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13051 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 2, 2002
11:31 pm
... Same: _imbe_ is dual and plural: between 2, among more that 2 is both the same. If you mean: the sweetest flower among flowers, or a the fairest woman ...
13052 Raven
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Apr 2, 2002
11:32 pm
How would you translate the sentence "An island on a sea of flowers" into Quenya? TIA! Raven ... "We lie best when we lie to ourselves - S.K. | contact me:...
13053 heath_rezabek Send Email Apr 2, 2002
11:32 pm
... Splendid! My second question would be, what then does -ion imply other than 'a-thing-that-is-about-prior-thing&#39;, and why can't I find this anywhere?...
13054 duranna144 Send Email Apr 2, 2002
11:33 pm
Okay, I'm trying translations for the first time... and I'm trusting someone can check what I've done and help me figure some stuff out if I'm not quite all...
13055 Kyla Dina
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Apr 2, 2002
11:33 pm
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13056 eluchil404 Send Email Apr 2, 2002
11:37 pm
... find this ... Where have you been looking? This is an example of the genitive case. On the web see the discussions on Ardalambion ...
13057 Kai MacTane
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Apr 2, 2002
11:40 pm
... Have you tried Helge Fauskanger&#39;s Quenya course, available at: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/qcourse.htm ? In particular, for this question, you'll want...
13058 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 2, 2002
11:41 pm
... If you mean 'get lost!" like 'out of my way", there is an expression in Quenya (I don't know Sindarin): _heca!_ 'be gone, stand aside!' (attested War of...
13059 Lukas Novak
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Apr 2, 2002
11:43 pm
... What about "arantyalme&quot; - meant to mean "king-game&quot;? Lukas...
13060 Lukas Novak
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Apr 2, 2002
11:44 pm
... I would like to join to this wish. Many times I was grateful for your extremly knowledgeable contribution and I would greatly miss it, if you leave. Coul...
13061 Kai MacTane
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Apr 2, 2002
11:47 pm
... Yup, you sure could do that. Indeed, the Quenya Lapseparma suggests _Melime_ as a Quenya translation of the name Amanda ("lovable";, "fit to be loved"). ......
13062 Kai MacTane
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Apr 2, 2002
11:49 pm
... I'm not a loremaster, but I'm pretty sure the stress would go on the antepenultimate syllable: _tel-ER-i-on_. (And all the vowels would remain short.) ...
13063 Gildor Inglorion
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Apr 2, 2002
11:52 pm
teithant Thomas Ferencz ... "spirit, being"; this looks like the active participle * eala is more like "being, *existence" ... used for "presence";; or maybe...
13064 Kai MacTane
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Apr 2, 2002
11:53 pm
... Oh, good point. I assumed Daniele meant it as in "Some of the Teleri got lost on the way to Beleriand." (I.e., "they had insufficient maps and direction...
13065 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 2, 2002
11:59 pm
... 1) _tol mi ear lilótea_ 'an island (tol) mi (in) ear (sea) lilótea (having many flowers) 2a) _tol mi ear lóteva_ 'an island on a sea made of flowers_ ...
13066 Terry A. Dock
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Apr 3, 2002
12:06 am
... (having ... Shouldn't "flowers" be a plural in Quenya too? Thus _lótiva_ and not _lóteva_. What do you think?...
13067 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 3, 2002
1:14 am
... I'm very confused about this rule too. Does it always work? No: _vanimaalion_ is not really an exception, it is based on the form vanima pl.partitve...
13068 Bballchic4eva23@... Send Email Apr 3, 2002
1:40 am
In a message dated 4/2/2002 3:41:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... ive downloaded this but each little lesson is soo long i havent had any time to read any of...
13069 heath_rezabek Send Email Apr 3, 2002
1:40 am
... Heh. I'm very much a beginner, so although I have been scanning the etymologies and have begun the courses on Ardalambion, I have not yet reached Lesson...
13070 Bballchic4eva23@... Send Email Apr 3, 2002
1:40 am
Lately ive been sort of daydreaming and writting poems during my free time and i was wondering if any could help me with the translation (from english to...
13071 Quendil22@... Send Email Apr 3, 2002
1:40 am
<< I cannot find the word Along or Journey anywhere in my Quenya dictionary. ... im a total newbie at quenya or any other language other than english or ...
13072 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 3, 2002
1:57 am
Lirnen lassion, laurië lassion ar laurië lassi tuianer: súrio lirnen, súrë utúlië ar súyanes olwassen. ... My latest version of Galadriel's Lament in...
13073 Alex Grigny de Castro
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Apr 3, 2002
2:40 am
... You are probably right. I was thinking more in terms of substance/material than of individual flowers. And, to be honest, I don't know if this possessive...
13074 Kai MacTane
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Apr 3, 2002
2:57 am
Hey, Folks-- I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to make a reflexive construct in Quenya, such as "He really shot himself in the foot", or "She calls ...
13075 Robert B Wilson
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Apr 3, 2002
3:18 am
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:55:41 +0300 "Petri Tikka" <kari.j.tikka@...> ... I would use _vor-_, because there is an adjective _vórima_ (LT1:250). Since we...
13076 D. Daniel Andriës
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Apr 3, 2002
4:36 am
... Nope. Quenya is a highly inflected, grammatically complex conlang. The lessons, with explanations and illustrative examples, are necessarily involved....
13077 D. Daniel Andriës
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Apr 3, 2002
5:11 am
... Mae govannen! ... There are several wordlists and 'dictionaries&#39; online. Some are good ... some are NOT, so be careful! I particularly like the Quettaparma...
13078 sshiskom Send Email Apr 3, 2002
7:19 am
... Arantyalie? I like that one! "King-game&quot; (or "General-game") is what Xiangqi, Shogi, and Janggi means. (Chinese Chess, Japanese Chess, and Korean Chess...
13079 Kai MacTane
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Apr 3, 2002
8:07 am
... According to the Merrian-Webster online dictionary (http://www.m-w.com), it comes from the ME _ches_ < M Fr. _esches_ acc. pl. of _eschec_. This entry ...
13080 Terry A. Dock
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Apr 3, 2002
9:03 am
Teithant Alex Grigny de Castro ... Then if _lilootea_ is attested, we should probably use this one rather than any other unattested form. As far as I'm...
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