Lá polil (ya)lelya? Nanye veuyaro i Muina Náro? Inye arwa Náreo Anarwa? (... turda Nárinen Anarwa?) (Btw the Finnish translation has 'I am armed with/I...
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elhath *
sp12@...
Aug 31, 2002 8:44 am
... In the case of _hiini_ I would imagine the plural coming from a feminine/neutral form *_hiine_/_hiin_ (or other way of putting it, simply from the stem...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 31, 2002 8:19 am
why... sing. hiina and pl. Eruhiini? sing. Valarauco and pl. Valaraucar? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
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Thomas Ferencz
percival64
Aug 31, 2002 7:29 am
"window" is given as _hyelet_ (hyelets-) but now I perefr Ales Bican's reconstruction from S cenedril > cenirril bye, Thomas ... ...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Aug 31, 2002 6:35 am
Suilad! At http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm another linguistic news from the movie! Today I present Gil-galad's spear inscription found in "Official ...
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Kai MacTane
kmactane
Aug 31, 2002 5:53 am
... Close, but what you really want is the negative verb. And that's the verb that should get conjugated; the two verbs following ("can; to be able to" and "to...
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Kai MacTane
kmactane
Aug 31, 2002 5:35 am
... Like I said, it is perfectly valid to use the 1st edition 1 pl. pronoun system -- indeed, that's the style Helge's downloadable course teaches. (I had...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 31, 2002 3:49 am
... nope! 1)_no lo tengo nada mas_ is a poor analogy to "I don't have it anymore" "anymore" doesn't translate as "any+more"; (otherwise, "any more" could be ok ...
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reldias
Aug 31, 2002 3:46 am
I've been trying to translate the words Gandalf say to the Balrog on the bridge of Khazad-dűm (to Quenya), but with little success. Anyone feel fee to help me...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 31, 2002 3:43 am
... well... this shakes things a bit... but if it's the normal usage over here, I'll try to use it, or at least indicate I'm using something else. thanks a...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 31, 2002 3:41 am
... wait... I think MC mentions _san_ "then" in page 216...though I ask others to comment on it another two cents emilio_1987 ...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 31, 2002 3:41 am
... would it be acceptable to use "window" as an alternative to "mirror"? I can't seem to find a word, though... hope this doesn't add too much discussion... ...
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williamwelden
Aug 31, 2002 12:13 am
On Gwaith-i-Phethdain, commenting on a newly revealed Dwarvish spear ... In fact, I never said that _taraag_ was borrowed from Sindarin (which would have been...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 30, 2002 11:03 pm
what would the singulars of haradrim, forodwaith, lossoth, falathrim etc? from 2 examples of attested singular, aphadon-aphadrim and feredir-faradrim, it seems...
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DDanielA@...
uialdil
Aug 30, 2002 10:36 pm
... I still have some translator's ability left in me! ;) ... Yes. Bill Welden suggested that JRRT might have used 'nin' as being more intimate that 'min'. My...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 30, 2002 10:32 pm
... aiya I think your proposition of using "given" as "though" is somewhat more... useable. after all, it means something like "since it happens that", we ...
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Kai MacTane
kmactane
Aug 30, 2002 10:24 pm
... Funny... _Namárie_ sure looks like Quenya to me. So do lines like _Á laita te, laita te! Andave laituvalmet! ... Cormacolindor, a laita tárienna!_, from...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 30, 2002 10:22 pm
teithant DDanielA@... ... very practical :))) ... cool :)) ... at least i knew that but well.. i was used to consider it as reconstruced :)) what about...
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DDanielA@...
uialdil
Aug 30, 2002 10:17 pm
... Allow me to offer another suggestion. Based upon the attested examples of JRRT, _tolo i arnad lín / caro den i innas lin_ ("[May} thy kingdom come / {May}...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 30, 2002 10:08 pm
teithant Donna Mair ... sindarin.. for 213th time: Quenya was not spoken anywhere in 3rd Age of Middle-earth ... Sedhion and Breegon respectively? ...
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Donna Mair
lotr_osgiliath
Aug 30, 2002 9:46 pm
another question or two: is it quenya or sindarin that the lothlorien elves spoke? also, i am looking for a phrase in that type of elvish- 'peace, be quiet'...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Aug 30, 2002 9:32 pm
Suilad! Again new movie revelations on Gwaith-i-Phethdain! Today at http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie.htm you will find a Khuzdul inscription from the spear...
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Kai MacTane
kmactane
Aug 30, 2002 9:07 pm
... Okay, so this translation essentially says "Gil-Galad *is* an Elven-King", not that he *was* one? Just checking. --Kai MacTane ... "In another life I see...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Aug 30, 2002 9:04 pm
teithant Donna Mair ... yes, but you might use the poor attested plural in -in or -ath to distinguinsh singular and plural _niif_.. so _niivin/ath_ ... long...
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DDanielA@...
uialdil
Aug 30, 2002 9:03 pm
... You're right. We don't have an attested example of the past tense copula. If we assume that _na_ = 'to be', and if we assume that it is a regular verb,...
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Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Aug 30, 2002 8:35 pm
... aiya ilquen, aiya Erucolindo wait a minute... are WE in middle-earth? since we live in the same world as tolkien (with parts of it, eg. calendar, ruled by...
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vivecalindahl
Aug 30, 2002 7:41 pm
... same... ... be _te lo ... and _di_ is ... construction makes no ... That was exactly what I was getting at. I would think it's ok....
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gentlebeldin
Aug 30, 2002 7:17 pm
... [...] ... [...] ... JRRT translated the Lords Prayer, and line 2, "Hallowed be thy name" (= may be holy the name of thine) became _no aer i eneth liin_...
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elhath *
sp12@...
Aug 30, 2002 7:09 pm
I have nothing else to point out about this except, doesn't the acute accent mark indicate stress/a vowel shorter than that with the circumflex in Sindarin?...
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Donna Mair
lotr_osgiliath
Aug 30, 2002 6:48 pm
teithant Gildor, dm> 'may a star shine upon your face' GI>>no elen siila an niif liin thank you for the translation, i have another favor to ask: may the stars...
