... 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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jan 30, 2003 2:27 pm
... That would clash with the negative element _u- (uv-, um-, un-)_, _ú, ?ugu_ (VT42:32). Unless they are related? Tolkien glossed it as 'originally...
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pa2rick <pwynne@.....
pa2rick
Jan 30, 2003 1:59 pm
... Actually, in the Quenya verbal system _i_ indicates the _aorist_, not the present tense. Examples include: _i KARIR quettar ómainen_ 'those who FORM words...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jan 30, 2003 12:26 pm
... 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_...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jan 30, 2003 12:22 pm
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...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Jan 29, 2003 10:05 pm
... 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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jan 29, 2003 6:13 pm
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....
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Jan 5, 2003 12:29 am
... **Well, the whole entry goes like this: NIQI white _ninqe (i)_ white. _niqis (ss)_ snow. _niqissea_ snowy. _niqilis_ fine snow. _niqileninqe_ snow-white. ...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Dec 28, 2002 12:27 pm
... **However, the problem is that _niqi-_ is rather "white" than "snow". We have base NIQI "white" and derivatives _ninqe_ "white", _niqis (ss)_ (_niqi-_...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Dec 27, 2002 3:32 pm
... **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...
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pa2rick <pwynne@.....
pa2rick
Dec 23, 2002 2:07 pm
... This is certainly a possible interpretation of _miqilis_. However, your assumption that _all_ of the forms ending in _-lis_ in QL contain "the same...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Dec 22, 2002 2:25 pm
[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...
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pa2rick <pwynne@.....
pa2rick
Dec 21, 2002 3:14 pm
... The Qenya Lexicon gives the following entry: MIQI kiss. _miqe (e)_ a kiss. _miqile_ kissing. _miqilitse_ little or tender kiss. _miq-_ to kiss. [_minqe_. ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 20, 2002 1:18 am
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,...
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Peter <edelberg@.....
pengolodh_dk
Dec 19, 2002 1:28 am
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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Dec 12, 2002 8:41 pm
I don't know if articles on Nevbosh are accepted on this list, but here is one. A quote from the Nevbosh entry in Ardalmbion ...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Dec 4, 2002 1:02 pm
David Kiltz <dkiltz@...> wrote: "Elisions can be found e.g. in V:72 "...kár(e) eldain..." or "...ír(e) ilqa...", the elision being noted by a dot...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Dec 3, 2002 8:07 pm
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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Dec 3, 2002 3:58 pm
Petri Tikka <kari.j.tikka@...> wrote: "Could the original have gone something like *_Olosse íre losse ve_ or *_Olosse íre sílala_ (cf. _íre_ 'when'...
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Tchitrec@...
tchitrec
Dec 1, 2002 7:38 pm
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...
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Ryszard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Nov 22, 2002 4:01 pm
[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...
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Pavel Iosad
p_iosad
Nov 15, 2002 2:25 pm
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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Nov 11, 2002 12:22 pm
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...
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Vicente Velasco
rashbold
Nov 10, 2002 2:43 pm
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. ...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Oct 31, 2002 12:20 pm
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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Oct 27, 2002 2:39 pm
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Oct 8, 2002 12:16 pm
... 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
lukas.novak@...
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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Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
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...
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Yyr Threwn
Erestel
Oct 7, 2002 12:32 pm
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-...
