Tombstone transcription -need translation please - language?

Judy · Post by **Judy** » 25 Apr 2004 05:37

Hi

This is from a tombstone. Can you help me?

ANT ATMINTIES
WINCENTA KWEDARA
MELDZIU SUKALBIE
TI TRIS SWEIKAMA
RIIES MIRE 1918

I checked all major language machine-translators available online but it's not a major language I guess. Some thought it was polish, but it doesn't translate there either.

This came from Southwestern Pennsylvania (USA) where many immigrants lived and worked in coal mines. So it could be any possible language, I guess. Thank you in advance.

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » 25 Apr 2004 08:24

Judy wrote:Some thought it was polish, but it doesn't translate there either.

if it comes from that area the w suggests Polish names or influence, so if it is not Slavic it might be Lithuanian
-- Olivier

didine · Post by **didine** » 25 Apr 2004 11:15

Looks a bit like Lithuanian indeed, but it's not that either... or at least not 100%.

AmL · Post by **AmL** » 26 Apr 2004 11:44

hi!
For sure it's not polish.
But i know a lot of Dutch people worked in Pennsylvania at that time. maybe that's Dutch?

Maïwenn · Post by **Maïwenn** » 26 Apr 2004 12:53

I don't speak Dutch, but this doesn't look like Dutch at all to me...

Nephilim · Post by **Nephilim** » 26 Apr 2004 20:55

neither czech nor slovak nor romanian...i thought of polish, because of the "W" in the name of the guy (WINCENT KWEDAR) and of the "DZI" sound in "MELDZIU" but indeed it ain't polish...maybe some old slavic dialect?

Latinus · Post by **Latinus** » 26 Apr 2004 21:10

When I search after "ANT ATMINTIES" in google, I have some pages in "lt".
May it be lithuanian ?

Olivier · Post by **Olivier** » 26 Apr 2004 22:02

Latinus wrote:some pages in "lt"

yes, lt = Lithuania, and lv = Latvia (Lettonie in French)
there is a Lithuanian native translator on freelang.net
-- Olivier

Judy · Post by **Judy** » 30 Apr 2004 01:04

Judy wrote:Hi This is from a tombstone. Can you help me?

ANT ATMINTIES
WINCENTA KWEDARA
MELDZIU SUKALBIE
TI TRIS SWEIKAMA
RIIES MIRE 1918

I checked all major language machine-translators available online but it's not a major language I guess. Some thought it was polish, but it doesn't translate there either.

This came from Southwestern Pennsylvania (USA) where many immigrants lived and worked in coal mines. So it could be any possible language, I guess. Thank you in advance.

Hi I thought I should post the translation, since you all were so kind in trying to help me. This info was sent by an Embassy to a friend:

"Mystery solved! This is what I received from the embassy.

"Gramatically it is not completely correct, plus there are no Ws in Lithuanian
language, but basically it says:

In memory of Vincentas Kvedaras
I urge you to say three "Hail Marry's
Died in 1918

Hope it helps,
Marius P.
Head of Chancellery"

Beaumont · Post by **Beaumont** » 30 Apr 2004 04:39

Thank you for the feedback !

LokaNova et Freelang

Tombstone transcription -need translation please - language?

Tombstone transcription -need translation please - language?

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