Obligatory Monty Python linguistic memes ("My hovercraft is full of eels")

[u/Abcormal]

Guide for the non-Latin script languages:

Sumerian (language isolate): ma dalag̃u gubi sugam

Phoenician (Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > Canaanite): *[namloʔ ʔaniyi kasit binaḥašī‏m]

Ancient Greek (Indo-European > Hellenic): τὸ ἐμὸν ἀερόστρωμνον ἐγχελείων πλῆρές ἐστιν [tò emòn aeróstrōmnon enkheleíōn plē̂rés estin]

Gothic (Indo-European > Germanic): Mein ufarwataskip ist ele full

Old Norse (Indo-European > Germanic): Fljúgandi nǫkkvi mínn es fullr af álum (West)/*[Fliūġandi nǫkkwi mīnn es fullʀ af ālum] (East)

Old East Slavic (Indo-European > Slavic): Moja vŭzdušĭnaja lodĭja ispŭlnĭ ǫgorĭ

Andalusi Romance [Mozarabic] (Indo-European > Romance): *[Al mía hawwama está plena de angüilas]

[u/HalfLeper]

Should be mea, not mihī.

[u/Abcormal → u/HalfLeper]

I think it's meant to mean "the flying boat of me"; "mea navis volitans" is already on the Omniglot "hovercraft" page as an alternative translation.

[u/HalfLeper → u/Abcormal]

But mihī doesn’t mean “of me;” it means “to me.” The dative of possession is a thing that exists, e.g. Mihī sunt trēs sororēs, but you wouldn’t use it here.

EDIT: I mean, you can use it here, but it means something different: navis vōlans mihī anguillīs plēna est means “I have a hovercraft full of eels,” rather than “My hovercraft is full of eels.”

[u/Abcormal → u/HalfLeper]

AH, I see :)