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5057 David Salo
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Jun 7, 2001
3:21 am
... In my opinion, ceredir is from cared+dîr where cared = "making" (as cabed = "leaping, a leap"). Cf. also feredir "hunter" whose plural is faradrim....
5058 David Kiltz
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Jun 7, 2001
7:53 am
... Yes, that seems to make perfect sense....
5059 SKC8563@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
9:38 am
Aiya Elfling! I recently translated a Korean poem, 'the cliff'(cheolbyeok in Korean). Perhaps it looks like a word-play. but I like this poem very much. O,...
5060 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 7, 2001
10:01 am
i have the impression that vanyarin, lindarin and earlier noldorin plurals in -ai shouldnt be written with _yanta_, simply because their origin isn't AY, but...
5061 SKC8563@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
10:34 am
I made a mistake indeed... It should be '-nna' instead of '-llo', for sure. (Since 'I go _into_ the tomb'.) Sorry for this. I found it right after posting......
5062 SKC8563@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
10:42 am
I have a question. I know that pronominal suffixes '-re/-ro&#39; make preceeding vowel long. So, if I can express the meaning 'She comes back'(aorist), should I...
5063 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 7, 2001
11:43 am
since we have an example like nisse > nis, then why do we still have words like lasse, quesse and esse in late 3rd Age instead of *las, *ques and *es? this...
5064 lovelyphilips@... Send Email Jun 7, 2001
2:29 pm
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5065 elfling@yahoogroups.com Send Email Jun 7, 2001
2:29 pm
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5066 Helge K. Fauskanger
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Jun 7, 2001
3:17 pm
... lord of the ring series i have not read them as of yet but i have seen the movie Amazing! The rest of us have no hope of seeing the (first of the)...
5067 Andreas Johansson
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Jun 7, 2001
8:52 pm
... I'm not quite clear on what you're refering to. Vanyarin plurals are the same as those of normal/Noldorin Quenya. Common Lindarin (if that waht you're...
5068 Andreas Johansson
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Jun 7, 2001
8:55 pm
... If you saw my and Mr Kiltz' recent thread, I said that the status of -re/-ro in Mature Quenya is uncertain - it MAY very well be valid, but we don't have ...
5069 Andreas Johansson
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Jun 7, 2001
8:58 pm
... Actually, I think that _nisse_ vs _nís_ simply reflect PQ variation between long and short final vowel. If you look in Etym, such variation isn't that ...
5070 imrahil@... Send Email Jun 9, 2001
4:47 am
Suilad, mellyn! First of all, it's a pleasure to join this group! My name is Reinaldo J. Lopes, I'm a Brazilian Tolkien fan and member of the Conselho Branco,...
5071 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 9, 2001
10:09 am
... Hi Reinaldo, its nice to see that Quenya brings all the world together! :) (like Esperanto intended) ... Ah Adunaic, a secret love of mine... the fullest...
5072 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 9, 2001
10:25 am
Hm.. is anything known about the etymology of the word "edregol"? according to me, it contains the prefix "et-" and the active participle "-ol".. the meaning...
5073 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 9, 2001
11:06 am
in the article of the Faculte des Etudes Elfiques about the history of the languages, there is a chart about the evolutions and dialects, which contains...
5074 imrahil@... Send Email Jun 9, 2001
8:33 pm
... together! :) I thank you indeed, master Gildor! :) ... element ... Is it really masculine? I just remembered that an earlier name of Ar- ...
5075 Mike Adams
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Jun 10, 2001
9:05 am
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5076 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 10, 2001
1:55 pm
... as you see Tolkien changed the name, maybe because he decided it should be masculine? except that it is used in those 2 or 3 "late" masculine names,...
5077 David Kiltz
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Jun 10, 2001
6:54 pm
... Very vague but still... Wasn't there a note somewhere in HoME or else that some of the (?later) Adunaic names could take an element -hil that was actually...
5078 D. Daniel Andriës
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Jun 10, 2001
7:30 pm
... Possible...even likely! We are told that the Adûnaic language was 'enriched&#39; with loan-words of Eldarin origin, most frequently Sindarin, since the ...
5079 John Smith
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Jun 10, 2001
10:54 pm
Hello! I've noticed this list is pretty slow compared to what I am used to, so might as well spice it up! I want to know what everybody thinks about this. What...
5080 Myrtheos@... Send Email Jun 10, 2001
11:33 pm
<<Hello! I've noticed this list is pretty slow compared to what I am used to, so might as well spice it up! I want to know what everybody thinks about this. ...
5081 D. Daniel Andriës
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Jun 10, 2001
11:58 pm
... One pro and one con leap immediately to mind. PRO: Relatively easy pronunciation. No 'strange&#39; vowels sounds like French, English, and German have in...
5082 Dorothea Salo
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Jun 11, 2001
1:08 am
... I think it's on-topic, though I consider it not the most worthwhile of questions. Like Myrtheos, I don't have any particularly cogent definition of ...
5083 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 11, 2001
9:44 am
Dorothea Salo deithant ... to ... personally i would like to know about those ideas of yours... :) i have browsed some of the "conlang-net" and i am aware of...
5084 Gildor Inglorion
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Jun 11, 2001
5:20 pm
hon mabathon! rochon ellint im! this line is said to be shout by Arwen in the movie... rochon=rider!! if indeed Arwen is going to say it, it wont be very...
5085 wayne.blair@... Send Email Jun 11, 2001
8:23 pm
Does anyone know if Atanielle Annyn Noel, AKA Ruth Noel, author of Languages of Middle Earth and Mythology of Middle Earth, takes part in this group? If...
5086 dsalo@... Send Email Jun 11, 2001
9:48 pm
... Not necessarily. Sindarin is not a language like, say, Spanish, where there is an obligatory (or nearly so) concord between the sex of an animate...
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