Kys t'ou, Eamon! ... This is my own personal experience: knowing Scottish Gaelic, I understand a lot more Manx right away than I do Irish Gaelic, upon hearing...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:31 pm
560
Arrrgh! I must crush anyone who says Manx is extinct!! :-) ... While I can make out a lot of written Irish with a dictionary, I personally find the spoken...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:47 pm
561
... Did I say that? Guess I must have, hmmm! :-) -- Thomas...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 3, 2000 6:50 pm
562
Yep, I finally started sketching out a few ideas the other day. I like it, so I plan to keep working on it and see how it comes out. There's no conworld or...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 3, 2000 7:09 pm
563
... one little known orthography of Cornish I have seen uses the Y". Someone who lives in Riverside, Cardiff, Wales, invented it apparently, from what I was ...
damon.m.lord
damon.m.lord@...
Jul 3, 2000 8:27 pm
564
Thomas Leigh ... I'm interested! This is how I started on Arvorec, I was fiddling about with Cornish. ... Yep, check. Did that with Arvorec, because it looks...
Dan Jones
yl-ruil@...
Jul 3, 2000 9:29 pm
565
Just a note to say that I agree with everything Thomas has said re SG and Manx. My guess would be that they're more similar to one another than is Donegal...
Howlsedhes Services
carrot@...
Jul 4, 2000 11:13 am
566
... I've often wondered about it myself, it can stand in for W. <y> circumflex. ... In your /som/ the /s/ is from the "long form" affix /ez-/ W. /yd-/ as in ...
Howlsedhes Services
carrot@...
Jul 4, 2000 11:47 am
567
... French. It's rare but not unheard-of, particularly in names. Unfortunately I can't think of an example offhand. ... Also Latin "sum". -- John Cowan...
John Cowan
cowan@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:25 pm
568
... [snip] Looks interesting! One idea which jumped out at me, which might be of ... For some reason, this particular pair of auxiliaries seems to me to ...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Jul 4, 2000 5:48 pm
569
... Also Greek "esmi" and so on, trouble is the /s/ is lost in Celtic. OI still has the copula inflected for person so : <am> <at> [ad] <is> (relative form...
Howlsedhes Services
carrot@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:10 am
570
... Fastyr mie, kys t'ou? :) Almost the extent of my conversational Manx. :) Thank you for response and interest, Thomas! Thank you for the info on the...
R. Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Jul 6, 2000 9:52 pm
571
Thomas, Thanks for sharing your project with us! It's good to hear what ideas others are having. I like the look of it; it looks very unique and yet very...
R. Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Jul 6, 2000 10:11 pm
572
R. Eamon Graham wrote ... It *is* possible to find pronunciation guides for Manx on the web. All of my research for Inter-Celtic so far has been on the web. ...
The Keenans
makeenan@...
Jul 7, 2000 2:16 am
573
Moghrey mie! (T'eh morrey ayns shoh, ansherbee) ... Well, that's a good start! :-) ... Oh, she dty vea. Anytime I see the word "Manx", I can't resist jumping...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 7, 2000 3:47 pm
574
... I expect that it was at one time, only the knowledge of traditional Gaelic spelling was later lost on Man. By the time people started writing it again, the...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 7, 2000 3:53 pm
575
Moghrey mie reesht! ... You're very welcome. I just wish I had more to share than I do at the moment! ... Thank you! That was sort of the idea, apart from the...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 7, 2000 4:27 pm
576
The following is a text I found written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in a recent biography I read last year. The original was written in Latin while he was...
andrew
hobbit@...
Jul 14, 2000 9:38 am
577
Grettings list, In considering the numbers for my celticonlang, I'm confronted with a number of issues and questions. My main question concerns the vigintal...
R. Eamon Graham
robertg@...
Jul 14, 2000 7:30 pm
578
... Yes, as far as I've heard. ... I've heard that the vigesimal might not be original - wasn't PIE decimal? ... Yes. Though Brithenig is decimal, Kernu is...
Padraic Brown
pbrown@...
Jul 14, 2000 8:02 pm
579
... Here's a reference from my 4th edition of "Gaelic Self-Taught", printed in 1935: # The "vigintal" system of numeration, as we may term the present Gaelic ...
Geoff Eddy
geoff@...
Jul 14, 2000 9:35 pm
580
Kys t'ou jiu, Eamon! ... "Oh yes, because the ancient Celts counted using their toes as well as their fingers, you see!" :-) ... The vigesimal systen is the...
Thomas Leigh
callanish@...
Jul 18, 2000 2:00 pm
581
Hello to all members of this list! I am Basilius (AKA Vasiliy Chernov), and I'd like to introduce myself to the list after a short lurking period. Those of you...
Vasiliy Chernov
bc_@...
Jul 29, 2000 12:34 pm
582
Gwaleth! Welcome to the list! You know me from CONLANG, so introductions are unneccessary. Ask any questions you want, this list knows its stuff. If you want...
Dan Jones
yl-ruil@...
Jul 29, 2000 1:13 pm
583
... Seems to have moved again: http://website.lineone.net/~kelteag/ Basilius...
Vasiliy Chernov
bc_@...
Jul 29, 2000 2:00 pm
584
... Also Afrikaans -- used to, anyway. BTW I have made a custom font for writing Sindarin where × and ÷ are replaced by Y and y with circumflex (which...
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jul 31, 2000 1:36 pm
585
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Claude Heyman
bavrag@...
Jul 31, 2000 5:26 pm
586
... Well, I know for a fact that (1) older Dutch used it in_lieu or alternately with "ij" (E.g. all over the place in Blaeuw's Atlas, which I own in facsimile...
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Aug 1, 2000 8:58 am
587
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Claude Heyman
bavrag@...
Aug 1, 2000 5:17 pm
588
I'm after the Celtic equivalent(s) of Latin _lucus_, Greek _alsos_, Gothic _weih_, German _Hain_, all meaning `holy grove`. I believe to remember Gaulish...
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