What is the evidence that [r] (alveolar trill) > [r\] (alveolar approximant)? That's a fairly unusual phonetic change to occur without outside influence,...
... Sorry, but on my screen your phonetic symbol turns up as "E with acute accent + raised 1". Most characters outside of the ASCII range seem to get mangled,...
On PE19:69-70, Tolkien describes primitive intervocalic *[d] becoming a "weak untrilled r" distinct from the original (trilled) *[r]. From there, it merged...
That's my experience as well. I saw Julian's original IPA symbol fine, but it got mangled in the reply from Måns. It seems like characters in the Latin-1...
... I suppose you're reading it on the web site, rather than by email? In that case, it appears you need to select the character encoding your browser uses...
I do apologise for my interjection, but we must be absolutely as precise as possible when discussing phonetics, since such changes can be altered by the most...
... Unicode gets mangled most of the time even if you read by email. I guess it's pretty much sheer luck if the sender's mailer succeeds to send, and the...
... You are quite right on all counts. I went back and checked your original message with the character set to UTF-8, and now it looked just fine. I feel...
... I’m also seeing the same as Måns does, and have the same general experience with the yahoogroup lists. ... I don’t think Måns necessarily does, I do...
... I am afraid there is an attested word for "alabaster", so adaptation should be ruled out in this case, I believe. Cf. Gnomish Lexicon, p. 24: "_Bringlast_...
No worries. It is very likely that I *am* misinterpreting the symbols, since my own knowledge of phonetics is rather weak. For example, I didn't know about...
... Unfortunately Gnomish is not helpful in this case. The second element is Goldogrin glast (Qenya alas(t-)) "marble". That would point to a root GhALAS >...
I am not sure if makes any difference, but Spanish has maintained both a flapped (ere) and a trilled (erre) r. I can't see anything against having a third...
... I have to wonder why you feel this. Many of us speak a language in which /r/ is variably realized as a trill, tap or approximant, depending on dialect,...
... That applies to me: my L1 moreover distinguishes between single and geminate consonants (all consonants except /h j v\/ can be either short or long), and...
A good day to everyone! I have been looking into the Quenya declension system beyond the paradigms given in the Plotz Letter, and while there are many...
Hi! I'm brand new to this group, and I have a question. I've been doing some fundamental research into Quenya and want to properly translate the term 'Lord of...
... Yahoo!Groups hasn't aged very well. Or rather, it hasn't aged at all. It isn't a very good place to base a linguistic discussion forum. It's odd that this...
... I've had a long look at The Etymologies -- several long looks. And Tolkien took some care to keep his Primitive Quendian roots distinct in form and...
Your confusion is understandable. Both _cáleo_ and _cáleva_ have the same English translation: "of light". Briefly, -va is the "possessive/adjectival" case....
So far as I know, there aren't any examples in the published materials. There are only a handful of attested Quenya nouns ending in -i, mostly feminine nouns...
... In my case because editing in any form but plain text is downright painful, because I have a motor disability and want to use the mouse as little as...
... Hear, hear! ... Huzza! ... More, more! ... TolkLang is still working, and its archives will remain accessible (and searchable) as long as I'm around (and...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 8, 2011 6:50 am
Inching my way through the Gospel of Mark I encountered a new problematic word: "Envy." Sure enough, we have Quenya words for greed and desire, but envy isn't ...
... The Greek root PHTHON is not further analysable. It may originally have meant something like 'diminishing' or 'making small'. It doesn't seem like...
Just a couple of notes here. First, the modern usage of 'envy' didn't coming into use until about the middle of the 1700s. Before that, it meant 'malice', or...
