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32936 ramaroreo Send Email Feb 1, 2006
8:06 am
... spirit ... Nice Hobbit tradition indeed. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you and may this year bring you joy and happiness. ... Maybe you could use "mardenyanna&quot;...
32937 Bancado
javi_bancado Send Email
Feb 1, 2006
8:11 am
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 ...
32938 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Feb 1, 2006
11:44 am
... 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 ...
32939 Isaac Penzev
yitzik_ua Send Email
Feb 1, 2006
6:27 pm
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 ...
32940 psalm19us Send Email Feb 2, 2006
4:58 am
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...
32941 roberthahl Send Email Feb 2, 2006
6:44 am
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...
32942 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Feb 2, 2006
7:24 am
... 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...
32943 Thorsten Renk
trenk@... Send Email
Feb 2, 2006
12:11 pm
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...
32944 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Feb 2, 2006
12:32 pm
... 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...
32945 Isaac Penzev
yitzik_ua Send Email
Feb 2, 2006
4:57 pm
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...
32946 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 3, 2006
4:03 pm
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...
32947 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 3, 2006
4:18 pm
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...
32948 rainalcar Send Email Feb 3, 2006
4:47 pm
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...
32949 psalm19us Send Email Feb 3, 2006
7:08 pm
... Agreed! ... Thank you very much....
32950 Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin Send Email
Feb 3, 2006
9:37 pm
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...
32951 Kris Kowal
cowbertvonmoo Send Email
Feb 4, 2006
8:43 am
/me is entertained having read it. Plz post the tune :-). If you need help with hosting, contact me privately. Kris....
32952 Lainiel
ceciliania Send Email
Feb 4, 2006
8:44 am
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...
32953 taure_87 Send Email Feb 4, 2006
8:50 am
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...
32954 Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen Send Email
Feb 4, 2006
6:39 pm
... 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...
32955 Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen Send Email
Feb 4, 2006
6:58 pm
... 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...
32956 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Feb 5, 2006
11:06 am
... Tolkien would also write it as 'i-phith&#39; ___________________________________________________________ ×ñçóéìïðïéåßôå Yahoo!; ...
32957 vader_wannabe Send Email Feb 5, 2006
5:03 pm
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...
32958 Roman Rausch
rausch_roman Send Email
Feb 5, 2006
5:39 pm
... I can add _ened-_ 'middle&#39; (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...
32959 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Feb 6, 2006
12:31 am
... 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") -...
32960 Palatinus
elfiness Send Email
Feb 6, 2006
2:08 pm
... 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...
32961 Isaac Penzev
yitzik_ua Send Email
Feb 6, 2006
5:18 pm
... 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...
32962 Eddin Najetovic
eldin_of_cui... Send Email
Feb 7, 2006
11:17 am
... 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...
32963 rainalcar Send Email Feb 7, 2006
1:59 pm
... From: "Eddin Najetovic" <enajetovic@...> To: <elfling@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:17 PM Subject: RE: [elfling] Digest...
32964 Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@... Send Email
Feb 8, 2006
12:21 am
... (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...
32965 Roman Rausch
rausch_roman Send Email
Feb 8, 2006
3:09 pm
... 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...
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