Highland Totonac – Page 3

deny oneself

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.)

praise (God)

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The Greek and Hebrew that is translated as “praise (God)” in English is translated in a nuymber of ways:

Tae’: “make-great” / “make-great the name”
Western Highland Purepecha / Morelos Nahuatl: “speak well of”
San Blas Kuna / Kpelle: “lift up the name”
Huehuetla Tepehua: “sing the name”
Highland Totonac: “make good”
Tzeltal: “say good about”
Navajo: “make known something good about” (source for this and above: Reiling / Swellengrebel)
Isthmus Mixe: “place (God) big”
Chuj: “say good words about (God)”
San Mateo del Mar Huave: “honor (Father God)” (source for this and three above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)

In Dan a figurative expression for praising God is used: “push God’s horse.” “In the distant past people closely followed the horses ridden by chiefs, so ‘pushing’ them.” (Source: Don Slager)

slanderer

The Greek that is translated as “slanderer” or “backbiter” or similar in English is translated as “raised up lies about their fellow people” in Central Mazahua, as “talk ugly about their fellows” in Chicahuaxtla Triqui, as “those who give a vicious twist to what they hear” in Highland Totonac, and as “hunted people’s sin” in Huehuetla Tepehua. (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)

generations

The Greek that is rendered as “generations” in English versions is translated into Sierra Totonac as “growings.” (2nd translation into Sierra Totonac of 1999.)

See also (this) generation and all generations.

humble, lowly

The Greek that is usually translated as “humble” or “lowly” in English is translated in Eastern Highland Otomi as “one who doesn’t elevate himself,” in Yatzachi Zapotec as “those who think they aren’t worth much,” in Alekano as “those who stay low” (source: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.), in Mezquital Otomi as “poor brothers,” in Isthmus Zapotec as “the one is little honored,” in Highland Totonac as “just ordinary people,” and in Yatzachi Zapotec as “poor people who have nothing” (source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.).

not enlightened

The Greek that is translated as “not enlightened” or similar in English is translated as “don’t understand how God likes it” in Huehuetla Tepehua, as “not in the correct way” in Highland Totonac, and as “don’t know what God wants” in Yatzachi Zapotec. (Source: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)

justification, justify

The Greek that is translated as “justify” in English is translated into Tzotzil in two different ways. One of those is with Lec xij’ilatotic yu’un Dios ta sventa ti ta xc’ot ta o’ntonal ta xch’unel ti Jesucristoe (“we are seen well by God because of our faith in Jesus Christ”) (source: Aeilts, p. 118) and the other is “God sees as righteous” (source: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.).

Other (back-) translations include:

Bilua: “straigthened” (Rom 3:20: “Nobody can be straightened in God’s presence…”) (source: Carl Gross) (see also: righteous)
Western Highland Purepecha: “he sees him with the goodness of his Son” (“justification”)
Highland Puebla Nahuatl: “heart-straightening”
Western Kanjobal: “having a straight soul” (source for this and two above: Nida 1952, p. 145)
Central Mazahua: “no longer carrying sin in God’s estimation.”
Rincón Zapotec: “come out good before God”
Guhu-Samane: “God called one right” (source for this and two above: Ellis Deibler in Notes on Translation July, 1967, p. 5ff.)
Mairasi: “already straight: completely clean” (source: Enggavoter 2004)
Uma: “straight in God’s sight” (Source: Uma back-translation)
Yakan: “be reckoned straight/righteous by God” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
Ekari: “maa nigajawii (“deem us right through favor”) (source: Marion Source in The Bible Translator 1963, p. 37f. )
Tzeltal: “exonerated us of our sin in God’s sight” (source: Marianna C. Slocum in The Bible Translator 1958, p. 49f. )
Kwara’ae: “regard as righteous” (source: Norman Deck in The Bible Translator 1963, p. 34ff. )
Manikion: “heart sits next to Jesus” (source: Daud Soesilo)
Obolo: ben itip-oyerebet isan̄a: “take away condemnation” (source: Enene Enene)
Kui: “to obtain release to become a righteous person” (source: Helen Evans in The Bible Translator 1954, p. 40ff. )
Highland Totonac: “make free”
Sayula Popoluca: “call righteous”
Isthmus Zapotec: “clean hearts”
Central Tarahumara: “make people to be right-doing”
Tzeltal: “straighten heart” (Source for this and two above: Waterhouse / Parrott in Notes on Translation October 1967, p. 1ff.)
Warao: “straighten obonja.” Obonja is a term that “includes the concepts of consciousness, will, attitude, attention and a few other miscellaneous notions” (source: Henry Osborn in The Bible Translator 1969, p. 74ff. See other occurrences of Obojona in the Warao New Testament.)

faithful

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The Greek that is rendered as “faithful” in English is (back-) translated in various ways:

Toraja-Sa’dan: “honest/straight”
North Alaskan Inupiatun: “unchangeable”
Highland Totonac “one who fulfills” (source for this and above: Reiling / Swellengrebel)
Tsou: “actively following closely” (source: Peng Kuo-Wei)
Mende: “doesn’t turn this way and that” (source: Rob Koops)
Sinasina: “following well” (source: Paratext Consultant Notes)
Enlhet “doesn’t go past his word” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1969, p. 24ff. )
Kituba “put one’s heart into it” (source: Donald Deer in The Bible Translator 1973, p. 207ff. )
Noongar: hkoort-karni or “heart true” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)

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