... The root LOK was glossed "bend, loop" in both SA and on PE17/160, though in the Etymologies it was glossed "great serpent, dragon". In one place (PE17/160)...
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winterhavik
Oct 11, 2012 12:52 pm
Since the latin serpens was borrowed from Greek herpton with sound changes how about a similar sounding word built around the various Quenya words for fingers...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 13, 2012 10:42 pm
Thanks for feedback regarding the root LOK. ... though in the Etymologies it was glossed "great serpent, dragon". In one place (PE17/160) its derivative Q....
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Palatinus
elfiness
Oct 13, 2012 10:42 pm
Hi there, good work :) I am sorry that I can't read all your details and verify them, someone else perhaps could. For starters I would say that the canonical...
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winterhavik
Oct 14, 2012 7:03 pm
One possibility to avoid confusion with dragon is to use the word nosse or nostale with it. The Neo-quenya wordlist at Wikia uses these two terms as 'genus'...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 17, 2012 3:22 am
... nosse or nostale with it. The Neo-quenya wordlist at Wikia uses these two terms as 'genus' and 'species'. So there is already some neo-quenya community...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Oct 17, 2012 1:18 pm
Hello Helge, HKF> Another problem is how to render the word "letter" (rather relevant when HKF> I am trying to translate New Testament letters). _Tengwa_ I...
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bondarenko.tatjana
bondarenko.t...
Oct 19, 2012 9:30 pm
Hello again! I'm writing so soon as there is an idea plaguing my thoughts that haven't given me peace for a couple of days, so I thought that discussing it...
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iiipitaka
Oct 19, 2012 10:30 pm
... This is basically right, though there are a number of ways in which this could be treated as a matter of analysis (which is slightly different from what...
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iiipitaka
Oct 19, 2012 10:56 pm
... I have to say that you've done an extremely impressive job. ... I don't know if there's a "proper" periodization or not. I only know what I used: Old...
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traversetravis
Oct 21, 2012 12:54 pm
Hi Elfling Community, I'm making a glossary and phrase-book for the Mannish languages spoken at the time of Bilbo and Frodo: ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 23, 2012 2:05 pm
tatjana" <bondarenko.tatjana@...> wrote regarding Quenya influence on ... "R (and does that mean that the attested verb CUINAR ("they live") would have been...
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Algoroth Draconis
algoroth_dra...
Oct 24, 2012 12:28 pm
I started playing Lord of the Rings Online about 2 years ago and have made 3 elven characters. I came up with names for them that sounded to me as if they...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Oct 27, 2012 1:13 am
Many real-world names are basically meaningless, chosen simply because they "sound nice". Others once had some meaning, but have drifted so far phonetically...
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Palatinus
elfiness
Oct 27, 2012 1:13 am
I don't know if this helps, but Tolkien mentions that some Gondorian names are Quenya-Sindarin compounds, and Boromir is such an example. However those were...
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Måns
mansbjorkman
Oct 28, 2012 12:59 pm
... Q. _mar_, _mard-_ seems to have the primary meaning 'home, dwelling', or even 'hall'. The S. cognate is _bar_, as in _Baravorn_ 'Hamfast', "Stay-at-home"....
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Marcus Cupps
algoroth_dra...
Oct 29, 2012 3:07 pm
Ok so it seems the general consensus is that there are really no translations for these names. It's a shame but I figured that it was the most likely out...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 31, 2012 3:20 am
... translations for these names. It's a shame but I figured that it was the most likely out come. Thank you all for looking at this. I looked at them as...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Oct 31, 2012 3:21 am
I am tinkering with a draft for Hebrews in my Neo-Quenya New Testament -- it would be a major addition, the third longest letter. Incidentally, I agree with...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 1, 2012 12:39 am
... The OED says: < Latin hyssōpus, hyssōpum, < Greek ὕσσωπος, ὕσσωπον, apparently an eastern word, being represented in Hebrew by ēzōb. --...
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TF
percival64
Nov 1, 2012 12:39 am
Hello Helge, anchor - how about _ampa_ or _atsa_ "hook", possibly as a compound *kiryampa? Tamas Ferencz ________________________________ From: Helge K....
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ramaroreo
Nov 1, 2012 12:39 am
Apparently hyssop from "ezob/ezov" refers to any of a number of herbs, like Origan, marjoram and others. Sometimes it is refered to as "holy herb" because it...
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Damien
elendil_voronda
Nov 1, 2012 12:39 am
Hello Helge, ... My own dictionary gives the following cognate words: Hebr. _'ezob_, Akkadian _zupu_, Syriac _zupha_, Aramaic _zufa_. But no inkling as...
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ramaroreo
Nov 1, 2012 12:40 am
Under "anchor" C.D. Buck states : "The majority of the words for "anchor" are borrowed through the Latin from the Greek word, which itself is based on the...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Nov 2, 2012 1:30 am
Hello, D> Given it's a non-Indo-European, non-Finno-Ougric word, I'd use a D> phonetic adaptation in Quenya rather than aim for a translation. It might be...
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Luká Novák
lukas.novak@...
Nov 2, 2012 1:30 am
... That would suggest to me that device used by pirates to "hook" the victim ship so that it could not escape... :-) Lukas...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 2, 2012 1:31 am
Middle English ysope, from Old English ȳsōpe, from Latin hȳsōpum, hyssōpus, from Greek hussōpos, probably of Semitic origin; akin to Aramaic 'ezobā. Is...
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TF
percival64
Nov 2, 2012 7:18 pm
Ah yes, but that would be *ehtampa for me:) Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages - http://aglardh.middangeard.org.uk ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 3, 2012 3:56 am
Thanks for valuable suggestioins, everybody. As for _hyssop_, I find it a little problematic that it has a final consonant not allowed in Quenya, so a simple...
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Julian Bradfield
jcbradfield
Nov 3, 2012 12:30 pm
... Why is this problematic? Many languages that don't permit final consonants borrow from English. Nowadays they may just ignore the native phonotactics, but...
