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 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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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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Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Feb 9, 2003 2:00 pm
... 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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Didier Willis
hisweloke
Feb 8, 2003 8:11 pm
... 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...
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Didier Willis
hisweloke
Feb 8, 2003 7:21 pm
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...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Feb 8, 2003 6:22 pm
Ales Bican suggests in his study of the "Atalante Fragments" that _nahamna_ "to hýþe" (V:47) might be analyzed as _na-_ "to" prefixed preposition (V:374) +...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Feb 8, 2003 1:47 pm
[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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 8, 2003 5:31 am
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: ...
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atarinke <martin.b...
atarinke
Feb 6, 2003 8:13 am
... 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...
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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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl &l...
hglundahl
Jan 31, 2003 10:32 pm
... 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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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jan 31, 2003 6:43 pm
... 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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jan 31, 2003 2:11 pm
... Aorist in Greek means "undefined, not fixed". Hence it fits the Quenya "tense" quite well (compare Patrick's description). Indeed, the name "aorist" fits...
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Petri Tikka
petristikka
Jan 31, 2003 1:18 am
... 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 ...
