Kopecky J. wrote ... Taniquetil comes from TA-NIKW-TIL (all three in etym.), literally "high-snow-point", now TIL yields _tilde_ point, therefore, for...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:55 am
... OK, but this is confusing the Internet and the Web, which is one of the applications of the Internet. For a spider's web we have, of course, Q. ungwe, and...
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Josu Gomez
josugp@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:55 am
... I tried to translate "web-page"; from my first language, Spanish... and I don't know wether it's possible (in English) to see the relation between "page"...
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Hills, Charlie
HILLSC@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
Has anyone compiled a list of cognates (and/or false cognates) among various Tolkien languages? Particularly S & Q, but others perhaps. Charlie Hills...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... Well, Quenya have phonlogical rule that simplifies final consonant clusters. So if you have a word that ends in say _-l_ you can't "see" if the l will ...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... **_Taniquetildesse would be right, for in Etym under TIL we find "old" (in sense of Tolkien's real life-time) gen. sg. _-tilden_ (this would be rather the...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... Well, most prepostitions seem to be followed by the nominative. The first example that comes to mind right now is _mi oro-mardi_ "in lofty halls" where...
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Klaas Jan Sijsling
KlJan.Sijsling@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... day, ... _Mahtuvar_ must be plural (-r-ending), and _númeheruvi_ is plural nominative, so the Lords of the West are the subject. Since the writer of this...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
... Bartholomeus is from Aramaic Bar- (son of) Tolomai (Ptolemaios, which in turn is Greek and means something like "warlike"). How about Ohtaarion? ...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:56 am
**I'd like to note that this all needn't be true if the page nr. 407 of WJ is right, since it gives us _yomenie_ "meeting, gathering" (or more people than two)...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:57 am
... this is right) ** _Alcarin_, then (King Atanatar II of Gondor took this title). Or _Calimo(n)_, from _calima_ "bright". ... ** From the Aramaic for "Son of...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:23 am
... That's one of Tolkien's abortive names for Dol Guldur, along with Dol Duughol and Dol Duughul. All were intended to mean "Hill of Dark Sorcery", and to...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
maggot@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:23 am
eGroups: elfling digestMae govannen! Galadhorn or Richard again. I want to announce I look for Sindarin, Quenya, etc compositions (they can be published...
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Sabine Kiltz
skiltz@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:23 am
... Thank you for the note. However on page 367 of WJ sub _WO_ the form is also _omentie_. And a few lines after that _omentielvo_. So _yomenie_ is -I think-...
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Patrick Norton
jediknightpatrick5@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:24 am
Helge, how do i find Etymologies, Secret Vice, Fiiriel's Song, King's Letter, Gnomish Lexicon, Qenya Lexicon what books are they in? ... ===== hey want to make...
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Daniel Laenker
dmlaenker@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:24 am
... This is great. On multiple levels. For the longest time I've been trying to see how one can create technical terms in German and also Khuzdul and the Black...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:24 am
... too! Yes, this phonetics course looks quite nice. Let me, too, share an interesting link I found: http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/finn_que.htm This is a...
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Serguei Chubukov
schubukov@...
Mar 3, 2000 12:24 am
... Yes, that's why I wanted to say, not sure it's right, though (I'm using a norwegian keyboard that has been painted, so I've to guess the keys, forgive the...
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david kiltz
dkiltz@...
Mar 4, 2000 1:47 am
... Altough in WJ p. 416 f. it says: "..., but _Taniquetil_ is an adaption (of an Valrin original) , though one that has probably greatly altered the original...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 4, 2000 4:22 pm
... Yes. The form _nuumeheruvi_ "Lords-of-West" (or literally *"West-lords") is found in SD:246. _Heruvi_ would seem to be formed from the singular _heru_ with...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 4, 2000 4:23 pm
... Letter, Gnomish Lexicon, Qenya Lexicon ... Etymologies: The Lost Road pp. 347-400. The Secret Vice: The Monsters and the Critics pp. 198-223. Fiiriel's...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 4, 2000 4:23 pm
... Well, we have _heruion_ for "of (the) lords" in SD, so my guess is _herui_ for nom pl. Andreas ______________________________________________________...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Mar 4, 2000 4:23 pm
JRRT would probably even have been able to give a good reason why it should be "hill of sorcery-dark" and not "hill of dark-sorcery". Had the compound been...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Mar 5, 2000 3:47 am
... I suspect there is a condition on -r plurals that seeks to avoid the awkward sequence rVr; so ainu-r, quendu-r, but *herur > herui, and so perhaps also...
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Nicholas Taylor
nicholas.taylor@...
Mar 5, 2000 11:14 pm
... What's quenya for amber? Should use the first letter of that in place of e. Nicholas Taylor ... For every action, there is an equal and opposite government...
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Patrick Norton
jediknightpatrick5@...
Mar 5, 2000 11:16 pm
i am new to quenya i want to learn it like a real language, but i get depressed when i read all these elfing messages. can you help me learn it? ... ...
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david kiltz
dkiltz@...
Mar 7, 2000 12:02 am
am 05.03.2000 18:56 Uhr schrieb Nicholas Taylor unter ... I wd also favour "amber" - "elektron";. I don't know whether tengwa "letter" is a very lucky choice....
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Thomas Fredriksen
thomas.fredriksen@...
Mar 7, 2000 12:02 am
* I support Thee strongly Patrick. But maybe this is the wrong forum for us. I hope not. patrick norton <jediknightpatrick-@...> wrote: original...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 7, 2000 12:02 am
... I don't think any Eldarin word for 'amber' is known. I came up with the idea to work from the other end, using "tinwe" 'spark' to mean 'electron', from...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 7, 2000 10:40 pm
... awkward sequence rVr; so ainu-r, quendu-r, but *herur > herui, and so perhaps also *ontaror > ontari (and presumably quentaror > quentari, tambaror >...
