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31173 elimloth Send Email Feb 5, 2005
6:29 pm
VT 47 is forthcoming: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/776 elimloth...
31174 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Feb 5, 2005
7:09 pm
... then _cenie [amatirie]nen_? ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí @yahoo.gr...
31175 nightdarkeyes@...
larwen81 Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
2:39 am
Thank you, Aaron. lol... I already am surprised at how much i never learned. I think that they should require such a course at all universities. Any study of...
31176 lsgallant Send Email Feb 6, 2005
2:42 am
Well, maybe not man eating wolves, since wolves do not eat men (or women or even beginning Elvish students like me). But still I don't want to get discouraged...
31177 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
3:57 pm
... nd in Sindarin is usually simplified in nn when not in the end of words... same happens with nt take for example the primitive ngandele which in Sindarin...
31178 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
4:13 pm
1 Corinthians 13 in Quenya: 1 Mai quetinye lambínen hínive ar ainuive, mal lá haryanye melme, nánye rávea calas var lamyala tontil. 2 Ar mai haryanye anna ...
31179 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
5:42 pm
... Aia, where is _apaitya-_ "to benefit" from? It is not mentioned in any of the obvious places coming to mind... For one I might use _voronwie_ for "faith",...
31180 choken
choken_se Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
6:16 pm
Hi, I'm trying to write some material to a serious larp clan. One smaller thing I'm working on is a poem about a oath of vengeance. First little context info....
31181 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Feb 6, 2005
9:56 pm
... _apaitya_ 'conquer&#39; (PE12:34). Not literally 'to benefit', rather a paraphrase. Cf. Finnish translation of verse 3: "en sillä mitään voittaisi" = lit....
31182 Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@... Send Email
Feb 7, 2005
2:27 am
Hello, some comments from an absolute non-expert (to the first part only): ... _hínion ar ainuion_ (_tón anthrópón kai tón angellón_) ? ... _terceniéva_...
31183 lsgallant Send Email Feb 7, 2005
7:37 am
Thank you once again for helping me to understand the technical stuff. I have not studied any Sindarin yet, except the vocab in the books. I am trying Quenya...
31184 Petri Tikka
petristikka Send Email
Feb 7, 2005
2:09 pm
... No, the genitive case is not used of the speakers of a language: "Similarly _lambe Eldaron_ would not be used for 'the language of the Eldar' (unless...
31185 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Feb 7, 2005
2:11 pm
Okay, let's speculate a bit... ... Merriam-Webster says about 'believe&#39;: Main Entry: be·lieve Pronunciation: b&-'lEv Function: verb Inflected Form(s):...
31186 Lukas Novak
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Feb 8, 2005
9:11 pm
... It is not so much a matter of misunderstanding as a matter of impropriety of usage. But even the original Greek is not quite clear: it has present...
31187 Jerry Aurand(Fillan)
aurandfillan@... Send Email
Feb 9, 2005
3:22 pm
"I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew: Yes, but "there" here is in a locative sense: "in that place"...but "there grew" is rather...
31188 katter415 Send Email Feb 10, 2005
7:11 am
I was told to redirect my post here, where I would be helped with the translation rather than the writing of the translation. Originally I was trying to...
31189 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Feb 10, 2005
9:59 am
... the root lav- is not to be used as a complete verb form, but it needs endings and suffixes... -n is not a proper suffix to be stuck there, first of all...
31190 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Feb 10, 2005
12:33 pm
... What is the vocalic lengthening of the verb based on? Certainly not _á vala Manwe_ (WJ:404). That said, _á tul*a*_ in VT43:14 looks... interesting --...
31191 Gildor Inglorion
elfiness Send Email
Feb 10, 2005
1:30 pm
... it's based on that i confused imperative with the present tense stem ;p ... right, see above explanation ;p ... i thought that dative would fit there.. if...
31192 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Feb 10, 2005
5:15 pm
... You mean the VT? Me no own. ... I was just thinking Finnish (where a normal infinitive follows _sallia/antaa_ + a genitive object). Q. _-ie(n)_ might go...
31193 Atwe
percival64 Send Email
Feb 10, 2005
8:25 pm
Hi, I think I would go for the short form, as with other Quenya "auxiliaries&quot; like _pole_, _ista_, _lerta_. Shine on, ... what's ... I was just thinking...
31194 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Feb 11, 2005
12:15 am
Hi, in his Sindarin Grammar Theory ( http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/sindarin_grammar.htm#adjective ), Ryszard Derdzinski presents that the Primitive Eldarin stem...
31195 octave_up Send Email Feb 12, 2005
7:55 am
Hello. I am trying to translate a phrase in Sindarin for a friend, and I want to make sure that this is correct before I send it off. _nin brannon nestatha...
31196 mzagai Send Email Feb 12, 2005
10:01 am
hello my name is Moshe and i need help with the fallowing translation into quenya for a set of rings: "till the dieing of the sun and the falling of the moon,...
31197 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Feb 12, 2005
5:13 pm
Having read elath's and Gildor Inglorion's posts about this, I thought I would give you my take: Allow me to love, hope and laugh. Ánin lavë melë, amatirë...
31198 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Feb 12, 2005
5:25 pm
octave_up wrote: Hello. I am trying to translate a phrase in Sindarin for a friend, and I want to make sure that this is correct before I send it off. _nin...
31199 coegwendeth Send Email Feb 12, 2005
5:59 pm
... [...] ... for ... Possessives follow... it would be Brannon nín - don't forget the accent. ;-) gwendeth...
31200 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Feb 12, 2005
6:24 pm
Welcome to Elfing. Here are some suggestions. till the dying of the sun and the falling of the moon "dying" and "falling" are gerunds or verbal-nouns. The verb...
31201 elhath *
elenyona Send Email
Feb 12, 2005
6:56 pm
... I think _hîr_ conveys dominion over the speaker, while _brannon_ might be a more "general" word = noble-person, one of the nobility. Elhath ...
31202 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Feb 12, 2005
7:18 pm
It is my pleasure to announce that the first part of the italian translation of my Quenya course 'Quetin i lambe eldaiva' is now available on Parma...
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