Aiya quettar sindarino (sorry I have not yet given myself to sindarin) I came across http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9026179/Tolkien/Tengwar/Index.html a few weeks...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 4, 1999 2:25 am
... No, this verb is attested only in the sentence you quote - and as you suspect, is not possible to determine whether it is a "strong" verb _dreg-_ or a...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 5, 1999 12:29 am
... I thought of it as being from the root MEN "go" (Tolkien repeatedly changed his mind about the meaning of this root), with a derivative verb-stem menta...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 5, 1999 12:29 am
... You use be for "in" -- I think it means "like, as, in the manner of, according to" and that it is related to Quenya _ve_. For "in" in a spatial sense I'd...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Sep 5, 1999 12:29 am
... **Hm, since *_tyarma_ would mean "something what is done, caused", so it could be "deed". But in original entry Tolkien did not use *_carma_, but simply...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Sep 5, 1999 1:18 am
For what it's worth, the first draft of the Elfling FAQ is on the web, at http://www.terracom.net/~dorothea/elfaq.html . I'm rather ashamed of it, to tell the...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Sep 5, 1999 3:06 am
... Bit of a big subject. However, as someone who's been on both the learning and the teaching end... I have found that the more someone knows *about*...
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Candon Clannach
candon@...
Sep 5, 1999 7:50 pm
... I think you're right. Thank you for suggesting that. I guess I tend to think of _ne(d)_ as a motion preposition "into." ... Yes, "Mortal maid" flows off...
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Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Sep 6, 1999 12:33 pm
September 5th is the anniversary of the beginning of the Elfling list. I would like to thank all the people who keep it going, especially Dorothea Salo. I...
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C.J. Miller
mkinjubhy@...
Sep 6, 1999 12:33 pm
Thanks, everyone, i always wondered how some can read/write a language but not speak it. Avennor Nij (Tyien for goodbye) C.J. Miller ... === " I can see you...
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Mark
nocturnile@...
Sep 6, 1999 12:33 pm
... Yes. I would have to agree. I am only 15 years old, but i'm as into Tolkien as anyone could be. I love languages as well, so naturally i took it upon...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Sep 6, 1999 12:33 pm
... Hm, I see. There must be something wrong with Tolkien's phonological equation: Q hanu, ON anu is followed by N anw, but if you compare under MAN (Q manu,...
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gfinsen@...
Sep 6, 1999 12:33 pm
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
candon@...
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
bpj@...
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
g_dyke@...
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
and_yo@...
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
dsalo@...
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 ...
