Aiya, Thanks to all your comments! I'll correct **_arwa carnë macil_ by *_arwa carnë macildo_ (I forgot the genitive) and replace *_apa cenë i seldo_ by...
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beahelluin@...
May 27, 2004 4:41 am
hello lambendili i read really interesting ideas about the topic and agree with a lot of them. As Thorsten renk said, most of us are both "user" and "student"....
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elhath *
elenyona
May 26, 2004 7:21 pm
... That may be a good choice. I wonder which form Quenya would use in correspondence to the Finnish use of the 2nd participle passive (owned and in partitive,...
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Atwe
percival64
May 26, 2004 6:23 pm
... In the Shibboleth of Feanor EWE has a different meaning: person, self. Of course homonyms exist. Shine on, ===== Thomas Ferencz "We're a hundred and forty...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
May 26, 2004 5:40 pm
... Here's the entry from PE12:36 : _EWE_ ? _eule_ lamb _eulitse_ It appears that _eulitse_ is merely a diminutive variant of _eule_, for _-(i)tse_ is in all...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil
May 26, 2004 4:08 pm
Aiya! ... JC> But not really. Say, rather, that a plausible Sindarin *cognate* JC> of the (assumed) Quenya word was constructed, using phonological JC> rules...
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tinviel_webmistress
tinviel_webm...
May 26, 2004 4:05 pm
Hello:) I'm new to elfling and Sindarin/ Quenya... and I wondered if someone could answer a question I've been thinking about for a while... Some time ago, I...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
May 26, 2004 2:09 pm
... Infinitive here looks strange to me. After seeing would probably be more like gerund _cenië_, hence _apa i seldo cenië_ 'after the seeing of the boy',...
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320082509922-0001@...
May 26, 2004 12:30 pm
... Hi, well, the only thing I can think of is to describe it then. Maybe something like _Man avorn/barad na charu i 'űr_ 'How fast/doomed to wound the heart'...
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Atwe
percival64
May 26, 2004 8:29 am
... Well, Etymologies give us: AWA- : Q ava (although it also yields au-) RAW- : Q rá, pl. rávi SLIW-: Q líve TAWAR-: Q tavar So we have a few attested...
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Atwe
percival64
May 26, 2004 7:20 am
... Greetings, this is the entry in Etym: STAG- press, compress, *stanga: Q sanga crowd, throng, press; N thang compulsion, duress, need, oppression; cf....
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Atwe
percival64
May 26, 2004 7:13 am
... Aiya, one quick remark: _arwa_ takes a genitive, so it would be _arwa carne macilo_ (macildo?). Shine on, ===== Thomas Ferencz "We're a hundred and forty...
... But not really. Say, rather, that a plausible Sindarin *cognate* of the (assumed) Quenya word was constructed, using phonological rules inferred through...
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Eugenio M. Vigo
imaglang
May 26, 2004 4:37 am
Aiya! I'm back here and I'd like to show you another composition of my own. Please, send me your comments and/or suggestions to it. I Seldo Formello (Quenya) ...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
May 25, 2004 11:51 pm
... My mistake: it should be _anech_ (for you). I guess I was keying too fast and wasn't paying attention. As for the rest.... there's a point where one can...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
May 25, 2004 11:45 pm
... I don't have the Etymology handy but it seems to me that STAG- (or at least the Sindarin verb _thag-_ also had the connotation of "breaking or pressing of...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
May 25, 2004 11:39 pm
... Thanks. Since I don't have a copy of PE12 and am unlikely to get one since it's out of print (or at least no longer available for sale), I wasn't aware of...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
May 25, 2004 11:33 pm
... And yet, in the Aia María, Tolkien uses the genitive form: Eruo ontaril (Mother of God) and the genitive is used not just to connote origin but is ...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
May 25, 2004 11:07 pm
... So now I'm wondering about the verb _caw-_ "to bow" attested as _cawin_ "I bow". Helge Fauskanger thinks this form would not be considered possible in...
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machhezan
May 25, 2004 10:02 pm
... Seemingly, there's a disagreement whether a theory/hypothesis that isn't supported by every single attested item is acceptable for the 'student/scholar'...
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Atwe
percival64
May 25, 2004 11:22 am
Greetings, though I generally wanted to stay away this time for this umpteenth debate over the division of elflingers into purists/pragmatics/students/users, I...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
May 25, 2004 9:42 am
... It's actually _máma_ 'sheep' (WJ:395) with a long _a_. ... Rather *_mámince_ and *_mámalle_ respectively (cf. _nandelle_ 'little harp' < _nande_ 'harp'...
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Atwe
percival64
May 25, 2004 8:50 am
... Okay, BERÉK- is out, then. But I must say I am not comfortable with STAG-, either, it seems more like a moral oppression, breaking, whereas I wanted to...
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Atwe
percival64
May 25, 2004 8:39 am
... I assume you refer to the King's Letter. To this I would like to add, that in KL _aníra_ and _suilannad_ have the same subject _e_, which makes...
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Michael Keegan
mkeegan86
May 25, 2004 8:21 am
... camp. This is excellent to hear. You must understand how your continuing to mention only two distinct sides in this debate is frustrating to those who feel...
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Michael Keegan
mkeegan86
May 25, 2004 8:18 am
... Whence came the suffixes _-incë_* and _-llë_*? Why not use an attested diminutive like _pitya_? It's use in the compound name Pityafinwë (PoME) ...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
May 25, 2004 8:15 am
... No thoughts on "Lamb", but IMHO "of God" should be translated by means of possessive, rather than genitive (it is more "adjectival" and does not connotate...
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Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad
May 25, 2004 4:44 am
... thoughts, etc. on that. anim attested in the Gilraen's Linnod. "for myself" hypothetically. ... The question of "dative" can be a complex issue. English...
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alesbican@...
ales_bican
May 24, 2004 9:03 pm
... **It is actually not the only one attested form of the subjunctive mood in Quenya. There is another: _i erenekkoitanie_ "that he might awake them" which ...
