Could you (or anyone else) perhaps be of help on the intensive form of adjectives in f-, v-...? There is my mail that I sent somewhere......
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rainalcar
Sep 12, 2005 2:09 am
Thanks Quildarener, so I had a good hunch about it (although I wasn't APSOLUTLY sure about it. Can you perhaps the form feuvie from quenya phonology?). But...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 11, 2005 11:24 pm
... I had every intention of doing so when I wrote the Rogue's Guide to Sindarin word reconstruction http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/rogue.html - but I...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 11, 2005 11:02 pm
... Would you care to explain to us why? It seems to me that _-ie_ is a development going back to an infinitive/gerund formation in CE (for stem verbs that is)...
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quildarener
Sep 11, 2005 8:41 pm
After thinking it over for several days, I will belatedly eat some more crow and fully accept Thorsten's yanen for "the way/how" in the sentence "Melin yanen...
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quildarener
Sep 11, 2005 8:09 pm
With apologies to Alcarcalimo and the list, I would like to change ... <triangle_symbol@y...> ... see ... makes "mára ... Some might prefer Namaarie to Maara...
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quildarener
Sep 11, 2005 7:22 pm
... ilquen ... If you mean how they are related in the evolution of Quenya, munta is very early Quenya or Qenya from the Qenya Grammar, written about the same...
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quildarener
Sep 11, 2005 5:19 pm
... _car_ I ... likewise ... I would suggest *feuyale for tbis particular verb. But if the idea of "loathing"; is not too far from your intended meaning there...
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Vicente Velasco
rashbold
Sep 11, 2005 4:50 pm
... I would not use the -ie suffix too much to express the gerund, no matter if it is attested. For example, the gerund of the verb _car_ I would use the form...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness
Sep 11, 2005 5:13 am
... I'd also advice you to print and read didier willis' dictionary. Not for learning words, but for checking each word's etymology fom OS. A single read wold...
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rainalcar
Sep 11, 2005 5:10 am
Can someone tell me how is this related to il-qua 'everything', ilquen 'everybody' and how to say 'no one'? Thx...
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rainalcar
Sep 11, 2005 5:08 am
feuya- Is it feu-ie or perhaps aia -> aiya; analogicly feuie ->feuwie -> feuvie or something else?...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 11, 2005 12:35 am
Deriving conclusions about Eldarin grammar is often complex and not a unique procedure, which is reflected in (often for that reason difficult to read)...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 10, 2005 11:15 pm
... Which, for me, raises the obvious question - 'Do we want to develop a fuller vocabulary?' In other words, could we not do with a language which lacks a...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 10, 2005 10:52 pm
... No, this corresponds to a different class of past tenses attested in Sindarin (cf. _ónen_ 'gave' and _agor_ 'made') quite distinct from 'mixed ...
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quildarener
Sep 10, 2005 9:32 pm
... thinking I ... approximation ... not ... hence e.g. ... simplified, ... exists, ... vocalized, ... tegol_ ... rather ... melethril_ ... (LR:372) - ... ...
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quildarener
Sep 10, 2005 8:38 pm
... of us ... deeply in ... journey; that seems to me to just Anthony Appleyard's (plausible) interpretation of the attested translation "Good-bye," of which...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Sep 10, 2005 6:40 pm
... I suggest that you first read " Historical linguistics : an introduction" by Lyle Campbell, and then read the historical phonology chapter of David Salo's...
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quildarener
Sep 10, 2005 5:39 pm
... As I've said, this depends on your approach to the material. Whoever wants to write/translate substantially in Quenya working from the available material...
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quildarener
Sep 10, 2005 5:06 pm
... and I am ... generally ... he's the ONLY role model (that I'm aware of) for this question or Neo-Quenya in general. Not that I would follow him blindly or ...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Sep 10, 2005 2:47 pm
"Helge K. Fauskanger" <helge.fauskanger@...> wrote: We must realize that if we are ever to develop a fuller Neo-Quenya/Sindarin vocabulary, we should...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Sep 10, 2005 1:21 am
I have been following the discussion of Quildarener and Thorsten, and I am of course flattered to notice that both seem to regard me as a generally good role...
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rainalcar
Sep 9, 2005 5:02 pm
I was wandering, are there any clues that these adjectives that begin with vowels f-, v-, originate from older ph-, kh-? If so, ph-, kh- could become p-, k-...
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quildarener
Sep 9, 2005 3:00 pm
My inexperience with Sindarin (and, I hope, no more) may be showing in these questions, but I would like to ask: 1) Can this Sindarin "mixed-conjugation"; type...
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Atwe
percival64
Sep 9, 2005 8:04 am
... (and I would think ... favored QL mande ... which the QL gives ... Ardalambion's Quenya ... mentioning the VT mai ... sentence like mai ... Quenya too...
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quenarth
Sep 9, 2005 8:03 am
... us ... in ... Here's something that might help as you look at more 'farewells.' 'Goodbye' is the outcome of wearing down 'God be with ye.' It's not hard to...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 9, 2005 2:42 am
... Hm... I guess I AM confusing here. So, let me try to be less confusing. What I oppose is the general notion 'Qenya words from the QL are as relevant for...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Sep 8, 2005 5:47 pm
... I would guess that this may come as a surprise, but after some thinking I find _quetil_ not at all implausible. First, note that the concept of an _-il_...
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elhath *
elenyona
Sep 8, 2005 4:29 pm
... If we are talking about a name older than the Third Age (since the wolf-word you use comes from an NG-root), the end result might also be transcribed as ...
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quildarener
Sep 8, 2005 3:14 pm
After saying I would have used QL mande for "well" if it weren't for mai "because there was no other word for it," I remembered QL vande = "well," from the...
