... ? Both are good Quenya, don't forget the capital V, Vardo. (cf. ma grammaire du Quenya _Cas génitif_ "Le Dictionnaire des langues elfiques, vol. 1" p....
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
... Of course distinction isn't very essential; my mother tongue Swedish lacks the distinction "falls"/"is falling", it's _faller_ in both cases, and I guess...
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cheyman@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
<02c701bea850$dc905890$f669ea9-@...> wrote: Original Article: http://www.egroups.com/group/elfling/?start=767 ... Personally I think both can be...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
... Or, perhaps, disliked. I've got a feeling he felt that evil people (and I take "people" to include "daemonic"; beings like Sauron!) deserved to have ugly...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
... That wouldn't be a problem if the words were loaned at different times by different people (perhaps seaking different dialects of "Atanya"), would it? ...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
... I've sometimes wondered if it's not a pun on English 'Sour One'! Cf. 'litlun' < "little one", which suggests 'Sauron' < "Sour One". ...
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C17GMaster@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
I am constantly referring to my 96-page printout to understand these words. Does everybody else do this, or do people slowly become fluent in Quenya? If so,...
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C17GMaster@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
How do Elves write numbers? I don't mean one through ten. If Glorinfindal conducted a census of his town, how would he write it? ... eGroups.com home:...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 2:43 pm
... Although The Fellowship of the Ring was first printed in 1954, making this connection just barely possible, I rather doubt it. I would guess that...
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Lisa Star
amlug@...
May 29, 1999 3:41 pm
... **This is a very old observation going back to the publication of Unfinished Tales, where the connections between the story of Turin and Mim are easily...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:02 pm
... The root vowel is U, and the consonants are K and Y. Being only half consonantal, it's not surprising that Y frequently becomes i, but that doesn't...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:02 pm
... I think the evidence is that d > z first, then r, rather than directly d ... Oareldi, older Qu. (and Vanyarin) Oazeldi, where the z comes from d, the ...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:02 pm
... Suulenya naa Sindannar; umin seron i sauri sanwin uusanya Serindiono. /\ WISTR LAG WIGS RAIHTS \/ WRAIQS NU IST...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:02 pm
Jerome Colburn wrote [quoting Helge Fauskanger:] ... He's probably Calima "bright" + mehtar "swordsman, warrior" with haplology: Calimamehtar > Calimehtar....
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:03 pm
... I think Yaara Quenderin, or Yaara Lambe Quenderinwa would do just fine: yaara "ancient, belonging to or descending from former times". /\ WISTR LAG...
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David Salo
dsalo@...
May 29, 1999 7:03 pm
... Well, some years back I typed out an immense word-list of Quenya, based on original sources. Then I rearranged it to show the relationships between...
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Viryal
cheyman@...
May 30, 1999 12:49 am
Aiya lambengolmo vinya! (Hail, new language-master!) I simply must direct you to Helge K. Fauskanger Ardalambion. (www.uib.no/People/hnohf/) It is WONDERFUL....
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Josu Gomez
josugp@...
May 31, 1999 5:04 pm
Thank you very much fot your contributions and questions about our "useful phrases" :) Now, some remarks... ... Just. "Buenos dias" is the more common greeting...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... One day in math class, while idly looking at a periodic system table posted to the wall next to me it occurred to me that mithril (the metal, not the...
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Victor J. Ippoliti
ippoliti@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
Hello, Perhaps you'd like to know, not all of us speak Quenya well:-) I am speaking specifically of myself. The place I learned the most at is Helge ...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
I am trying to translate a few phrases and words that will be needed in a Tolkien project I am working on. I need translations for a few more phrases. This...
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Mark
markwol@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... I believe that they were originally called Silmarillion, but the Estate asked them to change their name ;-) ... eGroups.com home:...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... [David:] ... "My spirit is toward the Grey-elves; I am not a friend of (lit. for) the foul thoughts of the rebellious ('un-law-abiding') son of Serinde."...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... We all seem fluent speakers? Well certainly I aint, and I doubt anyone else is. There's alot of simple things we can't say simply since we don't know some...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... Thanks. But why _Yára Lambe Quenderinwa_ "Ancient Speech of (the) Elvish(?)"? Why not _Yára Lambe Quendiva_ "Ancient Speech of (the) Elves"? Andreas ... ...
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Andreas Johansson
and_yo@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
I found this Quenya translation of the hymn on the Mellonath Daeron: A Elentári Tintalle silmarin penda mírea menello alcar eldion! Haiyanna palantírina ...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... problems... When the explosion is near, Elfling is here! (It does rhyme, doesn't it?) ... suffixes to form the words like YANEN ( "which"+"instrumental...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
Right, I've got my annotated translation of the second chapter of the Bible into place: http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/genesis2.htm Of course, I didn't...
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C17GMaster@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
To the new Quenya learner (and anyone else who is new here): I have been here for about a week(?). I have learned that words need to be created frequently. I...
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Dorothea Salo
dorothea@...
Jun 1, 1999 1:29 am
... There's question as to whether it's possible to become "fluent" in Quenya at all; not because of any doubt of people's abilities, but because Quenya itself...
