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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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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&#39;...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
2430 BP Jonsson
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Apr 4, 2000
11:22 pm
... Eruva. /BP B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@... <mailto:melroch@...>melroch@... ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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