... As in German. "Marc(h)o" comes from the Germanic word for horse, *marh-. The pairing of Marco and Cavallo recalls the legendary founders of Anglo-Saxon...
1777
Dim Globe
orgof@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:26 am
Suilie! Does anybody know where can i find the Arda language maps, I mean, map of the territories where they spoke the certain tongues, and their geolinguistic...
1778
OLA Dration
envinywen@...
Dec 2, 1999 12:26 am
Aiya! I'm just want to ask somebody to check my translation of a one poem into quenya. Please, help me! 8) ilulva (our world) ve loote tyelperiono (like the...
1779
Ales Bican
bican@...
Dec 2, 1999 11:33 pm
... **We gladly help. ... **I think _Ilu_ isn't the best word for "world". Well, it's glossed as "world" in the fragments in a tale of The Lost Road, but in...
1780
Alex
thehobbit@...
Dec 4, 1999 12:40 am
Is there a hobbits' language?...
1781
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 4, 1999 12:40 am
... OK.... ... The ending *_-lva_, or more likely *_-lwa_, is DUAL "our". _Ilulva_ or _Ilulwa_ is OK if you want to say "thy and my world"; otherwise I would...
1782
abrigon
abrigon@...
Dec 4, 1999 12:41 am
I think had their own rings, after all they are the nine mortal lords
doomed to die..
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1783
Quessondo (Stonefeath...
stonefeather@...
Dec 4, 1999 12:41 am
... Actually, I have only seen _ya_ in the declined form _yassen_ (in Galadriel's Lament), which I have always *assumed* was the form taken by the commonly...
1784
Robert Brady
robert@...
Dec 4, 1999 4:17 am
... Hobbits spoke the language of the humans they lived near. In the latter half of the Third Age, this was the a dialect of the Common Speech, Westron. Sadly,...
1785
Eomer Eadig
Sfernandezr@...
Dec 4, 1999 4:17 am
Well hi to all the list, my name is Sergio Fernández Ribnikov and i'm from Argentina. I belong to the ATA (Argentinian Tolkien Asociation). I play the guitar...
1786
Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Dec 4, 1999 8:06 pm
... Might the root KWAR- be relevant to a verb for "to grasp"? +------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Jerome S. (Jeannette E....
1787
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:14 am
... Not if there was original contact between tar- (not tara-) and -tir; cf. !Morchant, pl. Morchaint "shadows" from *morcanta "dark shape", not +Morgant pl....
1788
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... There are four Sindarin words which have a length mark on the last syllable: gwanuun, annu^n, amru^n, udu^n. All end in -un, and the last three have a...
1789
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... J.R.R. Tolkien did write some additional notes about Westron to accompany The Lord of the Rings, but for some reason they were never published. They are...
1790
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... Probably the origin is from Old English mearh "horse", Germanic *marha-. So an English ch is very improbable, a Germanic one more likely with a plain old c...
1791
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... I just mean that the normal development of the sound sequence *lambenjaa would result (>lambenia > lambeina > lembeina > lembein > lemmein > lemmain) in...
1792
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... I think this is consistent, and shows the preservation of a non-lenited m after a nasal: thus morn "black" + megil = mormmegil > mormegil. Likewise...
1793
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... My best guess at ann-thennath is "long-shorts", perhaps referring to an alteration of length or stress in the metre: and, ann- "long", thent, thenn-...
1794
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... Or "rochon" (also in Sindarin). In Quenya, we don't know. Roccon(do)? Rotyar? ... If from Germanic *Harjawig- I suppose army-battle or army-warrior,...
1795
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... "Hauberk" comes from a Germanic *halsaberg- "neck protection", I dare say applying originally to some sort of coif and later applied to the whole mail...
1796
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
... I think mel- is correct, the only question being whether it is mela- or meli-; on balance the evidence is perhaps for mela-. ... For Sindarin perhaps Melon...
1797
David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
[Catching up on some old messages] ... I'd guess, as a monosyllable, gi^l, and siila for sila; For omentie I'd reconstruct !govaded [<*wobatita] or !govennad ...
1798
OLA Dration
envinywen@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
Aiya! ... Oh. Thank you! Of course there must be Ilulma.. ... OK ... I see. It seems to be a big progress since the time when Antony Appleyard wrote his...
1799
OLA Dration
envinywen@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:15 am
Aiya! ... glossed as ... But 'universe39; is sinonym to Ea, isn't it? ... In what time we ought to use "i" ? ... mean ... Yes, i mean gthe last flower of...
1800
Ales Bican
bican@...
Dec 6, 1999 11:16 am
... **_Ya_ alone is attested in socalled Arctic sentence, the piece of "old" Q(u)enya that Tolkien used in the Father Christmas Letters for his children....
1801
John Cowan
jcowan@...
Dec 7, 1999 7:00 pm
... If your etymology is sound, as it would seem to be prima facie, then surely by "long" and "short" JRRT meant "long" and "short", not "stressed" and ...
1802
EvanDar
evandar@...
Dec 7, 1999 7:00 pm
Well if I know anything of it, there should be info on Rohirric and old English as well at Ardalambion (move.to/ardalambion). hope it's of any help /EvanDar ...
1803
BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Dec 7, 1999 7:00 pm
Ainon teke harwesse Ardalambion: ... *** I've been thinking: "entulesse" wd imply 'coming *again*, a second time' -- e.g. Nuumenatani coming to ME just as the...
1804
AngrodtheElf@...
Dec 7, 1999 7:00 pm
Are there any rules for creating names in Elvish? ~Angrod~...
1805
abrigon
abrigon@...
Dec 7, 1999 7:00 pm
It seems that Tengwar could be in the "real"world be based on Cirth or
like alphabet, but also some influences from Arabic or Indian (East
India) Sanskrit and...