... Quenya. Glad I could help. :) ... Checking my copy of XII:340 I expected there to be an editorial note concerning this. There was not. It seems _Ing-_ is...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Dec 1, 2006 4:13 pm
... The word _*eldalamberon_ is just as 'correct' as _*eldalambion_, but this has nothing to do with Vanyarin Quenya. There are more examples for pl. _-er_,...
33686
tittanii
Dec 1, 2006 7:17 pm
Very helpful suggestions, thank you!! Those two links are also useful; thanks for those as well. ~Kristen~...
33687
ramaroreo
Dec 2, 2006 4:17 pm
... Hi, It suddenly occurred to me today that you quote St. Exupéry, right? If you use that quote, my earlier suggestion "ask for" would sound awkward. I...
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ramaroreo
Dec 2, 2006 7:17 pm
... I think _sa_ means "it" and the sentence would rather require a relative pronoun "that which", so my choice would rather be _tai_. _nin_ is a dative - so...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 3, 2006 5:34 pm
If I were to suggest a Neo-Quenya verb for "borrow", I would start from the root YUK "employ, use" (LR:399). For "use" in general we can assume a verb...
33690
Evenstar
evenstar62
Dec 4, 2006 8:22 pm
Hi!
Tonight one ask me for translating this sentence for a tatoo. Can you help me please?
The text is:
"to believe in life"
or
"to hope in life"
"life"...
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Melroch 'Aestan
melroch
Dec 4, 2006 9:54 pm
... In fact I did at one point coin the forms Q. _yuhtar_ and S. _iuithor_ in the sense of '(Wikipedia) 'user'. See ...
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jediguitargonzo
Dec 5, 2006 9:04 am
'ello... I am cureently a student at UCBerkeley and am working on a project for my sociolinguistics course. My purpose is simply to explore what drives an...
33693
kevkev_77
Dec 5, 2006 9:07 am
... from the root YUK "employ, use" (LR:399). ... cognate of "Noldorin";/Sindarin _iuitho_ (< *_yuktâ), [...] Hi, thank you for your help, in fact I learn the...
33694
falcon16_nut
Dec 9, 2006 7:06 am
Hello. It's been a really long time since I finished the Quenya course or translated anything so there's probably a lot of wrong stuff here. Since I changed...
33695
Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Dec 10, 2006 5:57 pm
... The existence of _ma-_ in _man_, _mana_, _manen_ have led some to theorize that the interrogative "Where?" would be *_massë_. According to the Parma...
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house_of_feanor
Dec 12, 2006 1:12 am
Hi, Any suggestion on how to translate "choice" into Sindarin? So far I haven't been able to find a similar term, apart from Q _cilmë_ "choosing";. I guess...
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S P
elenyona
Dec 12, 2006 6:50 am
... David Salo has put forth *_cilith_ in the RotK movie soundtrack lyrics.[1] It is also good to note here if for education's sake that in some real-world ...
33698
house_of_feanor
Dec 12, 2006 3:57 pm
Thanks for your help HoF ... lyrics.[1] ... real-world ... require...
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elimloth
Dec 13, 2006 5:02 am
I have decided to take a break from my role as moderator of elfling, a duty I took on for four years. Wishing you all the very best, I remain thankful of (and...
33700
aprilshowers1989
aprilshowers...
Dec 13, 2006 9:51 am
I need the word for 'sleep' or something that would be translated as 'the sleeping one'. I need this as a name for a character for a little fic I'm writing,...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Dec 13, 2006 10:37 am
"Sleep" as a verb can be either _lor-_ or _*fum- [hum-]_. Tolkien later decided that "fu-" was a Telerin form and that Quenya made this to be "hu-". The verbal...
33702
Atwe
percival64
Dec 13, 2006 10:59 am
But let us not forget that _fúme_ is a rather early word from LT1, we have no way of knowing whether Tolkien would have considered it as a living and valid...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Dec 13, 2006 12:08 pm
Maybe, but since it exists and we do have Fúmella, I don't see any reason not to use it in neo-Quenya as long as we recognize it as such. I am getting rather...
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Atwe
percival64
Dec 13, 2006 1:04 pm
You may call it "petty pickiness" if you wish - I have just pointed out the many "ifs" implied in such a reconstruction. Peace. Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Dec 13, 2006 2:22 pm
But since this is all centered around someone wanting a name for a character in a story (one that you will probably never read anyway), why do you really care?...
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Matthew Dinse
tyrhael_idhraen
Dec 13, 2006 5:31 pm
... wrote: [...]Besides, _fúmë_ shows up in Helge's Quenya Wordlist with notes about updating the word to _húmë_. [...] The only thing I can comment about...
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Atwe
percival64
Dec 13, 2006 9:01 pm
... From: Matthew Dinse <tyrhael_idhraen@...> To: elfling@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:30:39 PM Subject: [elfling] Re: Quenya for...
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Lakis Lalakis
elfiness
Dec 13, 2006 11:06 pm
I would agree with you,. however we must be aware that Tolkien's conworld is consisted of several parallel universes or continuities. The universe where Qenya...
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Sarah Brockmann
imabiah
Dec 14, 2006 12:21 am
We all of us owe you a debt of thanks for your work, even as we hope that someone else has stepped into your shoes! thanks so much Abiah elimloth...
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aprilshowers1989
aprilshowers...
Dec 14, 2006 12:12 pm
Thanks very much! ... later decided that "fu-" was a Telerin form and that Quenya made this to be "hu-". The verbal form is not attested but is assumed based...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Dec 14, 2006 12:22 pm
... But this is just because Tolkien has changed the phonetical development. In Early Qenya, intial _f-_ comes from stems with F-, while by the time of the...
33712
falcon16_nut
Dec 17, 2006 1:29 pm
Does anyone know what happened to this site? I can't get to the forums and I can't email the webmaster either. Kirsten...
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Arthur Boccaccio
elhanan_austin
Dec 17, 2006 11:09 pm
I'm trying to reconstruct the noun "battle" into Quenya, as in "Battle of Unnumbered Tears". Tolkien conveniently forgot to give us this word. In Sindarin,...
