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30505 calwen76 Send Email Nov 1, 2004
12:14 pm
... in ... FIRST LOVE - there is an example of "first twilight": _minuial_ (LR, app. D), so you could follow this attested example -> *_Minuimeleth_ - which...
30506 calwen76 Send Email Nov 1, 2004
12:27 pm
... Well, maybe *_Minúveleth..._ :-/ Lucy...
30507 promenadeofthedeer
promenadeoft... Send Email
Nov 1, 2004
5:24 pm
I wanted to see if I could translate "Mother of Exiles" (yes, I just reread "The New Colossus" for the first time since high school) into Sindarin. Would it...
30508 Cyllwen
cyllwen1985 Send Email
Nov 1, 2004
5:28 pm
[...] I came up with the following text ... 2004_ Thanks for your answer, Bellenion :-). Though, I have a few comments... ... I like Meleth and Vinui as one...
30509 priyanka p
priyanka_pai Send Email
Nov 1, 2004
5:31 pm
Hello all. This is my very first attempt to translate so I am afraid my grammar may not be up to the mark. I would really appreciate if someone could tell me...
30510 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Nov 1, 2004
11:24 pm
... is this valid? Seems like a somewhat awkward form. It is commonly assumed that adverbs can be derived from adjectives by means of the ending _-ve_, though...
30511 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
1:36 am
Mae govannen! After (finally) finding the time to read through Parma Eldalamberon 11, I found myself looking at the mystery of a language which was pretty ...
30512 Roman aka Elvellon
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Nov 2, 2004
3:36 am
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 06:01:49 -0800 (PST), priyanka p ... Firstly, it should be used with genitive. Secondly, don't forget that the dots in _esse_ should be left...
30513 Eugenio M. Vigo
imaglang Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
3:37 am
Hi, ... wordlist. It is unattested, of course. It said that `_na,n_ (and nan?) may also mean *"I am" (ná, na- + the pronominal ending -n "I")'. ... it looked...
30514 Roman aka Elvellon
elvellon@... Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
3:38 am
... You were given many possible versions. Minui:l is just too weird :). ... I'd rather go for _cu'_, because it's present in such famous bow-words as ...
30515 Aaron Shaw
maethorgalad Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
6:17 am
... Thorsten, Looks like a very interesting article. I'd love to discuss it more with you once I get some free time to read through it carefully. Would you...
30516 calwen76 Send Email Nov 2, 2004
7:17 am
... just ... into ... The article could be omitted, BMO. In VT45, pg.27, the form _egle(d)hio_ is not corrected, so I suppose the form _egledhron_ from the...
30517 calwen76 Send Email Nov 2, 2004
7:26 am
... of ... Either David Salo cannot say this is correct. ... Though Roman has already answered (that it's wierd), the other truth is that the cluster _uí/uî_...
30518 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
8:44 am
... This is maybe not strictly true, if we look at _Arwen, vanimalda_, translated as "Arwen, your beauty", with the possessive suffix -lda attached to an...
30519 lambendil Send Email Nov 2, 2004
11:02 am
... It seems to me more robable that _vanima_ is here considered as a noun rather than an adjective (as the rendering "your beauty" suggests). There are many...
30520 lambendil Send Email Nov 2, 2004
11:38 am
... That's what is told in the Etymologies (s.v. 3AR-). But apart from that, we don't know exactly what kind of construction it implies. In the present case,...
30521 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Nov 2, 2004
11:58 am
... My feeling is, that _minuial_ could be rather analysed as min- (see MINI-) + uial (i.e. _ui-_ as "both" from YÚ- and _-al_ from _gal_ "light"). I have a...
30522 calwen76 Send Email Nov 2, 2004
12:46 pm
... Yes, this is my idea as well - I was trying to avoid the vowel cluster _nm_ > _nv_ (since I was not sure about the looks ... it simply looked awkward to my...
30523 elfiness Send Email Nov 2, 2004
9:25 pm
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30524 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
9:32 am
... I haven't seen -nv- inside a compound, but maybe the attested name Eryn Vorn might indicate that this combination is not frowned upon. I do not know if the...
30525 calwen76 Send Email Nov 3, 2004
10:02 am
... I was also thinking of a vowel that would be inserted between N and M, maybe U > *_Minuveleth_/*_Minumeleth_... Your idea of -nw- would BMO yiled over some...
30526 Roman aka Elvellon
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Nov 3, 2004
12:29 pm
... _nv_ isn't a valid cluster, _min-meleth_ would become _mimeleth_ (like _boron-mir_ > _Boromir_). But that is, to my _la'matya&#39;ve_, rather ugly. So I'd go...
30527 Michael Keegan
mkeegan86 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:29 pm
... Was the phrase not changed by Tolkien to _Arwen vanimelda, namárië!_ ? It seems more likely that it means "Arwen Elven fair" in his later conception. ...
30528 diamondgeezer_ira
diamondgeeze... Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:29 pm
Hi, I've decided on the name, _Valant_ and was wondering if it's the correct (Sindarin) combination for 'divine gift'. (_bal_ + _ant_)? And for the noun...
30529 Cyllwen
cyllwen1985 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:31 pm
I will put everything in one mail now, as it's all getting pretty confusing... ... words as ... Yes, yes... that's what I thought. But this dictionary of mine ...
30530 Cyllwen
cyllwen1985 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:33 pm
Suilad, Can someone please tell me how to make an adjective of _tűr_ (victory)? I'm looking for the word 'victorious&#39;, to describe a person (as part of a...
30531 Michael Keegan
mkeegan86 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:33 pm
... From: "Atwe" <percival64@...> ... Would not _min-_ and _lamad_ produce _millamad_*? ... Would not _min-_ and _meleth_ produce _Mimeleth_* <<...
30532 calwen76 Send Email Nov 3, 2004
12:54 pm
... Well, yes, into SOME extent. You should preserve the nature of the language, I think. And of course to somehow follow the rules - here, it is clear, that...
30533 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Nov 3, 2004
12:59 pm
... _minlamad_ is attested as such, in various places (UT 146, WJ 311). ... Yes, but if you look at _mindon_ in Etym, it comes from *mini-taun, so the original...
30534 calwen76 Send Email Nov 3, 2004
1:48 pm
... There is _gellui_ "triumphant&quot; in the E:359. Lucy...
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