... "Laugh", I assume, is imitation. For a less merry, jovial laugh - more of a Hammer Horror "Muhahahaha!" - would I be better using _anganga_/_nganganga_ or...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Oct 6, 2000 12:36 am
Dear friends, I don't think that Helge Fauskanger mentioned this very interesting point in his (otherwise excellent) review of Vinyar Tengwar #41 some days...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Oct 6, 2000 1:21 am
Dear friends, We currently know several quenya adjectives ending in -ite: - From the Etymologies: formaite "lefthanded", hyarmaite "righthanded, dexterous", ...
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Lisa Star
amlug4@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:54 pm
... **they seem to be related phonologically to the many Sindarin forms ending in -ith, such as cirith, tirith, etc. (snip excellent list, and other stuff) ......
3497
Gildor Inglorion
gildor@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
the Klingon language isntitute (www.kli.org) has a page (http://www.kli.org/kli/langs) where are displayed info about the institute in many languages (even...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
Aiya! Thursday, October 05, 2000, 9:52:39 PM, Ales Bican wrote: Thank you for your suggestions. ... AB> **Did you mean _uumea_ adj. "evil" or *_uume_ "an...
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Didier Willis
didier.willis@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
Dear friends, I should rather have entitled this message "Annuunaid vs. enaid"... In PM/316, the name of Westron is given as Annuunaid (in Sindarin), or Aduuni...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
I am not of the persons that could criticise, but I dare to have some questions, though... ... Why A-cala, A-lala - is the A-prefixed infinitive the way how to...
3501
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
... I suppose a misunderstanding occured here - acording to the Czech translation the sentence should read: "Come out with me to have a walk and look at the ...
3502
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
I've had some thoughts on negations in Quenya... What about the negative pronouns (or quantifiers)? We have "nobody" "uuner" - one of the Tuurin's names (UT)....
3503
Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
**Geeeee, eh, *_cil-_ should be "choose" and _cilta-_ "devide". I was confused by Lukas' gloss. Sorry. Ales Bican (not always accurate) ... -- **Varför...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
... Shouldn't _a tule_ "come!" be _a tula_? Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail...
3505
Diego Seguí
tirachinas@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:55 pm
Just a question, for a paper I'm preparing (not on Linguistics):
¿Is there any further precision made on the matter of the dates of the
different versions of...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:56 pm
... I can't say that I find the idea that _iquista_ and _quilde_ are derived from the same root *KWID very convincing. However, there's a possibility that...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 7, 2000 7:00 pm
... **Thanks. ... **Simply because _inya_ rhymes better with _vinya_ than _oorenya_. ... **I just assumed that when we can 'normally' say _nai elye hiruva_ and...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:24 pm
... Um, since the _-th_ of Sindarin cirith, tirith etc must be derived from PQ _-tt-_ or _-th-_, and none of these should yield _-t-_, exactly how do you think...
3509
Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:24 pm
... If there indeed is a distinction between "aorist" and "present tense" for non-basic verbs like _anta-_ "give" (according to VT41 there is, but the ...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... **Maybe, who knows. I and Helge think that imperatives could be formed like this. There is _aava kare_ "don't do it" wherein _aava_ is _a + ava_ and _ava_...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... **"When the bare stem of the verb is used (as after 'see' and 'hear') as infinitive _na- is prefixed if the noun is the object not the subject." (MC:233)....
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... **Hm, might I know why? ... **I mentioned this, because you wrote _uuna_ which follows the same pattern as _uuye_. This does not mean that _ye_ should be...
3513
Lisa Star
amlug4@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... **I like the work that you have done on the phonology, but I don't think that your conclusions are correct. In QQ, Tolkien gives two roots (note that...
3514
Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
Hello, Once I wrote a poem in Czech, the only of the three I ever wrote I liked a bit, but I lost it and could not put the verses together out of memory....
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... _Laa! Laa!_ ... I guess "no! no!" here means "please, PLEASE don't do that do me!" (and I won't even speculate what "that" is...probably something very...
3516
David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
Of the numerous roots containing vocalized sonorants (L,M,N,R) in the Qenya lexicon, only a few have progeny visible in Quenya. Those which I have been able...
3517
David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... Also uruite "fiery" (Etym), morimaite "black-handed" (LotR); and in Sindarin maed (<*magiti, *mahiti), nîd (<*neiti), thenid (<*staniti), and (as Didier...
3518
David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
Didier Willis wrote ... This is all very problematic, given that other _late_ writings preserve Sindarin _enedh_ which must be from ENED and cannot be from...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:25 pm
... It is not "to please" but rather "please" i.e. "S'il vous plaît". iqin is Qenya for "I ask", iqista is "a request". ... qilde (Qenya, not Goldogrin) was...
3520
setantaslain@...
Oct 10, 2000 12:20 am
In a message dated 10/9/00 6:26:39 AM, dsalo@... writes: << > I had been searching for a word 'pleasant' in Quenya. I've heard ... It is not "to...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 10, 2000 12:21 am
... You are right, in fact I realized it after a day and wrote it privately to the inquirer. "Erciltaino" would associate rather a kind of schizofreny or...
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Lukas Novak
profesorr@...
Oct 10, 2000 12:21 am
... They DO form aorist - but since the aurist is the bare strem and the stem of these verbs ens on an a, the a is retained in the inflexion and the forms...
