... 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...
Lukas Novak
lukas.novak@...
Feb 3, 2003 1:30 pm
312
... 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...
I would like to draw attention to Ales Bican's substantial and thoughtful linguistic analysis of "The _Atalante_ Fragments", just published on his web site: ...
[This letter is being sent to elfling, lambengolmor and tolklang, because some people may be members of one list but are not (do not want to be) members of...
Ales Bican suggests in his study of the "Atalante Fragments" that _nahamna_ "to hýţe" (V:47) might be analyzed as _na-_ "to" prefixed preposition (V:374) +...
Greetings, I have long wondered what kind of tree could be the _lebethron_ mentioned twice in LotR: "but take these staves. ... The men of the White Mountains...
... Thanks to a friend, I was pointed that Quercus digitata is also annotated as Quercus falcata and Quercus rubra in various taxonomy lists, thus apparently...
... I'm no aldangolmo, but of Q. prinus the _Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees, Eastern Region_ (Knopf, 1980), p. 406, says, "The wood is...
Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Feb 9, 2003 2:00 pm
319
[Sorry for such a belated responce: I meant to react to this letter, but was occupied by other things. -- ab] ... **First of all, I think there is no published...
Hello, Ales Bican has raised several most interesting points in response to my proposals regarding the various domains of phonetics and phonology in Quenya...
On the subject of "palatalized" consonants I think it is paramount to hold up the distinction between primary and secondary palatalized sounds, as pointed out...
David Kiltz has set forth a theory proposing how one can resolve the difficulty regarding the apparent violations of the syllable weight limitation. While I...
Greetings, I am submitting for peer review my essay about the lebethron tree. The list moderators have made it available in the "Files" area of the list: ...
On Mittwoch, Februar 19, 2003, at 03:50 Uhr, Pavel Iosad wrote: <snip> [...] ... They are two things. Yes, "s" also has a special status in I.-E. because it...
... It must be noted here that this is a matter of Modern Greek _spelling_, not of _phonetics_ or _phonology_. The spelling rule for foreign borrowings arose...
Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Feb 21, 2003 1:09 am
326
Hello, ... 'No other' here no doubt means 'not derived from _s_', as the s-prefixion could turn into z-prefixion in a Slavic root like *_zdorv-_ 'hale,...
Zdorovo, ... Two things: I was actually referring to the role of "s" (and its allophone "z") as a cluster splitter. Not to the s-mobile. As for the Slavic,...
... I was referring to The Etymologies. But your examples are wonderful, I didn't find them then. So _st_ would be retained. David Kiltz [As would _sk_, on the...
... **Er, did I miss something? As far as I know neither the perfect of _lelya-_ (did you mean _auta-_?) nor the present tense of _lanta-_ (I suppose you mean...
... **I may not understand you and perhaps the confusion was caused by my failure to explain precisely what I meant the by Cy combinations. At any rate I would...
... Seems you understood me right. There was no confusion. I simply think that _ty_, _hy_, _ny_, _ly_ are combinations of C+y. ... I beg to differ (v.s.). ... ...
... Cf. "RH represents a voiceless _r_ (usually dervied from older initial _sr-_). It was written _hr_ in Quenya." (LR:1088). I know of no examples, but...
[PLEASE be sure to indicate clearly and accurately to whom you are responding in your posts! CFH] [David Kiltz wrote:] ... Well, yes. (I agree, anyway) Though...
Hello, ... I strongly doubt that. The first syllable of a KAR-initial stem wouldn't suffer any kind of syncope in Quenya, since stress was retracted exactly to...
Hello, ... I was referring to IX:56, where the forms _lendien_ and _nilendie_ occur, and they are to be compared with the first edition's _vánier_, as well...
... Yes, there was probably no _kr-_ in PQ, or at later stages before Quenya. I mean possible loan words, since the cluster couldn't be understood. By analogy...
Hello, ... It could be lost altogether. It might be noted that the only non-Eldarin language from which Quenya is known to have borrowed is Khuzdul (well,...
... Note however (Pomp. comm. Don.: s littera hanc habet potestatem, ut ubi opus fuerit excludatur de metro. "The character of the letter s is such that it...
... Without the example _Hristo_ < _Christus_ (VT44:16,18), that would be a convincing arguement. The example is what I base my hypothesis on, otherwise that...
... **This is actually one of possibilities I suggested. I tried primarily to find the base from Etym and the most likely ones I could think of were KHAM-...
