The CVCV root explains Feanor's statement that "our fathers... in building words took the vowels and parted them with the consonants as walls" (VT39:10) We...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 2, 2009 3:45 pm
Actually, at least in the case of greek, many of the VV combinations were due to the loss of w, h, or s. There was a letter (digamma) for the bilabial, which...
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elucubrator
Nov 3, 2009 2:11 pm
Thanks for alerting me to ERK-, and thanks for your other citations. Add to the items you cited _ercasse_ 'holly', the shrub with the prickly dark green...
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elucubrator
Nov 3, 2009 2:11 pm
You have nicely pointed out how hiatus in Greek may be precipitated by sound changes: loss of digamma, intervocalic sigma, spiritus asper. I thought you were...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 4, 2009 3:01 pm
Some of the dipthongs do appear to have originated in grammar (the plural of Lindį being Lindįi, for instance). Some forms in Quena do point to PE dipthongs...
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ghicks02
Nov 4, 2009 3:01 pm
According to _Vinyar Tengwar_ 49:13, a late text by JRRT suggested that the negative particle _laa_ could be inflected for tense when the principal verb was...
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CLH harding
clh8518
Nov 5, 2009 9:23 pm
I was looking through my word lists for the Sindarin word for "like, as". David Salo's list only gives 'sui', but Fauskanger's gives 'sui' "like, as" and 'be'...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 5, 2009 9:23 pm
It should be noted that the frequent combinations _ea_ and _oa_ in Quenya typically arise from older VCV structures: lawa > loa "year" cawa > coa "house" faya...
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yami_akizuki
Nov 5, 2009 9:24 pm
Hello!! This is the first time I post here, so: hello!! ^_^/ I try to keep with every message you post. Ok, here is my problem. My name is Isabel (spanish form...
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Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon@...
Nov 5, 2009 9:26 pm
Much of like why in Cyrillic you have signs for B and V. One was B in greek, but became V, and the other when Cyril/Methodius designed Cyrillic and Old Church...
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Jonathan Trites
tritesnikov@...
Nov 5, 2009 10:32 pm
I think you have the tengwar generator set to something that is not Quenya, like Sindarin or English. The direction of reading the vowel-on-top looks backwards...
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iiipitaka
Nov 5, 2009 10:35 pm
... No, my list has "be" as well. However it should be noted that "be" is abstracted from "ben" in the phrase "ben genediad" -- meaning "in/according to the...
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kathy
redhairedrag...
Nov 6, 2009 11:08 pm
Hello, I apologize for asking for this "one-off" bit of help but I've been working on translating a phrase into Quenya, I *believe* I may have it, and I just...
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indilielxx
Nov 9, 2009 12:08 am
First of all I'd like to say hello to everyone as this is my first post on this website I've recently been reading Wuthering Heights for A Level and had a go...
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maike
maikedulk
Nov 11, 2009 12:36 am
Suilad, a couple of things that I see - though they could possibly be done on other ways as well: "in the woods" - I would translate "woods" as singular...
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aelindis
Nov 13, 2009 3:08 pm
Hello Indiliel, I take it that you may rather want opinions on the potential "correctness" of your actual translation, as a start. ... The only really...
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cgilson75
Nov 13, 2009 3:13 pm
Parma Eldalamberon 18 Tengwesta Qenderinwa and Pre-FĆ«anorian Alphabets, Part 2 By J. R. R. TOLKIEN http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma18.html ...
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indilielxx
Nov 18, 2009 6:13 am
I don't know if I'm posting this in the right place, but thank you both for your comments and for your help, they have been very enlightening :)...
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faelach69
Nov 18, 2009 6:13 am
In my recent musings on the Adunaic tongue, something caught my eye that had never occured to me before. This may have been noticed and/or brought up by others...
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faelach69
Nov 18, 2009 6:13 am
... May I ask what word list this was? Thanks, Bj...
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yami_akizuki
Nov 18, 2009 6:13 am
Thank you very much! I will try with other generator or change the option but if you say that the one I wrote myself looks good, then I will keep that one....
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faelach69
Nov 18, 2009 6:15 am
Hello All, Some time ago I made available upon request an Adunaic wordlist that incorporated all the declensions, inflections, etc. of all known words. I have...
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ghicks02
Nov 21, 2009 3:02 am
Dear Quenyists, I was hoping to elicit some comments on the use of the negative elements _laa_ and _um-_ with elision of the main verb, but it's been two weeks...
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claire.richards40
claire.richa...
Nov 22, 2009 7:01 am
There is an event planned for August 2010 called "Festival in the Shire - A celebration of all things Tolkien inspired". It has merchandise for sale on the...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Nov 23, 2009 4:08 am
... Admittedly, I have not been smart enough to figure out just what your question was before your second mail, so I did not answer. I guess I now understand a...
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ll_1921
Nov 27, 2009 1:58 pm
I've got a suggestion in Quenya (although I'm not sure how acceptable it is): "Merendė i ardassė - asar ilyė nation mihwestainė Tolkieno" First of all,...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 27, 2009 1:59 pm
... phrase I'm looking to translate into Quenya is "Of course I speak Quenya. Doesn't everybody?" _É quetin Quenya. Ilquen laia?_ should express something...
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tuilinde42
Nov 27, 2009 1:59 pm
Hi, Claire, I've known about the Festival for some time, but not looked at the website. I've now done so, and could see no Elvish in the Logo - are you sure...
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faelach69
Nov 27, 2009 1:59 pm
Hey All! It's been a bit since I've done any poetry in Quenya (or any Tolkienian language, for that matter), so I decided to compose a text. Here is the result...
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ghicks02
Nov 27, 2009 2:05 pm
Thorsten, thanks for your reply. Feel free to self-deprecate, but I suspect that at least part of the problem was that I wasn't smart enough to phrase my...
