Hello everyone, Doranwen appears for a brief visit. School has kept me too busy to visit my groups lately. I'd not done much on Gela`ch recently--all my...
... Wow, I guess we'd better say howdy before you disappear into the ether once again. ... Cool. Let us know how the Project was taken by your teachers! This...
... *bhu. Ysser is triradical: es-/er-, fu-/fo-, and bi-/bod-. Bodoer is the imperfect, composed of the root bod- plus the past ending -eor. There is no real...
... I guess I should have completed the scheme by adding the imperative of forer. Also mind that the infinitive and imperative (nor any of the verbal nouns, ...
I came across a bunch of lines in a book, part of them in poem format, in English, and wondered what the translation would be into either Irish or Scottish...
... Show me your SG attempt, I might be able to improve it or at least straighten out the grammar a bit. Looks like it's been inspired by Old Irish and/or Old...
Keith
carrot@...
Dec 3, 2002 2:00 am
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... Anything in brackets [] are words I couldn't figure out, either to translate, or mutate (m.) or make plural (pl.) or conjugate (conj.). I used the...
Hello group! My Name is Matthew. I'm Fourteen years old, and am generally new to conlanging. I've joined this group because I like the way that Celtic...
... Bengweneth! Are you also subscribed to Conlang? It's base is broader than this quiet corner, and you'll get a wider range of responses to any questions...
Normal, I mean as use it as a writing system, an alternative to English, and eventually teach it to my children. I have yet to begin work on this, I dont know...
... Cor. Now that was a sticking point when it was brought up on Conlang several years ago (the morality of teaching a child a constructed language a là those...
Well of course I shall teach them the national language as well as my conlang, the conlang seving as sort of a "talk to your parents-around the home-religious...
... No doubt! Padraic. ===== beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima; pe' ne m' molestyont que faciont doazque y facyont in...
Hello Matthew! Welcome! You'll have to pardon us - we tend to be quiet, with intermittent spates of busy. We are excited to have such a young guy here - I...
Sounds good to me. So, I guess the first part is to decide what kind of Celticonlang you want - something vaguely welshy, or irishy (as characteristic of the...
I don't speak any Celtic languages, but I've a few books on Gaelic, Welsh and Irish, plus access to Welsh and Irish, if i should want to learn them at some...
... I'm hoping to work on applying Romanian sound changes to Gaulish - I know, I know, let me back that up: being, as I am, in France I have access to a lot of...
Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Dec 28, 2002 11:12 am
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... Don't forget to use the wonderful resources of the Celticaconlang list, with files. Reconstructing can be fun, but if you use work that's been done before,...
... Thanks for the tip: here's a question. I've been on the list for a couple years now, but I could have missed something. Has there ever been a really...
Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Dec 28, 2002 12:51 pm
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Another idea I had, that I've discussed on the group before (many moons ago) was to take a reconstructed Gaulish and apply to it all of the changes from Latin...
Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Dec 28, 2002 12:58 pm
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... Have you looked at the files? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celticaconlang/files/ The paradigms that the list-creator, Alounis, has set up there are ...
... Not yet, but thank you very much for the link and the tip. I'm definately going to take a look. ... Not off the top of my head. I'm sure you're already...
Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Dec 28, 2002 4:34 pm
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... Don't think so in fact. Where is that? ... Among my papers I just discovered an old photocopy of Martin Löpelmann's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der...
... How easy is it to find a list of such changes, and how controversial are such lists? I'd like to develop a conlang with (as far as possible) the syntax of...
... Who publishes it, and is it in print? This is definately going to be hunted down and added to my collection! For a fairly good lexicon of Proto-Celtic, try...