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2414 Boris Shapiro
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Apr 1, 2000
4:52 pm
Aiya! For those who have received the LotR dates' Calendar, I apologize for the following typos: instead of "in year 1290 T.A.: The birth of Bilbo" read (or...
2415 jsbennett@... Send Email Apr 1, 2000
4:52 pm
... aiya, The word for "an owl" is given as _hô_ in the QL from the root _HO-_ meaning "shout,scream". namárië Scott Bennett...
2416 Andreas Johansson
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Apr 1, 2000
4:53 pm
To muddify things just a bit further, we may assume that CT was aware that his father's _k_'s sometimes looked rather more like _h_'s (a very reasonable...
2417 Jerome S. Colburn
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Apr 1, 2000
6:15 pm
... CJRT was not the only one to commit that misreading of JRRT's h. Long ago was I puzzled by the Ballantine paperback edition of RotK, App. E, where it says...
2418 Robert Brady
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Apr 1, 2000
6:15 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oxford, England - Seventy years after its discovery in a library in Oxford by Professor Tolkien, the Red Book of Westmarch has been...
2419 Ales Bican
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Apr 2, 2000
4:47 pm
... **There is no Quenya equivalent for it in a published text. But in my Linde Roccalassen I used _perino_ (masc. from _perina_, fem. _perine_) based on...
2420 Raymond Brown
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Apr 2, 2000
4:47 pm
... [....] ... It appears I did - sorry :=( ... We seem to be in complete agreement. ... I agree - it is quite irrelevant. I completely misunderstood your...
2421 David Kiltz
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Apr 2, 2000
4:47 pm
am 30.03.2000 18:51 Uhr schrieb Ryszard Derdzinski unter ... _Peryance_ sounds good. (Or _peryanco_?). _Peratan_ I don't know, they weren't Men really, were...
2422 Cyr
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Apr 3, 2000
11:27 pm
To whom it may concern, 3 April, 2000 Re: The Indo-European Database online A new scientific project was launched today on the Web. Ten leading websites...
2423 Boris Shapiro
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Apr 3, 2000
11:27 pm
Aiya! I'm terrified to announce my next error ;-) Due to the absence of February 29 in 1900 Yestare had been shifted one day forward, on March 30 (and with it...
2424 Dorothea Salo
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Apr 3, 2000
11:34 pm
The egroups.com website was down all weekend. Apologies to those who needed web access. The site is back up now, after a pretty hefty redesign. I did get...
2425 CHRIS1224@... Send Email Apr 4, 2000
2:35 am
Greetings, I haven't been able to read all of the elfling postings of late so I don't know whether this has been discussed, but there is an audio download on...
2426 Matt Beaney
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Apr 4, 2000
11:21 pm
Aiya! Elen síla lúmenna cuivenyo! Its been a while since last I posted but I've been busy.. New AI Degree to study for etc.. n-e-way.. Some people were...
2427 Greg Dyke
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Apr 4, 2000
11:21 pm
... And I (Greg), am English-French-German trilingual ;-) Greg ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at...
2428 Andreas Johansson
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Apr 4, 2000
11:22 pm
... Of course, that clashes with the root HO "from" in QaE. Homophones are anything but abscent from Quenya, but do we have a later root with a similar meaning...
2429 Marc MacArthur
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Apr 4, 2000
11:22 pm
Can you send me the like to that sound bite. please and thank you. ... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at...
2430 BP Jonsson
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Apr 4, 2000
11:22 pm
... Eruva. /BP B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@... <mailto:melroch@...>melroch@... ...
2431 david kiltz
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Apr 6, 2000
12:03 am
... The spell means sth. like: "Fire against xy". Perhaps not exactly the thing to say when invoking water ! It shd be: "Niin dan i xy" or similar. Of course...
2432 BP Jonsson
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Apr 6, 2000
12:03 am
... All the howl-words in The Etymologies refer to (were)wolves, IIRC, but perhaps _hô_ in the QL can be emended into !UHU (or !U3U in Etymologies-style...
2433 Mary Ellen Curtin
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Apr 6, 2000
12:03 am
... please and thank you. Go to the official movie page: www.lordoftherings.net and click on "Live on Set." Mary Ellen Doctor Science, MA ...
2434 M. Carver
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Apr 6, 2000
12:04 am
Yes I looked all over the site and couldn't find it. I second the request for the link to the sound bites. Eruanno aka Matþaius...
2435 LAICOLAS
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Apr 6, 2000
12:04 am
Hi! I heard two tehories about present tense. The first on is that one only form is used for both an action taking place now (i'm writing) and for an 'habit'...
2436 david kiltz
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Apr 6, 2000
12:04 am
... Von: David Kiltz <kiltzd@...> Datum: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 18:30:17 +0200 An: <elfling@egroups.com> Betreff: Re: [elfling] Re: Ave Maria in Q & S...
2437 Jay Lawson
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Apr 6, 2000
1:56 am
Hi all! I have recently done some thinking about participles, as I have had confusion about what they are exactly. I may actually be talking about past...
2438 CHRIS1224@... Send Email Apr 6, 2000
1:56 am
In a message dated 4/5/00 5:05:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mcarver@... ... for the link to the sound bites. Here it is: ...
2439 M. Carver
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Apr 7, 2000
1:01 pm
... It must have changed. :( It's only a little interview of Mr. Jackson Eruanno...
2440 Rich Alderson
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Apr 7, 2000
1:02 pm
A participle is a non-finite verb form (that is, is not inflected for person) which may be used in several ways. In English and (most) other Indo-European ...
2441 Matthias Bauerfeind
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Apr 7, 2000
1:03 pm
... Hmm... indeed really poetic. I don't know if you know, but this poetic word is already used in German: a special owl is called "Uhu". Matt...
2442 david kiltz
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Apr 7, 2000
1:04 pm
... I like the idea. Etym. has a word for "pigeon" *kukuuwa which yields Q. _ku_ or _kua_ and S. _cugu_. So perhaps in mature Q. _hô_ shd be _**hua_ and the ...
2443 david kiltz
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Apr 7, 2000
1:04 pm
... It seems as though -na, -ta and -ya were productive suffixes (both denominal and deverbal). Perhaps derivations in -a were also possible. Of course verbal...
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