... spirit ... Nice Hobbit tradition indeed. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you and may this year bring you joy and happiness. ... Maybe you could use "mardenyanna"...
Hello. This is my first post here but I use to read (almost) all that you write. After looking at the new vocabulary from VT47 I was interested in the ...
... Pronouns in Tolkien's mind appear and disappear again - the ó-paradigma in VT43:29 contains only _óme_ as 1st person plural form. Even if another ...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 1, 2006 11:44 am
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Aiya! I'm new to these lists, so let me introduce myself. My [nick]name is Yitzik, I'm a linguist, an interpreter and a conlanger from Ukraine (a republic in ...
I'm looking for a word for 'hawk'. The Quenya Wordlist has _fion_ as a possibility. ... quote: ?HAWK fion (pl fioni, fiondi) (Tolkien's gloss was "not...
Aiya Yitzik, ... say "thirteen"? None that I know, though I suppose you could say 'one and twelve' (mine ar rasta) though this circumlocation would get...
... Funny you would ask that now, since it has been only a few days since the answer has been published in VT48 (there has been of course the number system...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 2, 2006 7:24 am
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For the (probably small number) of fans of Telerin, here's a quick compilation of new Telerin vocabulary found in VT48 (alas - still not more complete...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 2, 2006 12:11 pm
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... It's up to you. But nobody will die if you use it in your fanfic (unless you intend it for a tattoo, in that case i'd be more careful) ... that would be my...
Aiya Bob Powers, I really thank you for your commentaries. I understand that my message was not clear enough wrt "where" and "there": I am not good in giving...
Goodday all, I noticed that in december there was a rapid exchange of Namárië readings and calls for comments. Would it not be a good idea that we all make a...
Goodday all, I had this lying around from about a year ago. Many of you will consider it heresy, no doubt, I'm a little fumbly about it myself, but I was...
Goodday all, I noticed that in december there was a rapid exchange of Namárië readings and calls for comments. Would it not be a good idea that we all make a...
Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote: 1) Is there any way to count numbers beyond 12? E.g. to say "thirteen"? How the numbers are counted past twelve depends on...
Hi all, I'm having trouble trying to figure out the mutation process in a phrase I've translated and I was hoping you could help me with it. The phrase is...
Salut, Je fais un travail sur Númenor et je dois traduire : "Les aigles des Seigneurs de l'Ouest, ils arrivent" en Quenya et en Sindarin. Je connais un peu le...
... Lainiel, in the case of _mhellyn în phain_, the middle word is the reflexive possessive pronoun "his", not "the". I would write _i phith_ instead of _in...
... What I would change is _tulantë_ to _tulintë_. Tolkien translated this phrase as [SD:290] _Sorni Númevalion anner_ ". I don't know if _anner_ is...
Greetings, I am Brandon, and I am writing from the Southern region of the United States of America. I am a third-year language major at university here, and I...
... I can add _ened-_ 'middle' (VT48:25) Well, I have added the stems and CE forms, put in some comments and taken all these words over into the word list...
... available corpus. Some people reconstruct "where" as *massë. I have not yet found any reference to "there". We have the word "here" (="in this place") -...
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 6, 2006 12:31 am
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... Yes there are ways to create new words, by existing roots, adding prefixes and suffixes, making compounds etc respecting the rules. What do you mean by...
... base 10 or a base 12 counting system. Now I see why the replies were different :) I've consulted T.Renk's course, it happened to deal with this issue in...
... First name should also ring bells if you are acquainted with Bosnians of the muslim persuasion. My father is Bosnian, but my mother is Dutch. So, you being...
... (there has been of course the number system outlined in the Early Qenya Grammar that extends up to a million... but that is in some sense rather different...
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 8, 2006 12:21 am
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... since ... _tolob_ 18, ... Hopefully I don't overlook anything in all these confusing layers, but no Sindarin forms are mentioned. In fact, no form beyond...