Reading Tolkien's poem "Ent and the Ent-wife" in LR:466, I discovered a very interesting matter. Treebeard had said before he started singing to Merry and...
In VT43:33, it was proposed that the noun _yaime_ 'wailing' (MC:223) is a derivative of the base YAMA 'call' (PE12:105) with intrusion of _i_ into the stem. ...
I have found a Finnish influence on Quenya that has not been noted before. Quenya has an allative case ending _-nna_ (VT6:14), which signifies movement towards...
Hello, One long-standing problem in Quenya phonology has been the anomal behaviour of the _tyelpetéma_ consonants with regard to syllable weight, which is in...
[Suilad o Galadhorn am mellyn în phain! This is my first post to Lambengolmor list.] The evolution of the pronominal forms in the papers of J.R.R. Tolkien is...
Greetings ! This post is an attempt to track back the origins of mixed mutation in Sindarin, partly with what we can deduce from the internal evolution of the...
On Dienstag, Dezember 3, 2002, at 03:55 Uhr, Hans Georg Lundahl wrote: [Quoting of nearly the whole of the original post deleted by the moderator. DO NOT DO...
Hi, Has anybody ever figured out how to analyse the word _miqilis_ 'kisses' from the poem _Nieninque_ (A Secret Vice). The full sentence is _yar i vilya anta...
On Donnerstag, Dezember 19, 2002, at 02:00 Uhr, Peter ... In addition to assuming that Quenya did have a plural in -s at the time of the poem's composition,...
... The Qenya Lexicon gives the following entry: MIQI kiss. _miqe (e)_ a kiss. _miqile_ kissing. _miqilitse_ little or tender kiss. _miq-_ to kiss. [_minqe_. ...
[Cross-posted to elfling and lambengolmor. -- ab] ... **While this is a very likely interpretation of _miqilis_ (and I thought about it myself), it is possible...
... This is certainly a possible interpretation of _miqilis_. However, your assumption that _all_ of the forms ending in _-lis_ in QL contain "the same...
... **I am aware of this. I should have made myself more clear, because I did not mean to imply that the suffix _-lis_ was always the same suffix in all those...
... **However, the problem is that _niqi-_ is rather "white" than "snow". We have base NIQI "white" and derivatives _ninqe_ "white", _niqis (ss)_ (_niqi-_...
There's a formation in Finnish to express future time: a conjugated (person, time) form of the verb _olla_ 'to be' and the present participle of a verb, e.g....
... When you say "conjugated (person, time)", do you mean that the auxiliary is in the future tense (so that _olen oleva_ more literally means "I will be...
Hello, ... If that is a participle, the more literal translation will be 'I will be being', won't it? ... To my senses as a non-native speaker, that doesn't...
... No, because there is no future tense in Finnish (nor in any other known Finno-Ugrian language). The only tenses are the present and the past. _olen oleva_...
... Actually, in the Quenya verbal system _i_ indicates the _aorist_, not the present tense. Examples include: _i KARIR quettar ómainen_ 'those who FORM words...
... That would clash with the negative element _u- (uv-, um-, un-)_, _ú, ?ugu_ (VT42:32). Unless they are related? Tolkien glossed it as 'originally...
... Yes, that was known to me. There's no aorist vs. present (continual) tense distinction in Finnish, only one present tense. I find it quite strange that the...
... Aorist in Greek means "undefined, not fixed". Hence it fits the Quenya "tense" quite well (compare Patrick's description). Indeed, the name "aorist" fits...
... Thank you, I understand now. But what about _Eleni SILIR lúmesse omentiemman_ 'The stars SHINE on the hour of our meeting' (VI:324)? Here the time is...
... Técanye: Depends on what Hell means, linguistically speaking: are we talking about a place of Punishment and eternal damnation? Like Hebrew Gehenna or the...
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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Feb 3, 2003 1:30 pm
... This is one interpretation. Is not there another possible one, namely that the aorist is used in a sense not excluding temporal determination, but merely...
... While I agree that 'on the hour' may not necessarily point to a single incident in time, the hour we are talking about is specified by an attribute ('the...
