... Maybe, but no one knows for sure. _hácala_ (MC:213) may be a participial construction from *_hac-_, but it may as well come from *_haca-_ or *_háca_. ......
19115
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:46 pm
From: "Kai MacTane" <kmactane@...> ... It's also my guess: I think the second -tin- is the steam TIN, while the first is an augment; but I'm not sure...
19114
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:45 pm
From: "Kai MacTane" <kmactane@...> ... Valar and Maiar are both "subset" of the Ainur, so are of the same "kind" (Ainur in Middle-Earth), buth the...
19113
Kirsten Eivor Bekkhus
Kirsten.E.Bekkhus@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:45 pm
Kai McTane and Mornon: Have you considered thinking of the context here?? It has been presented before, here it comes again: "Into the ray of the sun, march...
19112
Hans
gentlebeldin
Nov 1, 2002 10:16 am
... I share your feeling: _-ya_ was usually lost in other derivations, both as a verbal suffix and as an adjectival one. Examples: _milya-_ (to long for) vs....
19111
Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Nov 1, 2002 8:21 am
New update of Gwaith-i-Phethdain www.elvish.org/gwaith from November 1, 2002 - All Saints' Day: Boris Shapiro presents the most actual version of his Parma...
19110
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Nov 1, 2002 2:36 am
... My guess (and it is *only* a guess!) would be _tintínala_, simply because that way the emphasis is on the long syllable. Even _tíntinala_ would be ...
19109
elimloth
Nov 1, 2002 1:18 am
... French and ... something ... interrogative is ... Which reminds me of this interesting phrase: żComo que como como? ˇComo como como! Indicative indeed. ...
19108
Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Nov 1, 2002 1:13 am
... if it helps, Spanish (and to my (rather poor) understanding also French and Portuguese) would also render it like that: _lo sabes?_ literally something ...
19107
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Nov 1, 2002 12:03 am
... Yeah, in English (and many other languages) the word "god" serves the dual purposes of: "noun describing a deity" and "Proper name of a particular deity"....
19106
Emilio Pisanty Alatorre
emilio_1987
Nov 1, 2002 12:01 am
... where would the 3ş person come in? I'd say it is _man sii istanyes_, for something like "now who do I know", the -s being some sort of agreement with...
19105
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:01 am
From: "Beregond. Anders Stenström" <beregond@...> ... This is because the phrases "names of an elf" is seen as "elven (plural) names", as _I arani...
19104
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:00 am
From: "Mornon" <lucaemauro@...> ... In some languages, sorry (I know one for sure, and maybe another; I'll ask for). Mornon....
19103
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:00 am
From: "Míriel" <kyoki_sama@...> ... If I'm right, they should be _-ro_ and *_-re_, but I'm not sure they are valid in mature Quenya. Mornon...
19102
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:00 am
From: "Petri Tikka" <kari.j.tikka@...> ... Could it be also *_willa_ (or *_villa_)? ... Maybe *_cancale-malinaiva_, for the plural form "of daffodils"? ...
19101
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:00 am
From: "Emilio Pisanty Alatorre" <pooka_grump@...> ... dulCE ... Also in Italian: people can say "come sorsi di dolce idromele", where "sweat mead" is...
19100
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Nov 1, 2002 12:00 am
From: "Hans" <gentlebeldin@...> ... Also in linguistic script(s)? I'm not sure about which of two interpretation is right, but, in linguistic,...
19099
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Oct 31, 2002 11:59 pm
I need the present participle of "sparkle", _tintina-_; the word come from TIN but I don't know which is the stem-vowel for lengthening it (if this is needed)....
19098
Thomas Ferencz
percival64
Oct 31, 2002 10:51 pm
... I did not want to imply that JRRT had modelled Yé! Utúvienyes! on basis of Hungarian, I simply wanted to show that this apparently might denote ...
19097
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Oct 31, 2002 10:46 pm
From: "Petri Tikka" <kari.j.tikka@...> ... Yes, in many languages there is this possibility, also if is more useful (and short) using a simple "yes"......
19096
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Oct 31, 2002 10:34 pm
... So it might be intended as "Holy cow! I've found it!" (when I totally wasn't expecting to)? (This would, of course, be assuming that JRRT was indeed...
19095
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Oct 31, 2002 10:30 pm
From: "Kai MacTane" <kmactane@...> ... who ... Nominative suffix, maybe? Or ?"deadjectival" (a neo coniage from Italian; in Italian, if I'm right,...
19094
Mornon
lucaemauro@...
Oct 31, 2002 10:29 pm
From: "Kai MacTane" <kmactane@...> ... Yes, also this, in addition to the other motivation. Anyway, I had misunderstood the meaning of that "god"... ...
19093
Thomas Ferencz
percival64
Oct 31, 2002 10:01 pm
... Adding some colour: the word _jé!_ (pronounced yé) is a common Hungarian exclamation word denoting surprise. Bye, TF ...
19092
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Oct 31, 2002 9:23 pm
... Okay, two that are in noticeable current use. ... That does have something to recommend it. As a counter-argument, though, I'd say, what about _Ela!_ or...
19091
Ales Bican
ales_bican
Oct 31, 2002 9:12 pm
... **However, he also wrote that tengwar had originally a palatal series (LotR, App. E). Furthermore, he wrote that _ty_ was "a very forward palatal stop...
19090
Petri Tikka
petristikka
Oct 31, 2002 8:29 pm
... Much more, I would think. ... _ The ... accepts it ... I don't think so. Someone has suggested (I don't remember who) that it might be related _yéta-_...
19089
Thomas Ferencz
percival64
Oct 31, 2002 7:52 pm
All I can think of suddenly is an "abstractive nominal (noun-forming?)" suffix? TF ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
19088
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Oct 31, 2002 7:44 pm
... I think he's asking, "What do you call the suffix used to derive nouns from adjectives, such that the noun has the meaning of 'the quality or essence of...
19087
Kai MacTane
kmactane
Oct 31, 2002 7:16 pm
... I wouldn't use _Eru_ for this. In this case, the god spoken of is "the Warmaster Kron", right? Not the "One God", Jesus' father, etc. The god of ...
