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...
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Dan Yetman
ffvi_locke_cole
Dec 8, 2011 3:58 pm
Would it not make more sense, Helge, to utilise the Finnish base of 'kadhetia' as a starting point, rather than that of Greek? After all, Quenya was based in...
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winterhavik
Dec 9, 2011 2:23 pm
Hi Helge, From your post it looks like we shall soon receive another of your trademark Christmas gifts in Quenya! Great! I think that your circumlocution...
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meglimorco
Dec 11, 2011 5:17 pm
At least there is _quendir_, plural of _quendi_ 'Elvish woman' (MR, p.229). <> Björn...
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Cara Loup
caraloup
Dec 11, 2011 5:17 pm
... That's all I've managed to find, too. Thanks for your help! Cara...
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jacoishjr
Dec 11, 2011 5:17 pm
I hope I am not too late... Looking in my NIV bible the note says that alabaster of biblical times was actually marble, for which we have a Qenya word _alas_...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 11, 2011 5:18 pm
... tongues, I tend to believe that it would be disrespectful – and foolish – to reject it and settle for a word that has no claim whatsoever to be ...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Dec 12, 2011 2:39 pm
... There are attested examples that I am aware of, though old ones. For instance, _Valir_ (pl. of _Vali_ "female Vala") is attested in PE 12, p. 40. _Ainir_...
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BPJ
melroch
Dec 12, 2011 9:44 pm
... Since __PER-__ in The Etymologies is followed (at least when edited with usual alphabetization) by __Per[2]-, PERES-__ 'affect' we may conclude that: 1)...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Dec 12, 2011 9:44 pm
... Interesting remark, but maybe slightly off the point. As a matter of fact, the Old French word _envie_ is taken to mean "feeling of hateful jealousy toward...
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Cara Loup
caraloup
Dec 14, 2011 2:11 pm
Björn and Damien, thank you for pointing out these examples to me, that's extremely helpful! Cara Posted by: "meglimorco" fromen@... meglimorco ... ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 24, 2011 2:48 pm
Well, folks, X-mas is upon us, as often happens in late December. I have pretty much revealed what I was working on, and here it is: The Neo-Quenya Gospel of...
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Menelion Elensule
menelion@...
Dec 25, 2011 2:37 am
Vande omentaina, heru Fauskanger (well, I dare to call you a master since you are a master of Arda languages! ;-). It's my first letter here, so please bear...
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Yvonne Van Brimmer
hobbitwife
Dec 25, 2011 2:37 am
Thank you so much for the Gospel of Mark document. Our Bible study group is in this Gospel & this should prove interesting to many. Have a blessed holiday! ...
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winterhavik
Dec 30, 2011 1:54 pm
Hello, here are the first two stanzas of this moving poem. Comments to improve the phrasing are most welcome! Especially the word for 'charge'. The Charge Of...
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Richard
galadhorn
Dec 30, 2011 1:54 pm
Dear Elflingers, Do you remember the Gwaith-i-Phethdain website? :-) It's news and research part still exists, and now its main interest area is all what is...
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Damien
elendil.voronda
Jan 5, 2012 12:13 pm
Happy new year to you all! David, Petri, sorry I didn't have the opportunity to answer any earlier. ... Looking at _the Etymologies_, I noted the following...
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Celebrian
gilgaladiell
Jan 9, 2012 3:08 pm
Most languages have their own forms of cussing. Obviously, Tolkien wouldn't have done much with that. I was just curious on how that would work, especially...
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Roman
rausch_roman
Jan 9, 2012 3:09 pm
In the spirit of Chistmas and the New Year, or at least the wave of updates which seems to go through the websites right now, I'd like to announce a major...
I Alaco i Hosseva Ulunga by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Half a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward,...
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mikkih73
Jan 23, 2012 10:20 pm
Hello! I too would like to thank you for making this course. I came across it years ago and enjoyed it then and have enjoyed going back through this revised...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jan 25, 2012 2:04 pm
**> I Alaco i Hosseva Ulunga Some interesting features here! ... Indeed; I would rather use the later word _raumo_ from Tolkien's latest revision of the poem...
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winterhavik
Jan 30, 2012 2:17 pm
Thanks, Helge for your comments. I hadn't realized that raumo was the later word for storm. Too bad it leaves out the alliteration, but I prefer to use the...
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fra.veneziano
Feb 21, 2012 11:01 pm
A question regarding the use of the diacritics in the general mode for the tengwar: I've read that the General Use permits the vowels to be placed above either...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 5, 2012 8:27 pm
I have been trying to churn out some more Neo-Quenya New Testament material, and I have a vague ambition of completing the non-Pauline letters this spring. In...
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MÃ¥ns
mansbjorkman
Mar 5, 2012 8:28 pm
... That depends somewhat on which samples you would say are written in the General Use. On Amanye Tenceli I apply a rather wide definition of the mode, but in...
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fra.veneziano
Mar 9, 2012 7:27 pm
Thank you very much for your answer. I've been mainly interested in Quenya for now, but recently I was toying with some modes for Italian. I made up several,...
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winterhavik
Mar 12, 2012 2:11 pm
Hello Helge, An interesting idea. I couldn't comment on the sound changes from qenya, not having studied it that area at all. However, I do think that...
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Ceilidh Chaos
highprincess...
Mar 17, 2012 11:50 pm
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Thus passes the Glory of the world I think in Quenya it would be Sin lenweta alcar Ilu I am planning to get a tattoo and I want it to...
