[msg1] Hello, I am new to this group. I am trying to find out how to say "Star Trek" in Quenya. The nearest I can get is Elende or "star journey", but that...
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aelindis
Aug 1, 2006 5:35 pm
... wrote: I am trying to find out how to say "Star Trek" in ... German. As far as I know _Elendë_ means "the regions [in Valinor] where the Elves dwelt, and...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Aug 1, 2006 5:57 pm
... Nota also that "Elende" is stressed on the penultimate -end- and the initial E- is short, whereas "Elend" has the initial E- long and stressed (and very...
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Harm J. Schelhaas
mithrennaith
Aug 2, 2006 6:17 pm
... My native language is Dutch, in which the cognate (and equivalent) of "Elend" is "ellende", in which the double l does not serve to indicate a long l, but...
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Joan Drushel
sailorlorien
Aug 3, 2006 4:22 am
... You are right, of course. Unfortunately, most people looking at the words wouldn't know the difference. There are most likely more people familiar with...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Aug 3, 2006 6:59 am
Ambar Eldaron is proud to present the famous wordlist of Helge Fauskanger into French as we are presenting another French translation of his website...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 4, 2006 1:16 pm
Thanks to extensive comments by Roman Rausch, I believe most of the major mistakes are sorted out and I have placed a new version for download on my site while...
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dirk_math
Aug 7, 2006 8:20 am
A year has slipped by since the first Omentielva, and a year from now Omentielva Tatya will be held. Registration will soon open; meanwhile, find out more...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Aug 7, 2006 3:15 pm
Let me repeat my last points: A very late text tells us: "[...] the Beorian word for 'foam' [...]: rôs, Its older form [was] roth (róţ). This was used in...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 8, 2006 6:57 am
In writing an introduction, my concerns are admittedly more of practical nature than in writing a scholarly analysis. So let me give some practical ... If you...
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Joan Drushel
sailorlorien
Aug 9, 2006 4:33 am
This looks very interesting, but, unfortunately, I know there is no way I will be able to travel to Belgium. Are there similar Tolkien language conferences in...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Aug 9, 2006 6:40 pm
... As I understand Lowdham Old Adunaic had palatals, but they had merged with /s/ and /z/ by the time of the Downfall, so this is not a problem, it is simply...
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michiru
michiru_benson
Aug 9, 2006 9:10 pm
Mae govannen, elvellyn! I reviewed the workbook "Pedin Edhellen" by Mr. Renk, and found I got another question for your course. There is a translation in page...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 10, 2006 7:35 am
... "The Sindarin Case system" http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/cases.html would contain the long answer - here's the short version. As indeed you...
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michiru
michiru_benson
Aug 10, 2006 10:17 am
... Sindarin is ... Dative ... i-Estel ... someone ... but ... 'to ... apparent ... Hmm... possible. And while some others don't think _mhellyn_ is a dative,...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 10, 2006 10:35 am
... Even if you think _mhellyn_ an accusative - I still have to see an unlenited Dative anywhere. I call it 'myth' because I have seen it presented as hard...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Aug 10, 2006 12:52 pm
[Thorsten:] ... ...which doesn't remove the necessity of scholarly analysis (at some spots). But one can just put the results of such an analysis into the ...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Aug 12, 2006 11:17 am
... As a side note, _olympia_ is actually often pronounced as _olumppia_ - although the high-brows at the Language Bureau don't like that. Nevertheless, it is...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Aug 12, 2006 10:06 pm
A few days ago I uploaded new versions of my Quenya wordlists: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/eng-quen.rtf http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/quen-eng.rtf The main...
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Kayla Goetsch
kaylag@...
Aug 13, 2006 7:10 am
I had a few people tell me that the plural of Mallorn was just to say ,"mallorn trees" But i personally think it would be Mellyrn...which is right? [Non-text...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Aug 13, 2006 8:33 am
... Both. The former in Enghlish, the latter in Sindarin. Lukas...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 13, 2006 12:05 pm
First, my thanks to Helge for maintaining the wordlists - they are a very valuable resource not only for composition but also for scholarly analysis. The...
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house_of_feanor
Aug 13, 2006 11:18 pm
Greetings! I'm back with a translation into Old English of a text from Unfinished Tales "Cirion and Éorl". I'd really appreciate if those of you interested in...
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roberthahl
Aug 15, 2006 12:11 am
A translation of an Irish Hymn. The melody many of you should recognize from "When Johnny comes marching home" or "The ants go marching one by one". There are...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 15, 2006 10:40 am
... Very true. But let me briefly explain what I mean with practical concerns: People interested in Adunaic probably know of the language from the ...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Aug 15, 2006 10:43 am
... Thanks for clarifying. I didn't make this up by the way, it's based on an explanation given by my Finnish-teacher who told me that both _olumpia_ and...
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Atwe
percival64
Aug 16, 2006 10:34 am
Dear Friends, when translating/composing neoEldarin texts the author often face a dilemma how to translate idiomatic expressions, for want of authentic options...
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Evenstar
evenstar62
Aug 17, 2006 6:27 pm
Hello! I ask for some help for translating this sentence... main problem: how can we translate "become"...? /L'ętre le plus irrésistible sur terre est le...
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elhath *
elenyona
Aug 17, 2006 7:26 pm
... A very good start syntactically, methinks. At the moment of writing this message, my mishmashtic vocabulary preferences would look like this: - *_noia-_...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Aug 17, 2006 9:55 pm
... Just nit-picking, but I don't think **cemessë is possible since _cemen_ is indeclinable; rather Tolkien wrote _cemendë_ (Átaremma IIb-VI) or _cemenzë_...
