Hi Arianwen, Again, I'll try and provide you with answers which a native speaker would probably be better able to do :-) Again, sorry if this is a bit rushed. ...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Nov 1, 2001 5:39 pm
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... Does Gaelic still have relative verb forms? Padraic....
... err... actually you've put "the man who heard me" but I only spotted it at the third look. ... SG and Manx do in the future tense (excepting one or two...
carrot@...
Nov 2, 2001 7:51 pm
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... I hope you don't have the diphthong /ew/ though I suppose you could write <eu>. ... Irish has /o:/ > /ua/ or /u@/ and /e:/ > /ia/ or /i@/ before...
carrot@...
Nov 3, 2001 7:07 pm
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... I've got Sihler's Comparative Latin and Greek grammar. Loads of IE stuff in there; plus I've got that IE book Christophe sent me. What is it you're after? ...
... Well I don't know either of these but they sound useful. One problem is that much of the stuff I have is decades old (95th impression kind of thing, or...
carrot@...
Nov 4, 2001 12:30 am
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... This was published in 1995 and is full of bewildering laryngeals and other such things that I wasn't taught (my teacher was in turn a student of J....
And only IRP15! It's a brand new copy and I'm shocked at how cheaply I managed to get it. My flatmate Seamus thinks I've gone mad with this messing with OI -...
... E. V. Gordon's "Introduction to Old Norse" is a classic, and has a lot of good points (including reading exercises and a small dictionary). There are ...
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 03:21:34PM -0500, Padraic Brown wrote: I replied to this last night and the computer ate it, so briefly ... ... Hmm, it used to seem to...
carrot@...
Nov 5, 2001 7:39 pm
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... I bought a copy perhaps ten years back in Aberystwyth, and I now see that it has £15 (sterling) penciled on the flyleaf, so it looks like you really have...
carrot@...
Nov 5, 2001 7:39 pm
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... Well, mine cost £10! :-) ... Indeed. ... It's a bit hard to read from cover to cover, certainly. Some of it is erroneous, like the idea that there were 3...
Geoff Eddy
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Nov 5, 2001 8:14 pm
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... There wasn't a nother, was there? ... E.V. Gordon's is the best I've seen. Then again, I've not seen many, and they were all very old. Mind you, Gordon is...
... Seems to be. But I'm not really in a position to judge. ... No. Other than to say that PIE has an "oddly meager ration" of sounds like these. As you know,...
... Some of it is ... Actually, that's NOT erroneous. It was pointed out that it was more convenient to treat the system as if there were only palatal and...
... Yeah, it's gone completely from Irish. There might be some set phrases that retain it, but I can't think of any off the top of my head ... Now I know where...
... [...] ... Great stuff, I'll take a look at those. ... I'd been poking around the linguistics section of Waterstone's bookshop in UCC and got it into my...
Hello, I am a new member and my name is Antonio ("Alounis"). After many years devoted to the hobby of old languages, I am very advanced in the task of create a...
... Gwaleth, Alounis. Welcome to the list- here you'll find a quiet yet talented group of people. The list tends to be very quiet mostly, with occasional...
... "The good health of a the fish!" In the Armorican Islands fish are supposed to be especially healthy- thus if someone toasts "de new yach-ny" to our ...
... I don't know exactly what are your problems with verbs, but here are some suggestions, if they can help: I see that your language is a kind of neo-Celtic....
... Makes sense. Especially for folk as rely on fishing as a principle industry. So, "sandez math dy pheckes!" from the fishers of bonny Dunein. la sandez...
... That there are too few known forms of Gaulish verbs known. To my knowledge, there aren't enough forms to make up a paradigm - any paradigm - comparable to...
... <grins> I'm native Breton. I don't really want to calque any p-celtic verbal system as I would end up with bad Cornish. I was more wondering if you had any...
... Ha neo ket braou? ... I think Pokorny gives some - though it's been _ages_ since I opened that book. I'll take a look, though. ... Excellent!! I like it!...
... Gaulish or Brythonic or even Common ... tense. If the ... Thurneysen does not provide with direct reconstruction of Old Celtic, but that previous stage can...
... Like English. Cool. I've always liked that about the Germanic verb system. ... Similar to the Latin -b- future (and imperfect). ... ?? ... Padraic. Bethez...
... Basically you need to pick your way through the small print paragraphs at the end of each section. I've got some scattered notes somewhere, but I want to...
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