Hi all! Even though I haven't posted for a little while now, I've still been doing some thinking about Khuzdul. I had been thinking about the consonants for...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
May 22, 1999 4:25 pm
In response to Nicolas Poignet: at 12:19 pm +0200 20/5/99, Didier Willis wrote: ... But isn't pride the original sin? I've always understood that it was pride...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 22, 1999 4:25 pm
[Me:] ... (and _laica_ is assigned the meaning "keen, sharp, acute" elsewhere). ... with the note in Q&E (WJ:412) saying that S -eb is from ikwaa, Common ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 22, 1999 4:25 pm
... from Greek. Actually not only "would have" - DID! Letters:380 (substituting digraphs for some special letters and transcribing the Greek word): It...
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C17GMaster@...
May 22, 1999 4:26 pm
I agree with adding a few words. It should be done with moderation, and the group should 'confirm' any new words to make sure that they fit the language. We...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 22, 1999 4:26 pm
... [quote partially cut - ds] ... I think you were looking a line above chwiniol, which is glossed "whirling, giddy, fantastic" (all adjectives). chwinio is,...
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
May 22, 1999 4:26 pm
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Lisa Star wrote: [Leaving off commenting on two other topics in her post, with which I could easily otherwise waste bandwidth] ... ...
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Boris Shapiro
elenhil@...
May 22, 1999 4:26 pm
Aiya! Please, enlighten me - could the word 'finde' (a lock of hair) be "pluralized" as 'findi' in a compound word (name, to be exact)? The correct form...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 22, 1999 4:26 pm
... assume them to be nouns (here again I might be wrong), more precisely nouns of a kind that I would call 'deverbal' in french (I do not know the term in...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 22, 1999 7:28 pm
A number of good questions are being asked, many of which I don't have any good answers for, but I wanted to make sure they weren't being ignored: ... I'm not,...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 22, 1999 7:28 pm
... Since the probable root for this word is *STAL (extended form *ASTAL), from which also, it seems, comes Thalion "dauntless, steadfast" (a nickname for...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 22, 1999 7:28 pm
... Well there is "Mahal", the Khuzdul name for Aule; which, if ma- is a prefix in ma-ZaRB-ul, might just be ma-HaL. That does not bring us much closer to the...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 22, 1999 7:28 pm
... I think that such discouragement needs to be taken with some skepticism, or at least an awareness that there are differences between a) the actual meaning...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
May 23, 1999 1:51 am
... have any ... ignored: [I didn't know the answer to the first question, so I snipped it.] ... reliable, but I ... **Sorry, I meant to comment on this but I...
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C17GMaster@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
Tolkien wanted a world that was completely independent of the real Earth. He has chosen random syllables that sounded neat and shoved them together. 'Kelvar,'...
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C17GMaster@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
Isn't 'mithril' an Elvish word? I cannot find it in the Quenya dictionary I found. It could be a fluke, in which case I will report it to the webmaster of that...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
If this does not meet the standards set for this group, I apologize. However, it is still, in my opinion, a reasonable question. About Tengwar. I understand...
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David Kiltz
kiltzd@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
Just a little addition to the -ol issue. The forming of progressive forms by means of a gerund is of course a common thing. Cf. Irish: Tá mé ag dul = I'm...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
... But _findi_ IS the correct plural! B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ Anant'...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 24, 1999 10:23 pm
... We have a ready-made word for "valour", _kaane_ (cáne) in LR:362 s.v. KAN. Will _Cánendil_ do? Though if you want to allude to some "god of war", Tulkas...
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Raymond A. Brown
raybrown@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
... Yes, indeed - and Tolkien's hobbit-like sense of humor :) Tolkien's fondness for riddles, for plays on words, things not being what they seem to be...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
... Parma Eldalamberon #12, containing the Qenya Lexicon, can be ordered from Christopher Gilson, 10200 Miller Avenue, No. 426, Cupertino, CA 95104. It costs...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
... Why should _finder_ be correct? The regular form is certanly _findi_. Andreas ... eGroups.com home: http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling ...
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Viryal
cheyman@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
I must complement you, few people share this jewel of an intellectual viewpoint you and I have. Few I know of, I have been in this group too short a time yet...
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Viryal
cheyman@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
Valistyar was a early compound I made, wrongly but the name stuck. val I took correctly as power (but I would seem to think válë would be the noun form) and...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 24, 1999 10:24 pm
For "basic" Quenya verbs, like _sil-_ "shine", ther seem to be an distinction between "continuative-present" _síla_ (_siila_) "is shining" and ...
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Josu Gomez
josugp@...
May 25, 1999 11:39 pm
The Language Group of the Spanish Tolkien Society (STE), in the language mailing list "Lambenor"; (http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/Lambenor), has developed...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 25, 1999 11:39 pm
... Mithril is an elvish word, but it is quite rightly not in a Quenya dictionary since it is Sindarin (Quenya words typically don't contain the sound -th-)....
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Jerome S. Colburn
jscolbur@...
May 25, 1999 11:40 pm
... Bulletproof vests are made of Kevlar with the v before the l. Animals in Quenya are kelvar with the l before the v. Not that Elvish doesn't appear in trade...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
May 25, 1999 11:40 pm
... You mean that 'Ent' and 'ain't' would have been homophones in JRRT's accent of English -- or at least in rural dialects of England which he associated with...
