[2.] Bába (cf. [page 24, note 2]). Cóaja (two syllabic, pronounce oa = ō, and j as in German), Roumanian, related to Lat. “cortex” and Eng. “cork.”
[3.] Alba (from Lat: albus, a, um, “white”).
[4.] es (introductory and grammatical subject). Logical subject? Cf. [page 16, note 5].
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[1.] da´mit (emphat.) = hiermit; mit diesen Worten.
[2.] werde. Why the subjunctive? Cf. [page 2, note 7].
[3.] wie sehr (wie sehr . . . auch), no matter how much, however much.
[4.] Alba, here: dative case.
[5.] wie gern wäre sie. Comp. er hätte gern ([page 12, note 3]), and sie hätte am liebsten ([page 14, note 1]).
[6.] es wird mir traurig ums Herz (idiomat. impers. phrase), I (begin to) feel gloomy (heavy, depressed, melancholy), I am heavy at heart.