by ! 2 3. You is sing., y'all is pl. > A lamb was playing in a stream. ware:n !e[play]et sreumni > A wolf said to the lamb: wlkWos !ewekWet warnei > "You have muddied my drink. I will prosecute you for that.". 'e[pollute]es aqwa:m ya:m 'epip3om. [prosecute]o:mi te to:i > The lamb said "But I was well downstream from you". ware:n !ewekWet: !e!esm !su supo tebHei > The wolf said wlkWos !ewekWet > "But you have muddied it. 'e[pollute]es tod. > And my father died because of you". !mos kWe p2tr !emorjet [from, through] tebHei > The lamb said "How can I be responsible for something that happened > before I was born?". > The wolf said "If it wasn't you, it was one of your people. > Y'all have scarcely spared me, > y'all, y'all's shepherds, and y'all's dogs.". > And the wolf seized the lamb and took him away, wlkWos kWe !e[seize]et warnm !ap!ebheret kWe tom. > and in the bottom of the forest ate him. > The rich always turn the law to get what they want.