Dear Friends, a long-long time ago in another galaxy I already did this translation in (Neo)Quenya, the poem The Prayer of Yonas by Mihály Babits (link: ...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Nov 26, 2004 11:56 am
Old Nose _Auðunn_ is the equivalent of English _Edwin_, Old English _Eadwine_ and Longobard _Auddoin_, which IIRC Tolkien translated into Quenya somewhere in ...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Nov 26, 2004 12:03 pm
I just found it thanks to "Quenya Lapseparma" (just Google for "lapseparma"!) JRRT's Quenya translation of Edwin is _Herendil_. The Sindarin equivalent might...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 26, 2004 12:24 pm
... I remember this on Alboin (Elfwine) ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí...
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melgalon
Nov 26, 2004 12:59 pm
Wow, this whent above all excpectations! I was trying to get a translation that wasn't too wrong, and i got a translation that could be more correct (as...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Nov 26, 2004 1:17 pm
... My girlfriend's middle name is Helena, so I have given this name some thought in the past! :) "Corposant" means "St. Elmo's fire", see: ...
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melgalon
Nov 26, 2004 6:32 pm
... Ja det var til stor hjelp! I'm just gonna show her your post and i bet she will be satisfied. One thing i allso have to ask before i stop all my foolish...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Nov 26, 2004 6:39 pm
... No it wouldn't, since _Valinor_ is not a possible name of a person. You could use _Valinórion_, which would mean "son of Valinor" (Or _Asgaardsen_ in...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 26, 2004 9:02 pm
... and if so, i'd like to meet her ;p ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí...
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melgalon
Nov 27, 2004 2:31 am
Since I obviously can't find a suitable word for "Rikdom" (wealth/fortune) in S, I have decided to try in Q instead, and after looking at the wordlist at...
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melgalon
Nov 27, 2004 2:33 am
Ok, i'm sorry for all the posts now, made a mistake in my last post. I i used _manar_ for fortune/wealth, but i found out later that, it was wrong, i looked at...
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Ohtarwen Elennárë
elennare
Nov 27, 2004 2:35 am
Aiya, I might just throw in that things relating to the middle of winter don't do a lot for those of us who celebrate Christmas in mid-summer! So a word...
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Roman aka Elvellon
elvellon@...
Nov 27, 2004 8:05 am
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:32:23 +0100, Melgalon <melgalon@...> ... We have many examples of the names in _-ndil_ without any further suffixes, like...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 27, 2004 10:08 am
might, but AFAIK manar is a plural word... I don't know of any -dil name formed with a plural word :S but OTOH it might work... who can tell? ... ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 27, 2004 10:19 am
... oops i am sorry too for replying to that :P ... ah no... the endings -we, -o, -on, -ion, -e, -iel, -ien are suffixes for when the name is composed by one ...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 27, 2004 10:27 am
Interesting!!! although the one in LOTR is Eomer's son :) ... ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Nov 27, 2004 11:48 am
... Why are you unhappy with _Herendil_? I don't have the books by me right now, but HKF says under _heren_: (2) "fortune" etymologically "governance" ("and...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Nov 27, 2004 1:41 pm
AIRELINDE ATTAYUNQUEA Translation of Psalm 24 Petri Tikka 1 [[Laviro Airelinde.]] Eruva ná cemen, ar ilqua i tass' ea; Endórë, ar i tasse marir. 2 An...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Nov 27, 2004 6:37 pm
... Wonderful to se an s-aorist alive and kicking! Does modern Greek still distinguish aorist, perfect and imperfect? (Well I guess katharevousa would, but...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 27, 2004 8:33 pm
... yes it does.. but what is an s-aorist?? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí...
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Iain Dalton
mastachief_usmc
Nov 28, 2004 6:57 am
... Actually, the cycles of the Moon are pretty regular, so much so that most Asian countries and many other societies in the past actually used a calendar...
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Roman aka Elvellon
elvellon@...
Nov 28, 2004 6:58 am
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:27:24 +0000 (GMT), Gildor Inglorion ... I once tried to count all the occurences of these names (about 5 total); and found out that...
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Iain Dalton
mastachief_usmc
Nov 28, 2004 6:58 am
... Wouldn't you want to preserve sexless quality that when coming up with a Quenya or Sindarin name? Iain Dalton...
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Iain Dalton
mastachief_usmc
Nov 28, 2004 6:59 am
... Well, does it really mean _both_ wealth _and_ fortune at the same time, or is it a one-or-the-other type of thing? Where did you look your name up, by the...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 28, 2004 9:24 am
I know that, but AFAIK, those lunar calendars aren't that exact ... but you haven't told yet, where do the Elves appear to observe the moon for their...
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BP Jonsson
melroch
Nov 28, 2004 12:00 pm
... No it means "friend *of* wealth/fortune";: _auð_ is "wealth/fortune" and _-unn_ is a contraction of _vinr_ "friend", as evidenced in the Old English...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 28, 2004 1:46 pm
... how are those final r's are pronounced in these languages? like Gandalfr? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
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melroch@...
melroch
Nov 28, 2004 7:09 pm
... In Indo-European there were two kinds of aorists, the one formed with an -s- before the personal endings and the other with the bare root. Most verbs have...
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melroch@...
melroch
Nov 28, 2004 7:17 pm
... This -r is the masculine nominative singular ending. It goes back to Germanic *z and in viking times it was still an ž-like sound, but by Old Icelandic...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Nov 28, 2004 7:18 pm
maybe you say about future and aorist, that share the same root, and are based on -s for example, the verb luo (root lu), has f. luso and a. elusa or is it...
