Well, _cuil_ I think would remain as it is. I'm not sure where the _-in_ at the end comes from. "Our lives" would then be _cuil vîn_ with lenition of the...
Hey all, I was wondering how to say "our lives" in Sindarin and this is what I came up with : cuilin min. I wasn't sure if this was right, so if anyone could...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 18, 2008 1:19 pm
... HoME for this Quenya form. I checked most of the pages indexed under the name of Elrond in all 12 volumes, but have found nothing more than the note in...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 18, 2008 1:19 pm
... being necessary to mention the House of the Heavenly Arch and Egalmoth, do you think it is permissible to come to the conclusion that the said arch is in...
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Laura
violaceous_p...
Dec 18, 2008 1:18 pm
Suilad! First post with the Elflings, although I have been reading the threads and studying Sindarin in my free time. I am not certain that I fully...
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ramaroreo
Dec 15, 2008 1:17 pm
... 367). ... By coincidence, I have been looking a few days ago for evidence in HoME for this Quenya form. I checked most of the pages indexed under the name...
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Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42
Dec 13, 2008 12:57 pm
Tyler, many thanks for your note of appreciation. If you have, or can lay your hands on a copy of _ The Road Goes Ever On_, you will find it most interesting...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 12, 2008 12:22 am
I have finally made myself busy with a long-overdue wordlist update, adding to Quenyanna the hundreds of new words that appeared in Parma 17. Petri Tikka's...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Dec 12, 2008 12:22 am
Susan, Thanks for posting your poem to the list, I enjoyed it greatly. It is also helping me figure out Quenya syntax and phrasing better. We all appreciate ...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Dec 12, 2008 12:21 am
Alright. So what I've gathered so far is that it's pretty much personal preference when using idioms like this to construct phrases. That's good to know....
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tuilinde@...
tuilinde42
Dec 12, 2008 12:21 am
Friends, Greetings! I'm running into problems with what is becoming an epic poem on Gondolin. There is, as far as I can discover no Quenya word for _arch_. It...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Dec 10, 2008 7:49 pm
... See message 35153. I mistook _maita_ to mean "hunger". /BP...
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Luiz
ltgramos
Dec 9, 2008 12:13 pm
Hello all, Following the language-to-language comparative mode used thus far, unless an impediment to any of the choices presented here is attested or derived,...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Dec 8, 2008 2:40 pm
As so often I befuddled my own meaning on first writing, and what's more I misunderstood the input and didn't have the wordlists handy to check. My meaning was...
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ramaroreo
Dec 8, 2008 2:02 pm
... Since we do not seem to have any nouns for "hunger" or "thirst" - at least I could not find any - some construction with the adjective "maita" looks like...
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Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42
Dec 8, 2008 2:01 pm
Greetings! For your perusal, here is the first part of a poem by a fictional Tuilinde of Dol Amroth. The English -version- has appeared in Amon Hen. The...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Dec 8, 2008 2:01 pm
... I am a bit puzzled - how do you know the correct Quenya way to express this is 'have' and the noun 'hunger'? Is this attested anywhere? Personally, I would...
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Susan Frances Edwards
tuilinde42
Dec 8, 2008 2:01 pm
Greetings! I'm working on a new poem in Quenya about Gondolin, in Turgon's voice, and have a query about the various Sindarin place names. I know that these...
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Tyler Kocheran
rfkrockteekers
Dec 8, 2008 2:01 pm
Thanks so much for getting back to me! It's a "good to know" thing in order to construct Quenya sentences properly, especially since we are more interested...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
melroch
Dec 6, 2008 6:49 am
... It's rather the case that the idiom is different in Quenya and English: while the correct English way to express that one is in a state of famish is with...
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rfkrockteekers
Dec 6, 2008 3:14 am
I meant _Haryanyë maita_ ("I have hunger"), not _Harnanyë maita_ ("I wound hunger"!). So I'm assuming that the correct way to express the idea that "I am...
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David
wigdawei
Dec 6, 2008 3:14 am
I found iFlipr to be a great idea for studying language, but I am wondering if anyone has found an application that does translation and/or transcription?...
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Tyler Kocheran
nottakenlogi...
Dec 3, 2008 3:44 am
Hello All! My wife and I recently took up learning Quenya as our second language, and we're thrilled to be learning it. I do have a question about how some ...
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enrombel
Dec 3, 2008 3:44 am
Oops, I was wrong! No known Tengwar font has ligatures. It should be noted that it were very difficult to introduce them, since the font should be "monospaced"...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansbjorkman
Nov 30, 2008 1:43 pm
... Note too that a final vowel may be elided if the next word begins in a vowel, *regardless which one*. A prominent example is _Elen síla lúmenn'...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansbjorkman
Nov 30, 2008 1:43 pm
... No, you can leave out the vowel in the Tengwar transcription as well. The apostrophe is usually disregarded too. /Måns...
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Stephen Cooper
elearen@...
Nov 30, 2008 1:43 pm
Yes you right the original vowel. Omissions are only in the spoken text. From: elfling@yahoogroups.com [mailto:elfling@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of narfinde ...
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narfinde
Nov 29, 2008 11:52 pm
Ok, i ran into an interesting dilemma(please feel free to put the emphAsis on the wrong sylAble... I love that joke).Alright... when writing a translation we...
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ramaroreo
Nov 29, 2008 11:52 pm
... "haruni" - grandmother and "haru" grandfather are from the Qenyaqetsa QL:39. Órerámar...
