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3236 Myrtheos@... Send Email Sep 10, 2000
2:34 am
In a message dated 9/9/00 2:41:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, denizakhan@... writes: << But the main thing is all the suffixes in Q. In turkish its also...
3237 Elendil
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Sep 10, 2000
2:35 am
Hello Jerome, Saturday, September 09, 2000, 10:37:54 AM, you wrote: ... JSC> "forget-me-not (n.) any of a genus (Myosotis) of small herbs of the borage JSC>...
3238 Ice Pick
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Sep 10, 2000
2:35 am
But could someone translate those sentances so I may see it in action? I have no access to the necessary information about Turkish to answere my questions in...
3239 Jonathan Erbe
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Sep 11, 2000
2:16 am
... I believe the Forget-Me-Not is a small blue flower. At least, that's the flower which I always called a Forget-Me-Not. Erunantion ... ...
3240 David Kiltz
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Sep 11, 2000
2:16 am
Andreas Johansson schrieb am ÒRe: [elfling] Avari and AvarsÓ. [2000/09/09 22:50] ... I think the point is that in Latin there are masculine words in the o- ...
3241 Raymond Brown
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... [snip] ... You're confused because the information you received is certainly incorrect. There are two possibilities: (1) If the plural is *Avari then the...
3242 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... Just out of curiosity, does it have anything to do with _theode-_, as in Theoderik, and similar words for people (eg Icelandic _thjodh_, German _deut-_)?...
3243 Lukas Novak
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... Me seems you are right. I have not found this word in neither of my dictionaries, but the plural -i would imply that it belongs to the -o stem class (II....
3244 Lukas Novak
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... Mhm, I do not think it is such a problem. One could think of many ways how this final state could have developed - e.g. there originally was the plural -i-...
3245 Deniz
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... somewhat "big". ... Quenya by a ... derivational changes ... position ... could give a ... question ... I totally agree with you on this one. It is hard to...
3246 Deniz
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... action? For example: In english grammar the sentences consists of SVO while in turkish it´s SOV, just for basics. I ate the apple, is in T Ben elmayi...
3247 Deniz
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Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
... like ... romance ... instead use ... familliar ... the fassion ... Olde ... example ... Sinitic ... based ... That I didn´t know. But my intention was not...
3248 Myrtheos@... Send Email Sep 11, 2000
2:17 am
In a message dated 9/9/00 10:35:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, and_yo@... writes: << ><< Somewhat off-topic, but can some lambengolmo on the list tell me...
3249 Maciej Zenczykowski
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Sep 12, 2000
12:38 am
... Forget-me-not is a blue (a little white) flower, in Polish it is called 'niezapominajka' = 'don't forget', obviously very close to the Czech name for it. ...
3250 Raymond Brown
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Sep 12, 2000
12:38 am
At 11:39 am +0100 10/9/00, I wrote: [....] ... And at 11:23 am +0200 10/9/00, David Kiltz wrote: [....] ... Yep - but with the single exception of 'vir', they...
3251 Lukas Novak
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Sep 12, 2000
12:38 am
JSC> "forget-me-not (n.) any of a genus (Myosotis) of small herbs of the borage JSC> family having bright-blue or white flowers usually arranged in a curving ...
3252 Angasule
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Sep 12, 2000
12:38 am
... In Old Icelandic -rik means power or ruler, I think, if it's the same ending then Theoderik I guess would mean something like 'powerful ruler', or maybe...
3253 David Kiltz
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Sep 12, 2000
12:40 am
Andreas Johansson schrieb am ÒRe: [elfling] Digest Number 134Ó. [2000/09/09 22:41] ... Yes. It is a -n derivative. Cf. also OldSaxon _thiodan_, OldIcelandic ...
3254 Lisa Star
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Sep 12, 2000
12:40 am
... **Andreas is right, it's not a simple thing, and I'll give you an example to show why. Here is an entry from the QQ which I picked not exactly at random....
3255 John Cowan
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Sep 12, 2000
12:45 am
... HOWEVER, Latin has the "mutus cum liquida" exception, whereby a stop followed by "l" or "r" does not make the second syllable long by position, as this ...
3256 John Cowan
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Sep 12, 2000
12:45 am
... This seems to be the right declension. Einhard's life of Charlemagne (on the Web at http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/ein.html) contains the...
3257 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Sep 12, 2000
12:46 am
... it. Of course, the words in the lexicon is not identical to LotR- style or mature Quenya. And what I wonder is: How can i transform the QL-words into ...
3258 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 12, 2000
12:46 am
... Actually, based on the history of the Avars, I'd guess that the name isn't Latin originally. Rather, it could be Avaric perhaps Germanic (since the ...
3259 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 12, 2000
12:46 am
... Well, you should probably ask someone more knowledgeable in this respect than me. Ask Helge Fauskanger for a copy of his Quettaparmar, BTW. It contains a ...
3260 David Kiltz
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Sep 12, 2000
12:46 am
Lukas Novak schrieb am Ò[elfling] Re:(Simbelmyne) VergissmeinnichtÓ. [2000/09/09 16:04] ... Thank you all for your replies ! It looks as though we have an...
3261 Terry A. Dock
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Sep 12, 2000
12:47 am
Myosotis and Forget-me-not are indeed the same flowers, with small white (or purple) flowers. I also wonder if Tolkien intended his _simbelmyne_ to be a kind...
3262 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Sep 13, 2000
6:43 pm
... language? Specially Quenya. I'll name my sword like that (it means 'secret lore guard/warrior&#39; in Old Norse) and I haven't been able to find a 'folk ...
3263 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 13, 2000
6:51 pm
... Perhaps not very; practically ALL nomadic peoples that came from the east during medieval times very associated with the Huns. Avars, Magyars, Pechenegs to...
3264 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 13, 2000
6:52 pm
... [WARNING! Whining ahead!] AARRGH! The single Latin dictionary at school is a) dedicated solely to words that occures in the Classics, b) so unimaginatively...
3265 Andreas Johansson
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Sep 13, 2000
6:52 pm
... You're right about _-rik_. Infact, it's the North Germanic reflex of PIE *_regs_ "king", cognate of words like _rex_ and _rajah_. There's also the masc...
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