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17349 Tchitrec@...
tchitrec Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:55 am
... from ? Is it a lapsus calami ? ... Derdzinski&#39;s 'Gobeth e Lam Edellen' and the 'Taste of Elvish' Sindarin wordlist, _talagand_ is the word for 'harper&#39;. ...
17350 Tchitrec@...
tchitrec Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:55 am
About the following : sing. hiina and pl. Eruhiini sing. Valarauco and pl. Valaraucar ... _raucor_. Do we have attested examples that deny this? ... ...
17351 elhath *
sp12@... Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
9:41 am
... _Ned_ reminds me of NÉD, ÉNED. And now I noticed that under NÉD is indeed given N nedh- as prefix = mid-. So maybe _ned Echuir_ means just that, 'in the...
17352 petristikka Send Email Sep 1, 2002
10:06 am
I peryandor tirir Telcontar. Séyanes sa nés nóla enwina nolmesse, ve nés i tiessen verce ardaron. 'Man Artanáro né?' maquente Cali; mal Telcontar úme...
17353 reldias Send Email Sep 1, 2002
1:23 pm
... for "to ... right now, ... but ... I found one in Quenya btw: _tara_ "cross". Usable?...
17354 sshiskom Send Email Sep 1, 2002
1:23 pm
Hello, I am new to the list. I am from Korea and I am 17 years old high-school boy. I am very interested in invented languages of Tolkien, especially in Elvish...
17355 laura card
velouriaelfq... Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
1:24 pm
hi does anyone know if Amin Mella Lle means "I Love You" in elvish im not to sure of this could someone clear this up for me? -laura card ... ...
17356 david_robert_morton
david_robert... Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
1:24 pm
Thanks for your help, I think I've got it in a better state now: Uunootime yeeni yaa uncountable years ago Iire i noori mirime ner when the lands were free I...
17357 vivecalindahl Send Email Sep 1, 2002
1:24 pm
... which makes ... The sentence was "I gave it to him". Using "you" wouldn't be that helpful since there is only one 2 sing pronoun for all forms: dative,...
17358 vivecalindahl Send Email Sep 1, 2002
1:24 pm
... anymore" ... could be ok ... got it", ... can't figure ... I am no ... with my ... weird, can I ... such and are ... pronouns??? ... him", "I told ... it...
17359 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
3:05 pm
teithant laura card ... i think it means so, but in rpg Elvish, not in Tolkien's Elvish... in Tolkien's Elvish "i love you" is tye-meelanye or meelin le ...
17360 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
3:09 pm
now, can anyone help me with the meaning of Argonath? I was thinking of "royal stones" (ar+gond+ath) but this would produce *Aronnath ...
17361 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
3:16 pm
oh yes... is ph considered long f? should Orophin and Araphant be Oroffin and Araffant, thus stressed on the penultimate syllable? if yes, is there also a case...
17362 DDanielA@...
uialdil Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
3:57 pm
... 'Royal Stones' or 'King-Stones&#39; is my guess as well. Sometimes Tolkien ignored his own rules of lenition ... Remember _Cuu Beleg_ and _Nan Tathren_ where...
17363 DDanielA@...
uialdil Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
4:11 pm
... Yes, and yes. According to App. E, 'ff' was represented by 'ph'. If a single 'f' had been intended, it would have spelt 'f'. Why didn't Tolkien just write...
17364 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
6:07 pm
oooops! I am so sorry. It is not **hyelet, but _henet_ (plural _henetsi_), and it is Boris Shapiro's proposition in PPQ. Sorry again. Thomas ... ...
17365 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
6:49 pm
teithannen ... a teithant DDanielA@... ... i don't remember the details but i've heard mallorn is a special case (explained in "Beacon hills of gondor" i...
17366 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
6:53 pm
teithant DDanielA@... ... ...like the Gondorians when picking Sindarin names ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
17367 vivecalindahl Send Email Sep 1, 2002
7:10 pm
Is there a verb for "kill" in Q.? Or do you have to make use of something like "cause death"? Viveca...
17368 rynnalise Send Email Sep 1, 2002
7:11 pm
... thanks. I promise that's the closest thing to a quickie translation i'll ever ask for :) .. you'd think something like that would be useful.....
17369 Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:12 pm
... hmm... I disagree. try checking the archives... anyway, I explain both. "you" has, again, 4 forms, _tu, ti, te, contigo_. but yes, dative, acc. and reflex....
17370 Ben Hamill
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Sep 1, 2002
7:12 pm
On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 03:22 PM, Emilio Pisanty Alatorre ... I think no. ... There *are* rules... I just don't know them. I looked in Helge's Course...
17371 Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:13 pm
aiya ilquen does anybody know if there's any word for "too! as in "it's too long"? perhaps using the superlative _an-_... but I need something that indicates ...
17372 Thomas Ferencz
percival64 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:14 pm
Aiya, ... The pronominal endings are missing. Vantanen(ye) and súyanen(ye) Bye, Thomas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
17373 Robert B Wilson
han_solo_55 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
7:21 pm
"vivecalindahl" <vivecalindahl@...> korte: <snip a bunch of stuff> ... there is a rule in Spanish that you can't have _le_ or _les_ before _lo_, _los_,...
17374 elhath *
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Sep 1, 2002
7:22 pm
... Didier Willis' dictionary gives an explanation of _arn(a)gon-ath_, based on the adjective *arn apparently; it is said to be from the Letters, p. 427....
17375 elhath *
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Sep 1, 2002
7:32 pm
... There is an old word, _mak-_ 'slay', from The Book of Lost Tales 1, p. 259; otherwise you'd think this would be derived from the stem NDAK-, cf. -ndacil...
17376 elhath *
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Sep 1, 2002
7:40 pm
Emilio Pisanty Alatorre tence ... The stem/word _han_ 'add to, increase, enhance (/ beyond?)' from VT43:14 sounds like the best option IMHO... Otherwise this...
17377 Thomas Ferencz
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Sep 1, 2002
7:43 pm
Aia, apparently there is liime excessively (VT#26:16) I do not own VT26, so I do not know the context or source. Bye, Thomas ... ...
17378 Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987 Send Email
Sep 1, 2002
8:11 pm
... I found out a bit more... _te_ is: 1)accusative "you", _TE caché_ 2)one of 2 dative "you"s, _TE lo di_ 3)reflexive "you", _báñaTE_ dative "you"s are: 1)...
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