How about the attested _tampa_ 'stopper' (TAP-)? The other possibility is to combine _latta_ 'strap' (LATH-) with one of the nouns meaning 'mouth'. Tamas ...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Nov 22, 2012 3:11 pm
Sindarin for "stirrup" is talraph (lenited in Udalraph "stirrupless", UT:313). The first element is clearly tâl "foot". The second has been conjectured to be...
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Bob
rfhancock48
Nov 22, 2012 3:59 am
Thank you Mans. I was confusing the tengwar usages between the Beleriand and Gondor modes. However, I still don't understand why a nasal bar would be used with...
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dreamingfifi
elvenswordsmith
Nov 22, 2012 3:59 am
I'm still working on Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, and came upon a difficult line: "The gemmy bridle glittered free" And I can find no way to reconstruct...
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MÃ¥ns
mansbjorkman
Nov 20, 2012 12:53 pm
Judging by the third copy of the King's Letter, where _i Varanduiniant_ has an i-tehta above <ampa> for _i V..._, the definite article might in such cases be...
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TF
percival64
Nov 19, 2012 2:12 pm
Very tentative: *carnitakse "redden oneself" *roinatakse similar meaning; cf. _envinyata-_ "make new again" or figuratively, _cendeleya urunye_ "his face...
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Andrew Higgins
asthiggins@...
Nov 18, 2012 2:33 pm
Greetings All Today's Sunday Times here in the UK has a special Hobbit film magazine coverage which online includes several videos. One by one of The Hobbit...
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tavarnarmo
Nov 18, 2012 2:32 pm
I'm sorry my post wasn't correct. I need a verb, not an adjective....
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Nov 17, 2012 6:14 pm
The name S. Caranthir, Q. Carnistir means "Red Face" (PM:353). Perhaps an adjectival form of this would work, maybe *carnistira "red-faced"?...
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tavarnarmo
Nov 17, 2012 2:07 pm
First, hi to you all :) I'm new member of group, hovever I was anonymously reading for a lnog long time. Sorry for my rather bad english. My friend ask me to...
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Bob
rfhancock48
Nov 17, 2012 2:06 pm
Re my previous message Sorry, I should have said the Gondorian consonantal mode, not Beleriand. I was looking at the wrong page of the article. As is probably...
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Bob
rfhancock48
Nov 16, 2012 1:49 pm
Hello all I have a question regarding writing Sindarin in tengwar in the mode of Beleriand, that is with the vowels indicated by tehta. When writing " in +...
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Paul Strack
pfstrack
Nov 15, 2012 5:23 am
Taliska is one of the languages appearing in the first article, Comparative Tables, along with the major languages of the Etymologies and West, North and East...
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Jay Lawson
jay.lawson@...
Nov 15, 2012 5:05 am
I saw that Parma Eldalamberon #19 has information about Talika's phonology. How much is there? To what extent could we find or work out a table of phonemes?...
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Kate Ebneter
ebneterk
Nov 14, 2012 2:19 am
... Hi, David, Thanks for the quick response! What I meant by "unattested" is that Tolkien himself had "asterisk words" in his writings, e.g., in the...
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iiipitaka
Nov 12, 2012 4:38 pm
... Naturally, I have a list -- several, actually -- but a lot depends on what you mean by "not attested". For instance, the gerund _aderthad_ "reuniting" is...
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Lukáš Novák
lukas.novak@...
Nov 12, 2012 4:37 pm
Why not use just the "genuine-Tolkien" "litse" for both ash and sand in Quenya as well? Or assume that Tolkien changed the meaning of both words? Lukas...
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Kate Ebneter
ebneterk
Nov 12, 2012 4:12 pm
Howdy, Does anyone know of a list that shows which forms in David Salo's _Gateway to Sindarin_ are derived by Salo and are not attested in Tolkien's own...
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Diego Seguí
tirachinas
Nov 12, 2012 4:09 pm
... In his Lexicon der Indogermanischen Verben (2001) H. Rix traces Greek _zélos_ (original long _a_, Dor. _zálos_), _dízemai_ and _zetéw_ 'seek' to an IE...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Nov 12, 2012 4:09 pm
There! I've added a version of Hebrews to my Neo-Quenya New Testament: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/nqnt.htm One tricky word is "ash". I used *_litte_ as a...
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Menelion Elensuule
andre.polyka...
Nov 11, 2012 2:11 pm
Hello, dli> Just out of curiosity, from your answers, it seems Quenya is your "go-to" dli> language; although I thought Sindarin was more developed (thus, I'd...
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demamade@...
Nov 10, 2012 7:26 pm
Le hannon pfstrack a Tamas. I'll study your answers carefully and get back to you :) Just out of curiosity, from your answers, it seems Quenya is your "go-to" ...
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TF
percival64
Nov 8, 2012 1:49 pm
From Mark's email I gather he is looking for the Sindarin equivalent of the conjunction 'for', not the preposition. In Quenya _an_ has been attested with the...
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pfstrack
Nov 7, 2012 2:14 pm
... Well, I know how you would do this in Quenya. Consider the subordinate clause in Cirion's Oath: _enyalien ar Elendil Vorondo voronwe_ This is glossed "in...
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demamade@...
Nov 4, 2012 7:38 pm
Mae Govannen to everyone. This is my first email here -- hope first of many :) I've started recently to look at (I don't dare yet to say study) Tolkien's ...
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Phillip Wayne
exuyangi
Nov 3, 2012 5:50 pm
etymology for 'zeal': probably from late (14th centrury) Latin. zelus"zeal, emulation" borrowed from greek. zelos (zeal or ardor). Not Indo-european, and no...
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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...
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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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TF
percival64
Nov 2, 2012 7:18 pm
Ah yes, but that would be *ehtampa for me:) Â Thomas Ferencz Let's discuss Eldarin languages - http://aglardh.middangeard.org.uk ...
