In my recent message I wrote in Quenya: Si méralyë [...] 'If you want [...] It is of course a mistake. In place of _si_ there should be Quenya hypothetical...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Dec 17, 2000 6:53 am
Aiya! Sunday, December 17, 2000, 12:36:27 AM, Ice Pick wrote: IP> I think this is a great idea! Good luck in the future, and if you need any IP> help, call...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
Dec 17, 2000 11:40 am
... Probably *KUGOR would yield _cuor_, not quor, just as *khugoo > huo, not hwo, and *khugan- > huan, not hwan. I don't recall any examples of o-o hiatus...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Dec 17, 2000 12:52 pm
... **Aaah, I looked at it and realized that this is the poem to which I wanted to give some comments, but I never have done. Once Lukas commented my own poem...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 17, 2000 2:35 pm
... Actually, just when did the Hobbits appear? They're said to be of the same "species" as mortal men (but "species" may not have its strict biological ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 17, 2000 2:48 pm
... Um, perhaps we should rather think of it as _ndy_ being present. We know, after all, that NQ kept _-nd-_ but _-d-_ became _-r-_. Also, there's a number of...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 17, 2000 2:52 pm
... "Quenyan" isn't entirely right, I'm afraid. _Quenya_ is an adjective that's frequently used as a noun, rather exactly like English _English_. There's no ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 17, 2000 3:01 pm
... Seems completely correct. ... Good question. I'd go for _olorelya_. (Standard tactic for avoiding unallowed consonant combinations - infix an _e_. It'll...
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Richard F. Smit
r.f.smit@...
Dec 17, 2000 3:05 pm
... My source is "English Grammar for Students of Latin" (see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0934034192/qid=977062417/sr=1-1/002-6366996-1020839 ) It...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Dec 17, 2000 6:11 pm
... Yay! ^_^ ... So to get the English phrase, "Your dream is your war" would be something _Olorelya *is* ohtalya_. What would be the word for "is"? ... But...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Dec 17, 2000 6:21 pm
... My source is a Latin course book published by Bolchazzy-Carducci Publishers, written by Waldo E. Sweet. ... Alas, you make more sense than I! But, if you...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
Dec 17, 2000 7:38 pm
Aiya! Sunday, December 17, 2000, 6:02:45 PM, Richard F. Smit wrote: RFS> _I *hampi carar i neer_. RFS> ...using the new word. "The garments make the man". I...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 17, 2000 9:22 pm
... Your idea is certainly convenient, Helge, but isn't there a little porblem? If /kwo/ didn't occure in the language, and especially if it was perceived as...
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David Nowakowski
aragorn250@...
Dec 18, 2000 6:39 am
... I would use _naa_ for is, making your phrase _Olorelya naa ohtalya_. David Nowakowski aragorn250@... ...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn@...
Dec 18, 2000 8:08 am
Dear Friends, Can anybody help me to find the right etymology of the Quenya word _loa_ 'growth; year'? Maybe it comes from the CE _*lon~a_? I also have thoght...
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Ales Bican
bican@...
Dec 18, 2000 10:34 am
... **Yup, I think the change dj > _ly_ might have been earlier than ~Noldorin change _ndy_ > _ny_. When Tolkien mentions a word in Q&E it is usually (though...
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Richard F. Smit
r.f.smit@...
Dec 18, 2000 1:26 pm
... Excellent - this suggests that Latin can do *both* then, depending on context... ... Yes - the definite article, both singlular and plural. I must...
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Richard F. Smit
r.f.smit@...
Dec 18, 2000 1:37 pm
... Thanks - it's not mine, it is the plural form of the word _hampe_="garment" given on Ales Bican's Quenya New Words page: ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 18, 2000 6:55 pm
... Well, I'd use _care_ "makes" or maybe _cára_ "is making". AFAIK, _cara_ is not a correct form of of the verb _car-_ "make". Andreas ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 18, 2000 7:10 pm
... Use _ná_ "is"; _Olorelya ná ohtalya_. ... We-ell, one could of course argue that names should go unchanged, but 1) _Morgoth_ violates a couple of Q's...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Dec 18, 2000 10:53 pm
... Ehr, great...but where did _si_ = "if" come from? (I would be very, very happy if you could tell me that it is genuine Tolkien...) - HF...
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John Rateliff
sacnoth@...
Dec 18, 2000 11:35 pm
... Publishers, of course, of that little book on Tolkien's classical Latin sources. Probably overstated the argument, but did draw attention to a part of his...
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David Nowakowski
aragorn250@...
Dec 19, 2000 1:30 am
I was just wondering if Quenya has a suffix like English "-ly" for forming adverbs. Throughout Tolkien's material, I find lots of adjectives but am hard...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Dec 19, 2000 2:17 am
... _Olorelya naanë ohtalya_ would be "You dream was your war", correct? ... That makes sense, Danke schon! Hantale, Eruanno ...
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Ice Pick
icepick3000@...
Dec 19, 2000 6:51 am
... I read over the article on Ardalambion about Quenya yesterday, and it noted that the accusative had generally been replaced ( or just not used, to ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Dec 19, 2000 6:38 pm
... Well, it would be correct if _na-_ "is" is an regular verb (at least in respect to the past tense). Now, I can't completely rule out that possibility, but...
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vanlin680@...
Dec 19, 2000 7:59 pm
<> _noo_ would seem to be "before"; e.g. _Noocoire_ "before stirring". _mete-_ might be related to _metta_ "end," I suppose. It would make sense anyway, ...
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vanlin680@...
Dec 19, 2000 8:03 pm
<< Take the sentence "He traveled swiftly". I have _lende_ from WJ, with the 3rd p. masculine suffix _-ro_. The adjective "swift" _linta_ from Namarie. Thus,...
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David Nowakowski
aragorn250@...
Dec 19, 2000 9:03 pm
... So that would make the sentence _Linderye lintave_, right? Thanks for your help! Namárie, David Nowakowski ...
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kiltzd@...
Dec 19, 2000 10:49 pm
... This has already been discussed a number of times. Firstly Q. _-ve_ seems to form adverbs from (?primary) adjectives. Thus _andave_ as in _andave...
