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30253 hirifeo Send Email Aug 24, 2004
2:30 am
Someone came up with the neologism _Hísiëa_ for "Misty", as in a name. the _-iëa_ combination strikes me as incorrect, but only in that it's a cumbersome...
30254 hirifeo Send Email Aug 24, 2004
2:31 am
... possesive, but there are certain constructions with a similar meaning ... avoiding ambiguity? ... make up phrases with an absolutely clear meaning ... I...
30255 Tony
ripplespic Send Email
Aug 24, 2004
2:34 am
just wanted to add another possibility to the heap. if anyone else has suggested it before, please forgive me. _athravad_ seems to be logical. i merely took...
30256 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Aug 25, 2004
2:44 pm
For all of you who have been waiting for the 2nd part of the English edition of my Quenya course 'Quetin in lambë eldaiva' - since I seem to be unable to get...
30257 DiAnn Casserly
aurelia_162000 Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
8:16 am
thank you so much you don't know how much this has helped me Thorsten Renk <trenk@...> wrote: For all of you who have been waiting for the 2nd part of...
30258 Nikke De Young
nikki_deyoung Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
4:46 pm
... how do you translate 'dom' into quenya? 'Dom' from freedom for example. I know free = mirima, but I'd like to know how to translate 'freedom&#39;! You don't...
30259 Michael Keegan
mkeegan86 Send Email
Aug 26, 2004
4:47 pm
... From: "Hirifëo" ... I believe there is a translation in Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator....
30260 Jack
thestoneargo... Send Email
Aug 28, 2004
6:18 am
Mae Govannen all! Just wanted to quickly introduce myself. Name's Jack. At first, I probably won't be posting much, till I get into the swing of things. Well,...
30261 galadhorn Send Email Aug 28, 2004
10:38 pm
Aiya, ilyë nildor Elflingello! Welcome again to my website Gwaith-i- Phethdain http://www.elvish.org/gwaith. There is an update from August 26, 2004: New...
30262 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Aug 29, 2004
4:03 pm
With the appearance of VT46 with Part Deux of the Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies, let us briefly review parts of the new data. Eventually, I intend...
30263 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Aug 29, 2004
11:07 pm
... The obvious answer is to not attach -ea but just -a. The -ea ending seems to be formed when two a's clash (for example: laura + -a = lauraa>laurea), and ...
30264 Navaer Lalaith
elvenswordsmith Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
3:42 am
... have ... I thought that the "thran" part of Thranduil was closer to thand- shield in Noldorin. He was protecting his lands, they were fighting the evil...
30265 fredon_le_hobbit
fredon_le_ho... Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
3:43 am
Hello! I'm trying to translate "King peaceful" (Roi pacifique, in french) into Sindarin. The word "king" is "aran" and the word for "peace" is "sîdh". But I...
30266 hirifeo Send Email Aug 30, 2004
3:43 am
I've been trying to help someone come up with a Nandorin name for "Swan-maiden&quot;, and in investigating the changes in the language, I opted for the _c_ > _p_...
30267 Nikke De Young
nikki_deyoung Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
3:44 am
... Well hi Jack! I hope you have fun! Welcome to the group. My name is Nikki. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of...
30268 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
10:19 am
Greetings to the list, I would like to ask your expert opinion, whether the active participle should be lenited in Sindarin. For the perfective form we have...
30269 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
1:05 pm
Helge, I would like to comment on some of your comments - especially regarding the verb system. First, past tenses in the Sindarin corpus do not exactly...
30270 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
9:57 pm
Tervehdys kaikille! ... Maybe *_lîf_ (< *lîbe)? Cf. NIB (and DAB etc.)? (Gnomish had _lib_ but in Sindarin this type of final root consonant would hardly...
30271 laebeth@...
brethwen Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
9:57 pm
To my knowledge, there is no “peaceful” attested in Sindarin. Adjectives are related to nouns by the addition of –eb, -en or –ui. I have not seen...
30272 Nerdanel
nerdanel14 Send Email
Aug 30, 2004
9:58 pm
Greetings, Right now I am writing a story from the perspective of Finrod Felagund, and I would like to use two sentences of Quenya in this story. I have done...
30273 jpauptit Send Email Aug 30, 2004
9:59 pm
Dear Elflings, I would like to have this text tattood on my arm but I want to make sure this is correct: nín hín, nín ioannath, nín rhaw a agar laitano a...
30274 firstchoicesafety@...
lotr_osgiliath Send Email
Aug 31, 2004
12:15 am
From what little I can remember (without my text and websites in front of me) the order of 'my children, my sons' etc, should be reversed in sindarin ...
30275 calwen76 Send Email Aug 31, 2004
7:01 am
... Adjectives are related to nouns by the addition of –eb, -en or –ui. I have not seen definitive demonstration of which to use when, but from a...
30276 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Aug 31, 2004
7:53 am
... Kedves Elhath, I have considered *lîf, but I have two problems with it: - roots in -B, that have Q derivatives in -mbe/-mba seem to have S cognates in...
30277 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Aug 31, 2004
7:59 am
Hi, ... I think _nar_ is not necessary, see _Mana i coimas Eldaron?_ "What is the 'coimas&#39; of the Eldar?" in PM; also in CO, where _sina_ is attested, it is...
30278 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Aug 31, 2004
8:19 am
... Hi Lucy, if we consider the root, ID- ( Q _íre_ _írima_ N _idhren_ _idher_) seems to be the closest (and RED-, but we don't have adjectives derived from...
30279 calwen76 Send Email Aug 31, 2004
11:35 am
... Well, yeah, I haven't found any relevant example for comparison so I've tried to give my internal feeling, as I've indicated. And sorry for the slip I've...
30280 hirifeo Send Email Sep 1, 2004
5:21 am
Aiya Alisson, A couple of points. If you're using the Silmarillion as inspiration, I don't think Finrod would use the word _onnar_ in referring to Men. Not ...
30281 A.R. Veldhuis
nerdanel14 Send Email
Sep 1, 2004
5:23 am
Thank you so much for your help. Do you believe the second sentence is correct? Or do you have any suggestions for it? _Eä sérë ar nilmë imbë lielvar...
30282 Cyllwen
cyllwen1985 Send Email
Sep 1, 2004
5:23 am
Hello everyone, I'm trying to translate common English phrases and expressions into Elvish. I would like to have the Sindarin/Quenya translation(s) of 'Good ...
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