... **However, the problem is that _niqi-_ is rather "white" than "snow". We have base NIQI "white" and derivatives _ninqe_ "white", _niqis (ss)_ (_niqi-_...
... **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...
... This is certainly a possible interpretation of _miqilis_. However, your assumption that _all_ of the forms ending in _-lis_ in QL contain "the same...
[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...
... The Qenya Lexicon gives the following entry: MIQI kiss. _miqe (e)_ a kiss. _miqile_ kissing. _miqilitse_ little or tender kiss. _miq-_ to kiss. [_minqe_. ...
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,...
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 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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
There are several known Quenya words for 'song' in the published corpus. All of them begin with the voiced dental approximant written with _l_ in Latin...
... I think that is rather _loa_ + _ende_ "middle of the (solar) year". Cf. LR:(part 3)486 "The first day [of the year "_loa_"] was called _yestare_, the...
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Lukas Novak
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Oct 8, 2002 2:27 am
Petri Tikka listed a number of nouns in _-nde_; see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/273 Would _loende_ also fit in? Lukas...
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Oct 8, 2002 2:23 am
David Kiltz wrote: DK> It would be interesting to see whether the _-uva_ forms are a "pure" DK> future tense or rather some kind of prospective. I have been...
We read in the last lines of VT 43, page 22: "_sahtienna_ (At. V) is explained in the etymological notes on the verso of At. V, which give the root THAG-...
... Until we have actual examples of numbers as adjectives (a real text with _neldë coa/coar_ inside, for example), we can't provide a fruitful theory about...
... Actually, that would contradict JRRT's words (XI:407) "Similarly with -va; but this was and remained an adjective, and had the plural form -ve in plural...
This is another reminder to be judicious when quoting a post to which you are responding. Please keep quoting to the minimum necessary to establish the context...
... invariable and _lisse-miruvooreva_ doesn't agree with _yuldar_; this is well known, but the really puzzling thing is: why? (...) ... indeclinable ... ...
In VT44:8 a suffix _-nde_ that forms nouns from verbs or verbal stems is mentioned. _arcande_ 'petition' < _arca-_ 'pray' (VT44:8), _ulunde_ 'flood' < ULU-...
-I'm sorry if this is drifting away from Quenya but my response will (hopefully) set some things straight. This will ultimately be beneficial for the...
And while I'm on the topic of keeping the "signal-to-noise" ration high: While queries like Boris's are not prohibited on this list, I would like to keep them...
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Lukas Novak
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Oct 5, 2002 9:56 pm
... Err, isn't it rather nom. pl. ? ... A: Philosophy is the making of significant distinctions. B: Why isn't that just taxonomy? A: Your question proves my...
