... **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 The first syllable of a KAR-initial stem wouldn't suffer any kind of syncope in Quenya, since stress was retracted exactly to...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-...
... 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...
... Nominal prefixes occur frequently in Quenya: E.g. _mirroanwi_, tercenye_ etc. [_Mirroanwi_ 'Incarnates, those (spirits) put into flesh' < _mi- srawanwe_...
... This presentation fails to account for a critical fact concerning the first stage of the (indeed) evolving text: Tolkien's Old English translation...
... 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"...
... 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...
... 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...
There seem to be two main objections to accepting the phrase "_to hęțe_" (OE 'to (the) haven') in the parallel Old English translation as indicating...
In XII:363, Tolkien mentions a Telerin adjective _gâialâ_ (the source has macrons) equivalent in sense to the Quenya _aika_ "fell, terrible, dire" (XII:347...
... Whether a switch in quantities exists in the Tolkien langauges or not, it certainly does in classic Attic: Menélêos regularly becomes Menéleôs (the...
Aiya! Do you know anything about rare cases of -r derivation in Old Noldorin? I mean cases like N _gador_ "prison" (V:358) and _nadhor_ "pasture" (V:374) which...
... Probabaly it is a typo (not a scribal error of Tolkien) for _gâiala_. In such difficult matters, the typos are not a rare find, and are most unfortunate. ...
... Two forms are actually given for each of these words in the _Etymologies_: N. _gadr, gador_ 'prison, dungeon' < GAT(H) (whence also N. _gath_ 'cavern', N....
Aiya! Friday, March 14, 2003, 3:08:55 AM, pa2rick wrote: <skipping a thorough explanation for which I am grateful> ... p> Interpretation of ON _etledro_ as...
Clarification: As I mentioned in my first post on the subject (_nahamna_) the hypothesis outlined by me was done as a heuristic means. To see whether it could...
... **I see. Why do you think so? ... **I was not talking about a palatalized _p_, because I do not think the graphemic Cy combinations stand for palatalized...
Boris Shapiro asked if anyone has any ideas about the use of _-ro_ as an abstract noun ending in ON _ndakro_ 'slaughter, battle' (V:375). In all other...
... If I read it correctly, _ndakro_ is given as a ON form (just as _ndagno_ "slain"). [Absolutely -- this is not a contested point. I merely wished to make it...
... I know. I wasn't criticizing. I just wanted to hook on to it. ... That is a severe counter-argument. One would then have to resort to other explanations....
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