The best book currently available is Andrew Sihler, _New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin_ (ISBN: 0195083458), followed closely by Oswald Szemere'nyi, ...
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Nataly Vasilyeva
red_foxy@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
Hello all! Could anyone help me in finding at least some information concerning the following subjects: 1) royal crests and heraldy in Middle-Earth; 2)...
1413
Kloczko Edward
ejk@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
... In Linguistics? LOL! I would like very much to see that... euhh "solid" and accepted by "every Linguist" definition of what is a "dialect". ;-) ...
1414
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
11=Ten plus/and one.
Or maybe 1, second set..
I fully expect that since Tolkien was into charts, there is some format that can
be used like that. I know in...
1415
Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
Anyone maintaining a terms site for Quenya terms? I know we all do all this work
on conjecturing how Quenya/Sindarian/Silvan(Avari) and like was...
1416
Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
... **_I_ is an indeclinable relative pronoun (and of course it's also an article "the") meaning _the one who_ or _those who_. E.g. in CO we can find: _i Eru i...
1417
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 2, 1999 2:21 am
... Well, the genitive ending is misplaced (_ataro iluuve_ means "father's everything" or "everything of father"; you mean _atar iluuveo_), and I think _naa_...
1418
David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 2, 1999 4:43 pm
Vicentini Emanuele wrote: (I don't know if 'nu' requires a specific case... Ardalambion doesn't say it) I think there is a difference in usage according to the...
1419
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 3, 1999 3:22 am
... Well, some refer to rather specific things peculiar to Elvish/Quenya. Eg _ómataina_ don't refer to any "stretched" use of vowels, it refers to the adding...
1420
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 3, 1999 3:22 am
... I must have been VERY tired when I wrote this! Not only did I shift to swedish for a couple of words, I also misspelt it! Well, "Indoeuropeiska språk" is...
1421
Lisa Star
amlug2@...
Oct 3, 1999 3:22 am
... **Have you reserved your copy of the soon-to-be -released DVD "uTuulie nu yantallo!" <creepy sound effects> **Lisa, who really needs to get some rest. ...
1422
hunterx11@...
Oct 3, 1999 11:02 pm
I understand that va is a temporary possesive in Quenya, but could it be used as an article to relate a noun to another? In Spanish, for example,...
1423
Herwig Reiter
Herwig.Reiter@...
Oct 3, 1999 11:02 pm
Hi Friends... I'm looking on some help on writing in Tengwar First there are two different kind of "R" (I will write them with "y" and "n"; you know them for...
1424
Dim Globe
orgof@...
Oct 5, 1999 12:48 am
hiya! I guess the information is mainly for Slav elflings. Do you know Andrzey Sapkowsky's "Wiedmak"? ("Âåäüìàê", èçä-âî "ÀÑÒ")The language, Aen...
1425
Dim Globe
orgof@...
Oct 5, 1999 12:48 am
Suilie, lambengolmor! Suilie, istar Fauskanger! Finally I got thru' the HTML problems and site-building sophisticated stuff. There's a Russian article based on...
1426
Vicentini Emanuele
vicentin@...
Oct 5, 1999 12:48 am
Hi dear friends, Thanks for your answers (and for being so kindly to skip my spelling and grammatical errors in both English and Quenya :-) ). I'll think about...
1427
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 5, 1999 12:48 am
... Writings of Arda" or I am completely wrong here (as usual ;P)? _Ardaparma Erucolindova_, I should rather say. (Quenya loves compounds, so use _Ardaparma_...
1428
hunterx11@...
Oct 5, 1999 12:54 am
herwig reiter <herwig.reite-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling/?start=1423 ... and ... Just a wild guess, but are you...
1429
hunterx11@...
Oct 5, 1999 1:55 am
"helge k. fauskanger" <helge.fauskange-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling/?start=1427 ... compounds, so ... the word ......
1430
orgof@...
Oct 5, 1999 11:43 pm
Suilie! I'm still too curious about the forms of "niye", "to be". We have naa/ (pl) naar - for both present times nee/neer - for the past simple eane/eaner -...
1431
Gernot Katzer
Gernot.Katzer@...
Oct 5, 1999 11:43 pm
... Maybe look at http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9026179/Tolkien/Tengwar/Index.html If you can read German, try also my own Tengwar page at ...
1432
orgof@...
Oct 5, 1999 11:44 pm
Suilie! ...oops...it's me again....there's been quite a talk 'bout the prepositions. I thought for a while and gave birth to such a child - uu - without...
1433
orgof@...
Oct 5, 1999 11:44 pm
Suilie again! Quite a nutty idea I have. Can we create some kind of online library for the researches and studies on Tolkien, for the texts on Arda languages,...
1434
Herwig Reiter
Herwig.Reiter@...
Oct 5, 1999 11:44 pm
... Nope I ment ore and romen. well there is arda, that is used in sindarin mode for "rh". I don't know any quenya examlpes for this combination.Well... then ...
1435
Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
... That would be hr in Quenya, written with halla (tall stem without bow) + roomen. ... In Sindarin ("Mode of Beleriand") roomen is used for r in all...
1436
Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
... Niye is not recorded in our published corpus. ... That is correct. ... These two froms are not attested in any published Tolkien text. Quenya was not a...
1437
Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
... Well it seems that we have the same literary taste! ;-) I'm actually writing such an encyclopaedia in French. The first volume has been published in 1995...
1438
Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
... In my answer _Nominative_ means the Nom./Accu. case. In Book Quenya or Classical Quenya Accu. was the case probabaly most used with most of the pre and...
1439
Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
Tolkien explained hwo to use the -va inflexion in order to say 'X's [wrote/made] "Title" Noldo-quentasta Ingoldova = Ingoldo's History of the Noldor. But...
1440
Edward Kloczko
106065.2071@...
Oct 7, 1999 1:05 am
... mode ... At its name implies the tengwa "arda" was used in Quenya written by the High-Elves for "rd". It should be stressed that the tengwar are _not_ an...
