teithant Donna Mair ... as i said, _caan_ means "commands"; ... Ryszard's :) ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
... I'd see _nanqueta_ as more like "recant" -- while the metaphor around speaking also seems somewhat Elvish to me, I also think they might note the ...
... Regardless of the sonnet, I'd argue that "repent" in English nearly always has the more spiritual connotations you describe. "Regret" is used for more ...
i like it, i like it. (Eru tortha vanadh nîn) now all i have to do is convert this to tengwar. thanks for your help danny. Eru galu donna ps one day i have to...
Donna, the closest I can find to 'command' is 'tortha-', so how about 'i-Chîr tortha vanadh nîn'? (The 'm' in 'manadh' would have to be lenited.) Or you...
teithant gildor, ... i have looked up the word 'caan' and found it is indeed as you say but the root or original verb is 'can' which means 'cry out, shout,...
Hi! Bill Welden suggested _nanqueta_ "to say back". We could use it in parallel with _nancar-_ maybe. The first for things wrongly said, the second for wrong...
That's typical of me: I regret things but don't put them right... Then I guess you're right and we could go with Edvin's _enquer-_ as "repent" and _enníra-_...
... A better prefix for 'turning around' is _nan-_ (V:375 s.v. NDAN-). The root _quer-_ is good, but personally I would use _quet-_ as in _váquet_ 'to say no,...
... (I am sad ... my answer.) ... The word "repent" has two meanigs: "to regret past actions or behavior" and "to regret past actions or behavior and decide to...
... [...] ... renders ... I think, at least in this sonnet, "repent" is used in a more spiritual way than "weep" or "mourn", it means "to regret past actions...
Hello again, Why not simply consider that "to repent" is "to be sad". Thus "I repent from my answer." : _Nányë lemba nangwesanyo._ (I am sad about my...
Hello, It occured to me that "to repent" has something to do with "to regret", so I looked up in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionnary (www.m-w.com) here is...
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... Hmm. Then again not so sure if Sindarin allowed s between vowels (inside word). Would it become something like *_anthon_ or (indeed) *_achon_ then? How did...
Tence Kai MacTane ... Just a _y_ as in English Yule as far as I know. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s...
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... I always thought repentance had a little tone of 'turning around'(spiritually) so I used _enquer-_, with _quer-_ derived from _nuquerna_ here suffixed with...
Aiya, well, I believe "to them" - dative - is attested as _tien_ in Tolkien's version of Átaremma - Pater Noster, analised by Helge on www.ardalambion.com. ...
teithant Lime1Jello@... ... www.zompist.com has a language constructionkit (it's link isfound also in Ardalambion) made by a guy who made a wordl with...
Aiya, it was published in an old number of the journal Parma Eldalamberon (issue 13 I believe), which is, sadly, out of print. I haven't encountered any...
teithant Donna Mair ... teithant means "wrote".. it's not a greeting :) ... what ending? the entry says this: "3 sg caan".. so _caan_ is the 3rd person...
Aiya, two thoughts: - "in pain" a locative can be used in such a case in Hungarian ("kínban", where "kín" is "torment, pain", "-ban" is a locative ending),...
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Teithant brethwen ... I rather think _men_ is objective (like _nin_) at the most; I would begin to think more of _le_ as the sole "special" form/word than,...
... The English adjective for "of or relating to Elves" is "Elvish" (or "Elven" in certain cases, but for languages, endings in -ish are preferred). To find...
... front (AN ... That really gets to the heart of my question. It does seem to be redundant (to to-thee). The attested related example I found is _ammen_...
Aiya I thought it would be ALLE because ALLEN would have the dative in front (AN = AL) and behind (-N). That's a redundance, I think. Following the same ...
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Hello, Let's say that i wanted to make up a language of my own, much like tolkien did. what are some things that i should remember to do in this long ...
Hey there, I'm late with this answer, I know. I just wanted to say that, as far as the English part of the poem goes, 'tis beautiful, I loved it. About the...
