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...
... 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
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Mar 17, 2012 11:50 pm
EW wrote, regarding my theory that QL forms like qeletya- 'rot', pa.t. qeleksine (QL:76) are paralleled by such a latter-day Quenya verb as _lelya-_ "attract",...
Here are my suggestions. ... I agree on sin and alcar. For "pass" I would use auta as in _auta i lóme_ "the night is passing" (Silmarillion). The verb lenweta...
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Menelion Elensuule
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Mar 24, 2012 4:58 am
Hi, CC> Sic Transit Gloria Mundi CC> Thus passes the Glory of the world CC> I think in Quenya it would be Sin lenweta alcar Ilu Maybe the scholars will correct...
Hello, I'd put it as Síve vanya alcar Ambareva. _vanya_ could be replaced by _auta_; similarly, _Ilúva_ could stand for _Ambareva_. Thomas Ferencz Let's...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
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Mar 24, 2012 4:59 am
... I would add a genitive ending to _ilu_ (i.e. _Iluo_), otherwise it could work. I would tend to use other words, though: _Sie auta ambaro alcar_, probably...
... Perhaps _léline_ can be construed as a strong past tense < *_lely-ne_ with change of interconsonantal -y- to syllabic short -i- (cf. PE 19, p.100). The...
... Maybe _Balj(a)nôrê_ 'Valian folk' > _Valinóre_ (PE17:43) is relevant here: If the vowel in CjaC drops for some reason, the result is apparently CiC, so...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Mar 29, 2012 1:28 pm
I am trying to produce a Neo-Quenya version of a string of New Testament letters, and I have drafted a substantial amount of text, but here an there I...
Perhaps we can go back to actual Indo-European roots (IE). Orginally *mosgo- it mean brain, not marrow. Perhaps from anything inside of a bone. Given that, I...
1. "Serious" (grave, not joking, etc.) Well, there's always _lumna_. Serious and grave all go back to 'heavy' so by extension _lunga_ is a possibility. The QL...
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LukᚠNovák
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Apr 2, 2012 2:52 pm
... If they are the Mosaic tablets, why not speak just of "ondor"? Lukas...
... Somehow this doesn't seem credible to me as a *compound*. I mean there *would* probably be a simple word for 'marrow', and _pirya axo(ron)(*)_ *as a...
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Menelion Elensuule
menelion@...
Apr 2, 2012 11:49 pm
Hello, ... LN> If they are the Mosaic tablets, why not speak just LN> of "ondor"? Just stones? Then it wouldn't be meaningful enough. We don't say "fruits"...
... This is attested in Sindarin as _úlal_ 'not laughing, serious' (PE18:144). In Quenya it might be _*úlalya_. ... That may not be far-fetched at all,...
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Menelion Elensuule
menelion@...
Apr 4, 2012 6:17 pm
Hello, R> _*Palma_ was actually my reconstruction for 'table', considering R> QL _palukta_ and the fact that PAL- survives into the Etymologies R> with a...
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Menelion Elensuule
menelion@...
Apr 10, 2012 2:02 am
Hello everyone, In Helge's translation of the Johannine corpus we see the form "Hlassen". For example, John 8:26: 26 Samin rimbe natali quetien ar namien pa...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Apr 15, 2012 1:27 pm
Menelion Elensuule questions my use of _hlasse_ as the past tense of _hlar-_ "hear". This is actually based on information that has appeared relatively ...
I was playing around with what uninflected Quenya might look like in comparison to inflected while translating the book of Jonah (incidentally the book...
Hello, Thanks a lot for your answer! Actually, concerning _ns_ in our name, I wrote about it: when we took it, we had no idea neither about th>s nor about...
Mellyn nin ~ It's been a while since I posted here, and longer since I made my brief foray into the study of Sindarin. My family recently purchased a home near...
... Could it be PE 19:99? "In Quenya - - - _ns_, from any nasal + _s_, was then in the oldest strata unvoiced to _ss_. ... were more frequent in TQ [Spoken...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Apr 21, 2012 2:31 am
Thanks for help to find this quote in PE19:99: "In Quenya - - - _ns_, from any nasal + _s_, was then in the oldest strata unvoiced to _ss_. ... were more...
