Hi guys I have an inquiry from a friend of mine who I told about this list. He has the following question(s): BTW by Quenya, he actually means Sindarin or Old...
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Candon Clannach
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Sep 6, 1999 3:37 pm
... David Crystal: _A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics_ published by Blackwell. It's fairly useful (even for linguists ;-). Also, Webster's New World...
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Candon Clannach
candon@...
Sep 6, 1999 3:37 pm
... It's tempting to see _ho, hon, hono_ as something like 'he, him, his.' But if we use the -n forms as accusatives (him etc.) we run into trouble with the...
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BP Jonsson
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Sep 6, 1999 10:07 pm
... Shouldn't N. _anw_ correspond to S. _anu_? ... I think they are plurals. The Q. nominal inflection shows that there was a plural morpheme consisting of a...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 6, 1999 10:08 pm
... David replied: There _are_ a few a-stems from CVC roots, they're just relatively rare. I'm not sure what you refer to as a mixed conjugation; I would have...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Sep 7, 1999 2:22 am
... Well, I've heard a number of people take this tack for language creation, and it's always made me a little squeamish. I think it's best to come up with a...
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lindril@...
Sep 7, 1999 11:39 pm
In the name _Fëanáro_, does the _-o_ indicate a genitive case, or is it a masculine ending? Are noun inflections such as the genitive allowed in compounds...
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lindril@...
Sep 7, 1999 11:39 pm
A quick follow-up to my last question... I meant to ask, can inflections be used in the *nominative* forms of compounds... a word such as _Ardalambion_ (to use...
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G. Dyke
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Sep 9, 1999 12:00 am
... It is the genetive. His Mother? apparently deteted his fiery passion from an early stage and thus named him "spirit of flame" -> Fea-naare-o -> Feanaaro ...
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mirth@...
Sep 9, 1999 12:01 am
I know this group is geared toward more scholarly questions.. but I stumbled upon it while trying to find a translation of a particular word on the web for a...
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Valistyar
cheyman@...
Sep 9, 1999 12:01 am
In the name _Fëanáro_, does the _-o_ indicate a genitive case, or is it a masculine ending? Are noun inflections such as the genitive allowed in compounds...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Sep 9, 1999 11:13 pm
... It DO mark genitive (eg in _Alatariello_ "Galadriel's"), though I agree it's probably not genitive in _Fëanáro_. ... It's more like a masculine one, look...
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Andreas Johansson
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Sep 9, 1999 11:13 pm
... Well, bow is _quinga_ in Quenya, so a longbow may be _andaquinga_ or maybe contracted _anquinga_. A Sindarin form could be _ambeng_ (I think; bow is ...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Sep 9, 1999 11:13 pm
... word ... genitive ... think... does ... oh... ... referring ... possessive ... of it. ... Not so. The compound _ailinaare_ already means "pool of...
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lindril@...
Sep 9, 1999 11:13 pm
... Hmm. That's not the impression I got from the Namárië (Namaarie) poem: _"yuldar...lissë-miruvóreva"_, draughts of sweet mead--Though I *have* heard...
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David Salo
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Sep 9, 1999 11:31 pm
... I think it has to be treated grammatically as a masculine ending, although I suppose it contains a pun on the phrase fea naaro "spirit of fire". The...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 9, 1999 11:31 pm
Some word requests... ... Elvish. Quenya _Andacú_ or_Andaquinga_, Sindarin _Angú_ or _Ambeng_ (? - _an(d)_ + _peng_). ... along the lines of a great...
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G. Dyke
g_dyke@...
Sep 10, 1999 10:41 pm
Aiya ilye, Talking of feanaaro -BTW isn't there a quote in PM about this name (I'll check when I get back home)- reminded me of a few questions I've been ...
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gfinsen@...
Sep 10, 1999 10:41 pm
Thanks Helge. My offsider expresses his thanks as well Regards Ancalimon "Helge K. Fauskanger" <helge.fauskanger@...> on 09/10/99 10:03:15 AM Please...
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G. Dyke
g_dyke@...
Sep 10, 1999 10:41 pm
... but I was wrong _ailinaare_ is the correct form ... that's right BTW ... yes and no, you might have studied french if you have, the prepostition "de" ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Sep 11, 1999 2:02 pm
... The ending _-ion_ can mean "-son" (eg _Lómion_ "Twilight-son"), so I think Anarion should translate as "Sunson". The difference between _-ndur_ and ...
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Ales Bican
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Sep 12, 1999 11:30 pm
... **_Elendur_ could be a variant of _Elendil_, but the former would mean lit. "star-servant" and the latter "star-friend", but since Edain were confused ...
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Liam Widvey
lwidvey@...
Sep 13, 1999 11:25 pm
Greetings, I'm new to the list and I need alittle help. What are some of the Transition words and the like in Quenya? Such as: Are,But,and,the,can,is,also...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 13, 1999 11:25 pm
Andreas Johannson ... The Egyptians used as one of their most common royal titles s' r' (Sa're') meaning "son of the Sun"; this was also (in appearance anyway)...
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Dim Globe
orgof@...
Sep 13, 1999 11:25 pm
Alasse'are, i lambengolmor! Faced some difficulties with the verb forms....Quite a nut to crack they were... 1.How to form the perfect of the prefixed verbs...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Sep 13, 1999 11:25 pm
... There are some place-names in Old Norse and the other dialects of Old Scandinavian that are inseparably attached to a preceding preposition governing the...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 15, 1999 7:16 pm
In Sindarin, initial G is often lenited to zero: _galadh_ "tree", but _i 'aladh_ "the tree". The ' indicating the position where _g_ would have occurred if the...
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lindril@...
Sep 15, 1999 7:16 pm
I'd like to know if there's any way to make a comparative form of an adjective, as in "fairer, more fair". The only thing I could come up with was to use...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 15, 1999 7:16 pm
... the Transition words and the like in Quenya? Such as: Are,But,and,the,can,is,also are: _nar_ but: _nan_ and: _ar_ the: _i_ can (verb) - you may try _tur-_,...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
Sep 15, 1999 7:16 pm
... Something similar to the _at Skörum_ case is found in German (especially westphalian) family names. Such as: Meier ( a sort of farmer) to Krax Meier...
