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... the ... masculine ... forms ... exists only ... That _is_ a problem. What do you think of this line of evolution? Initial Conditions [d] [t] [t_h] – Base...
habarakhe4
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Feb 1, 2006
5:10 pm
2005
Can someone point me to some introductory textbook or discussion of Old Irish? I have a copy of Thurneysen's "A Grammar of Old Irish," but it's not exactly an...
Ph.D.
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Apr 1, 2006
3:02 am
2006
... We used Lehmann's "An Introduction to O.Ir." ISBN 0-87352-288-5 It takes you through MacDatho's Pig (Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó), and there's some poems in...
Padraic Brown
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Apr 1, 2006
4:59 am
2007
... Yep, that's probably the nearest thing to a "popular introduction" to OI :-) ... See Thurn. (s)819 - For each preposition the preverbal usage is listed...
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mongvras
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Apr 3, 2006
11:42 pm
2008
Marconatrix wrote ... I appreciate the responses to my questions. I looked at this book on Amazon, but Andrew Lemmons has posted a review of it in which he...
Ph.D.
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Apr 4, 2006
4:23 am
2009
I wholeheartedly agree with Andrew - Lehmann's book is terrible! There are gaps in the vocab as well, incorrect genders, and other tiny bits that add up to...
Aidan Grey
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Apr 4, 2006
6:48 am
2010
... How funny! We find the same thing in Biblical Hebrew! A (bit simplified) example: shálach "he sent" > *shálach+ú = shál¤chú "they sent" >...
Isaac Penzev
yitzik_ua
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Apr 4, 2006
8:54 am
2011
... Well, to be honest, Lehmann is nòt a beginners book! It presumes that you know what things like nominative and genitive are and how to use paradigms. That...
Padraic Brown
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Apr 4, 2006
10:51 am
2012
... Also very, very much worth getting is Old-Irish Paradigms[1] by John Strachan. I can't recommend it highly enough. K. [1]...
Keith Gaughan
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Apr 4, 2006
3:04 pm
2013
... You're right! How did I miss seeing that? Must be because Hebrew goes from right to left :-) I always got confused between silent schwa and vocalic schwa....
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mongvras
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Apr 4, 2006
9:37 pm
2014
... Yes, a vèry good choice! It comes in two volumes: one with grammar stuff and one with texts and a glossary. As I recall! Padraic. ... manstapurncanar!...
Padraic Brown
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Apr 4, 2006
9:39 pm
2015
... Hmm. I never thought about the origin of the vocal schwa. But indeed it looks like a result of reduction, in contrast to the silent schwa that is, so to...
Isaac Penzev
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Apr 5, 2006
8:00 pm
2016
... Thank you, I'll make a note of that, it's very helpful. I suspect that if you compared your "she ate/her food" example with say, classical arabic, where...
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mongvras
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Apr 5, 2006
8:21 pm
2017
... "Copies of Bywnans Ke will be available ... from Gwynn ha Du, 4 the Arcade, Fore Street, Liskeard (tel 01579 347373) as well as from the Cornish Language...
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mongvras
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May 16, 2006
12:21 pm
2018
A brief report can be found at : http://www.howlsedhes.co.uk/bywnanske/ Some background material, links to web resources etc to be added over the next few...
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mongvras
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May 17, 2006
2:58 am
2019
My apologies if you've already read this elsewhere, but I can't very well *not* post this to Celticonlang! It might be of interest to certain persons to know...
Deiniol Jones
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Jun 18, 2006
12:46 am
2020
Hi! ... Nice! :-) Are you planning to ad some remarks about why the bits of grammar work as they work, e.g. because some Celtic language does it? I don't know...
Henrik Theiling
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Jun 20, 2006
12:11 pm
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... Tremendous, Dan! Due to all the IB discussions, I haven't really had the time yet to look at it, but now that I finally did, I'm really pleasantly...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jun 26, 2006
9:20 am
2022
... six year wait IMO. And the great thing is I can tinker with it and add in more detail "pý dhá an bow da gadh" (until the cows come home). ... That's a...
Deiniol Jones
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Jun 27, 2006
1:23 pm
2023
Hi! ... I did something similar, also using The Gimp, but I am not completely satisfied. Do you have some more hints of how to make the result look more...
Henrik Theiling
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Jun 27, 2006
3:22 pm
2024
... Wow! Henrik, that looks incredibly realistic already- far better than my efforts- I love the way you've captured that almost "translucent" look of...
Deiniol Jones
feuchard
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Jun 27, 2006
4:31 pm
2025
... What site? I missed that -- missed quite a lot as I've been working! ... I have a set of parchment background tiles that I got on the net. ...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jun 27, 2006
7:35 pm
2026
... Here we go: http://ib.frath.net/w/Lla_Dafern/Archive1#Font_Sampler ... Nice! That will definitely come in useful! Trugareth. ... If you have the...
Deiniol Jones
feuchard
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Jun 27, 2006
9:12 pm
2027
... It looked very convincing, pur dha, proper job! (That goes for the language as a whole, btw). As a Cornish speaker, Arvorec makes more sense to me than...
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mongvras
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Jun 27, 2006
10:33 pm
2028
... As promised: http://arvorec.net/arvorec/comparison.htm ... Thank you! ... Hah! When I get some soundfiles up we'll se how that goes! ... Hm. Well. As you...
Deiniol Jones
feuchard
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Jun 28, 2006
1:48 am
2029
... Hash: SHA1 ... Not possible currently, the reason being that IB-Irish isn't anywhere stable enough for me to translate anything into it. Suffice it to say ...
Keith Gaughan
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Jun 28, 2006
4:44 am
2030
Hi! ... You think so? Thanks! :-) I simple copied the letters from old documents I found on the web. I'll think about more stains. **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
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Jun 28, 2006
4:17 pm
2031
... Wow, that was fast! Thank you for that. Very informative, this page! Goes on to prove that despite a certain similarity to Welsh (in the eyes a Celtidiot...
Jan van Steenbergen
ijzeren_jan
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Jun 28, 2006
6:03 pm
2032
For anyone who's interested! -- Thomas ************************************* The Third Annual Pennseythun Gernewek Amerikanek (American Cornish Language...
Thomas Leigh
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Jun 30, 2006
5:23 pm
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... <snip> ... I made a google image search for tiles that are or are purported to be parchment or images that can be made into tiles and put them up for...
Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
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Jun 30, 2006
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