... 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...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Feb 15, 2003 2:55 pm
[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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Feb 18, 2003 11:37 pm
Hello, Ales Bican has raised several most interesting points in response to my proposals regarding the various domains of phonetics and phonology in Quenya...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 19, 2003 1:09 pm
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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Feb 19, 2003 3:10 pm
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...
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Didier Willis
hisweloke
Feb 19, 2003 6:10 pm
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: ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 20, 2003 12:44 pm
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...
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Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Feb 21, 2003 1:09 am
... 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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Feb 21, 2003 6:04 pm
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,...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 22, 2003 2:21 pm
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,...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 25, 2003 1:29 pm
... 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...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Mar 3, 2003 1:52 am
... **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...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Mar 3, 2003 2:14 am
... **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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 4, 2003 12:38 pm
... 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.). ... ...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 5, 2003 1:45 pm
... 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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Mar 6, 2003 7:49 pm
[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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Mar 6, 2003 8:25 pm
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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Mar 6, 2003 8:29 pm
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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 6, 2003 9:51 pm
... 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...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Mar 6, 2003 11:23 pm
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,...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 7, 2003 11:14 am
... 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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 7, 2003 1:34 pm
... 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...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Mar 7, 2003 6:23 pm
... **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-...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 8, 2003 2:12 pm
... Isn't that what I just implied? So I do agree. ... I'm not actually certain, but I think I mean it here as a preposition used as a mark of location...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 9, 2003 2:49 pm
... Nominal prefixes occur frequently in Quenya: E.g. _mirroanwi_, tercenye_ etc. [_Mirroanwi_ 'Incarnates, those (spirits) put into flesh' < _mi- srawanwe_...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 9, 2003 4:52 pm
... This presentation fails to account for a critical fact concerning the first stage of the (indeed) evolving text: Tolkien's Old English translation...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 9, 2003 7:24 pm
... All nice and well, except that _mi_ "in, within" (V:373) and _-sse_ aren't cognates, while _na_ and _-nna_ are. One can sit _mahalmassen_ "upon thrones"...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 10, 2003 12:47 pm
... I didn't mean to say that. The Etymologies give Quenya _an, ana, na_ "to, towards", prefix _ana_. That is pretty close to the meaning of _-nna_. I do not...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Mar 10, 2003 4:56 pm
... I said as much in the post you are replying to. ... Certainly it exists, no one is denying that, but its meaning is in dispute. ... Listed in the...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 11, 2003 3:25 am
There seem to be two main objections to accepting the phrase "_to hýţe_" (OE 'to (the) haven') in the parallel Old English translation as indicating...
