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December 15

Deciphering Latin from a song again

Hello again, I would like some help deciphering the Latin spoken in the first 18 seconds of this song, and then translate them if possible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlVgY9ShT8 (Duration is from 00:00 to 00:18)

There is a comment that has noted it is an excerpt from a funeral prayer, ″it means something old is dying, so something new can begin″; There are numerous classical and new/contemporary Latin in both fiction and spoken quotes I've heard and listened to and I can't keep track of them all, so I would like to confirm this.

Edit: Nevermind what I said about the funeral prayer comment; after closer listening it sounds very similar to Psalm 129 of the Vulgate, but some things seem off, or I'm just not remembering things well. ″De profundis clamavi ad te Domine″ seems to spark this memory.

Thank you in advance --72.235.231.236 (talk) 08:37, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's just De profundis. I can hear the first bit at least (De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Domine, exaudi vocem meam), until the music drowns out the voice. Adam Bishop (talk) 13:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Georgian, Armenian surnames

I notice a lot of Georgian surnames end with -ashvili or -ishvili. Does that suffix have a particular meaning? Similarly with Armenian -ian/-yan. Thanks! 173.228.123.166 (talk) 19:04, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It mean "child of" (there is a separate suffix for "son of"). See Georgian name. --Xuxl (talk) 19:22, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also see Armenian name#Surnames. Deor (talk) 20:05, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks-- those articles are interesting. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 20:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]