Chipaya – TIPs

spit upon

The Greek that is translated in English as “spit” is translated in Chipaya as “eject saliva” (source: Ronald D. Olson in Notes on Translation January, 1968, p. 15ff.).

In Noongar it is narridja-kwarda or “spittle-throw” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).

take up their cross

The Greek that is translated as “take up their cross” in English is translated in Galela as “let go of each of their desires in their hearts” (source: Howard Shelden in Kroneman 2004, p. 501).

In Korku it is translated as “take up trouble for me to the extent that he would be ready to give his life on the cross for me,” and in Chipaya as “be ready to suffer, even die.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)

In the German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999) it is translated as with Kreuz und Schande auf sich nehmen or “take up the cross and shame.”

deny oneself

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The Greek that is translated with “deny himself” or “deny oneself” is according to Bratcher / Nida “without doubt one of the most difficult expressions in all of Mark to translate adequately.” These are many of the (back-) translations:

Tetelcingo Nahuatl: “not accept self”
Amganad Ifugao and South Bolivian Quechua: “forget self”
North Alaskan Inupiatun: “have no regard for oneself”
Toraja-Sa’dan: “not bother oneself about oneself”
Huautla Mazatec: “cover up oneself”
San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: “not worship oneself”
Tzeltal: “stop doing what one’s own heart wants”
Yaka: “let go that which he wants to do oneself”
Cashibo-Cacataibo: “say, I will not do just what I want to do”
Tzotzil: “say, I do not serve for anything” (in the sense of having no personal value)
Sapo: “not do what is passing through one’s mind”
Central Mazahua: “not take constant thought for oneself”
Tabasco Chontal: “quit what one wants”
Highland Totonac: “undo one’s own way of thinking”
Dan: “put one’s own things down”
Kekchí: “despise oneself”
Kituba: “refuse oneself”
Javanese: “turn one’s back on oneself”
Southern Bobo Madaré: “disobey oneself” (in the sense of denying one’s own wishes)
Huastec: “leave oneself at the side”
Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “leave one’s own way”
Loma: “take one’s mind out of oneself completely”
Panao Huánuco Quechua: “say, I do not live for myself”
Mitla Zapotec: “say No to oneself” (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
Copainalá Zoque: “forgetting self”
Huallaga Huánuco Quechua: “declare, I do not live for myself” (source: Nida 1952, p. 154)
Galela: “put self down” (source: Howard Shelden in Kroneman 2004, p. 501)
Mairasi: “shuffle out of one’s vision (=forget) everything which is one’s own” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
Q’anjob’al: “do not belong to oneself any longer” (source: Newberry and Kittie Cox in The Bible Translator 1950, p. 91ff. )
Achi: “don’t do only what one wants to do”
Chipaya: “leave one’s own way of living” (source for this and above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)

goes out into the sewer

The Greek that is translated as “goes out into the sewer” is translated in Kuku-Yalanji as “doesn’t stay there” and in Chipaya as “it goes to the outside.” (Source: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)

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