This kind of "verbal slippage" is not unknown. The word 'witness' itself is formed of 'wit-' (as in witty, witless, &c -- to know) plus a suffix. It dates from...
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merp@...
morganmartin...
Jan 8, 2011 9:25 pm
Under the root MIR- in the Etymologies appears "Q, ON _mÃre_" (p 373) . A correction to this entry was added in VT46: "[after] Q, ON _mÃre_ [insert] ON...
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iiipitaka
Jan 8, 2011 9:33 pm
... _mÃre_ ... later ... No, I don't think so. The description of the original text is somewhat opaque, but it sounds like it means that "Q m're, N m"r...
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Tiago
tiagosmc
Jan 11, 2011 3:38 pm
Who am I to be posting here? Well, let me just hope there is space for a beginner in this forum. I have read Fauskanger's Quenya Course a bit more than a year...
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hhperala
Jan 11, 2011 3:38 pm
Hi all, I've been trying to understand some basic sound changes in the history of Sindarin, just for fun. Most recently, I tried to compile some rules for the...
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iiipitaka
Jan 11, 2011 4:49 pm
... of Sindarin, just for fun. Most recently, I tried to compile some rules for the development of original *â and *au using Tolkien's explicit ...
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iiipitaka
Jan 11, 2011 5:12 pm
... You're a member of Elfling. Congratulations! ... I own this list, and I do not recognize any difference between 'experts' and 'beginners'. If anybody on...
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Tiago
tiagosmc
Jan 12, 2011 2:57 pm
Thanks for the answer, it is very clarifying and highly technical, as it should be. So, as deliberate as this change was, I suppose the elves cared much more...
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hhperala
Jan 13, 2011 1:43 pm
... When _O:_ became _au_ or _o_, were words still stressed as in the protolanguage? ... Does the etymology _chadhO:d_ > _chadhaud_ > _hadhod_ (WJ:388) fit...
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iiipitaka
Jan 13, 2011 5:46 pm
... Well, they couldn't be exactly, since instances of apocope and syncope alter the syllabic structure of the language. Sindarin in general preserves...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 14, 2011 4:07 pm
... that (a) I connect it with the Quenya words r‡v` "roaring noise" and raumo "noise of a storm" (The Monsters and the Critics, p. 223); the former could be...
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LUCAS ANNEAR
lannear
Jan 15, 2011 11:58 am
Somewhat of a side note, and many people (Helge, almost definitely) will be aware of this, but there is a town in Norway called "Røros". I've always thought...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Jan 23, 2011 12:20 pm
http://your-sindarin-textbook.realelvish.net I'm especially looking for scrutiny on the chapters about syntax, pronouns, and verbs. Thank-you in advance for...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 25, 2011 3:03 am
I just discovered a pronunciation guide for well-known Finnish names; you just click on a name and hear it pronounced: http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/7.htm ...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jan 25, 2011 1:27 pm
Quenya, lost ancestor to Finno-Ugraic languages written with something like What Sanskrit it written in? Devanagari Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 25, 2011 1:29 pm
Just a couple of items. I am living in Finland now, in Savonlinna, so I get some local dialect (Savo) along with my standard Finnish news and dubbed movies. I...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Jan 25, 2011 1:29 pm
... There's no glottal stop involved, nor any pause following. The stop is quite literally lengthened, by lengthening the occlusion phase when the vocal tract...
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iiipitaka
Jan 25, 2011 1:56 pm
... My father, who is from Pohjanmaa, seems to pronounce the geminates with a *preceding* glottal stop; e.g. niitty (meadow) is something like [ni:?ty]. I've...
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iiipitaka
Jan 25, 2011 1:56 pm
... Early British voiceless geminates became fricatives in the descended Brythonic languages (Welsh, Cornish, Breton): pp > f, tt > th (θ), kk > ch (x);...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Jan 26, 2011 1:54 am
... It's complicated by the fact that Finnish appears to use various forms of non-phonological glottalization for higher-level interaction - there are a couple...
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Mike Adams
abrigon@...
Jan 26, 2011 1:37 pm
Try speaking Siberian Yupik. A lot of glottle stops and ... Mike Alaska Eeyampsatanahahliq Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 26, 2011 1:38 pm
As I remember (and I could be wrong here) Icelandic geminates (CC) -> hC (example: dottir is pronounced dohtir, with the h being sounded). Can anyone tell me? ...
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LUCAS ANNEAR
lannear
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
Icelandic voiceless geminates are indeed pre-aspirated. And oftentimes it's misleading, as in the case of "dottir", where historically it actually _did_ have...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
Ah, yes. A complete set of uvulars (surd, sonant, nasal (both surd and sonant), sonant aspirant, surd aspirant) as well as the normal set of velar 'k' type...
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Luká Novák
lukas.novak@...
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
... Well, in "Eyafjallajökull" "ll" is pronounced /tl/, I heard... Lukas...
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hhperala
Jan 27, 2011 3:07 am
... Maybe not after _e_, but something like that is supposed to happen between _i_ or _y_ and a consonant. At least one description of Finnish phonology [1]...
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ahannahim
Jan 28, 2011 3:56 am
The Quenya change of _kk_ to _kh_ might well have happened by way of affrication. A fairly well known similar change was the Old High German change of _kk_ to...
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Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon@...
Jan 29, 2011 6:57 am
Had a couple friends who were from the Island (St. Lawrence) and spoke the language. Its interesting how some of their English came out as well.. Intresting...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 31, 2011 1:51 pm
In the same digest that contained my own initial message to the "Finish Fun" thread, I also got the announcement below, which should not be overlooked as we...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Jan 31, 2011 1:52 pm
I'm not very well-versed in the latest developments in Quenya, so I need a little help with this translation. This is the poem that was read in place of...
