Now that we have one, what can we do to recreate more of the lingo, as
well as since Sindarian is related to Quenya, and we have some ideas of
how the shift...
Hello there, My name is Jens Boerner, I'm german, tolkien fan, and lately I my interest in the elvish languages raised. Now, being new in this subject I'm on...
Friends, loremasters, free.net.peoples! This is perhaps a tad OT for Elfling. I beg your indulgence, Dorothea! Please help me to come up with as many tenses,...
... Well, I hardly suppose I can bring anything new to all of you, but, as I have had once a very similar idea (i.e. of creating a language where all nouns...
... Eeerr... Javi, actually, there is... Intervocalic G, B and D sounds are fricative in Spanish, though their frication isn't very strong; by times they are...
This is to announce that issue No. 15 of Tyalie Tyelellieva is coming out. I hope to have it in the mail to everyone this week. This issue has the legal...
... Mine dictionary don't recognize the existence of the word "polysynthetic"... I guess it's having something to do with synthetic = inflecting languages, but...
... Perhaps that weird czech "rzh" sound (like in Dvorak)? I can't remember ever seen a IPA sign for it; an oldish (ca 1975) encyclopadia of mine renders it ...
... the 3 symbol? We don't have to make a big mystery out of this. In LR:360, Christopher Tolkien adds a note explaining that _3_ is the "back spirant" - that...
Could anyone please explain the difference between the Possesive case and the Genetive case? David Grimfors _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_...
Just a short note on infinitives. So, Quenya has a number of "infinitives". This is reassuring, because it was somehow to be expected, not least since Finnish...
... Might been me, for all that I know. An old "käpphäst" of mine. French is a prime example of such a language -- it is in fact polysynthetic, but its...
... It is one of the sources. The other is a Medieval Spanish Z with a swashy lower stroke used for /dz/. With a Swashy upper stroke it was used for /ts/ and...
... Um, I won't question your authority as a native speaker, but in the (European) variety of Spanish spoken by my Spanish relatives, Spanish /g/, as in...
... "Aorist" is a name of a tense of a verb. The word itself means "unlimited" or "undetermined" or such (greek "alfa privativum" + "horos"="limit") and in...
... suuya- is relatively easy; I'd use _usuunie_, on the modely of avaanie. tuia- is more complicate; it ought to have been *utuuyie at one point, but that...
... Is that space in _oore nia_ really supposed to be there? The element _nia_ is obviously related to the Q ending _-nya_, and _cavaria_ "his/her house" from...
... In Spanish, there is not actually a voiced velar fricative, but unvoiced. It is spelt "j" before "a" (as in my own name), "o", "u", and "g" before "e", ...
... "shack" than "house"? I think the cases are good enough, but the stem of _kar_ "house" is _kard-_, hence allative _kardenna_. But a later (post-LotR)...
... Golden Hero would become when combined into one name ( like laure + whatever hero would be = laure###e (masculine)). Hero = _callo_. Hence _Laurecallo_. ...
... I see a problem in Tolkien's ascription of the noun órë (oore) to an older *3ooree or *hooree (root 3OR or HOR). In various texts, as old as Etymologies...
... It seems reasonable that the perfect could be formed directly from the root and not from the present stem, when the suffixed variant used in the present...
What does it mean when there are X's and H's after some of the words (e.g. aira X, aire H). I don't know if they are part of the word because I just started...
Dear friends, [The text just below is typed in ISO-8859-1 characters, refer to the interlinear text if you can't handle them.] Lathron ben ned eryn, glamor o...
... I'm not entirely sure if this answer blongs to your question, if you wanted to translate "Dark Man" you'd get _More Atan_ or something similar (there's of...
... *_Miquuva_?? *_Micuuva_? An interesting problem. The Qenya Lexicon gives _miq-_ as the verb "to kiss". The letter Q here denotes a labialized K; Tolkien...
... **_Mauya_ is relatively easy -- if it is _amaavie_. But what perfect does _suuya_ "breathe" have? And also what about the perfect of _tuia_ "sprout"? Any...
