Another interesting datum pertaining to lenition or lack thereof after S./N. _morn_ in compounds occurs in Tolkien's early "Noldorin Word-list", published in ...
Recent discussions on this list involving S. _born_ 'hot, red' (L:426-27) set me to wondering if this form had any discernible cognates in the published...
... I just want to point out that English _pyre_ is not a cognate of Greek _pur_ but a borrowing of same. The actual English cognate is, of course, _fire_! ...
Rich Alderson
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Aug 7, 2005 5:11 pm
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... On the note of etymological punning, there is not only the connection with IE *_peHur_/peuHr_ 'fire' (as substance) but also the Germanic word family of...
On the p. 54 of the _Early Qenya Grammar_ (in PE14) we read: "pronouns may also add the adverbial case endings: in this case all are treated as singulars...
"The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion" by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull should be published on : 10/25/2005. It will be a welcome volume ! ...
Recently on Elfling, an attempt by one "Evenstar" to translate some French proverbs into neo-Quenya (post #32037) led to a discussion of the Qenya word _meoi_...
Please forgive this off-topic post, but I want to ask list members to please consider making a donation to the American Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricane...
In "The Quenta" (abbreviated as "Q"), Tolkien's 1930 version of his mythology, the great river of East Beleriand (later called the _Gelion_) bore for a time...
... Leaving aside the question whether rivers (or trees, v.i.) were classed as 'things' in Elvish, _flind_ can go back e.g. to _*sp(i)lindi_, an adjectival...
... I would be more inclined to reconstruct the full primitive form of N. _flind, flinn_ as *_sp(i)linde_, with short _-e_. I can't find any examples in the...
... Edouard, I'm sorry not to have seen this message and replied to it sooner. Christina and I also had not seen the description on Houghton Mifflin's site,...
In Lambengolmor post #799 I mentioned the "forgotten words" of Elvish, attested forms that are generally "excluded from the idiosyncratic canons of the...
Helge Fauskanger, in his Quenya-English wordlist, includes the following two entries: _vëa_ (1) "adult, manly, vigorous" (WEG) _vëa_ (2) "sea" (MC:213, 214,...
Patrick Wynne mentioned in message #821 of this list the name _Vëantur_, besides _Vëandur_, as occurrences of Quenya _vea_ 'sea' in late writings. Another...
Hello, I have been invited to the SILF, which this year is hosted by the University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/romaanisetkielet/congres/index_eng.htm...
"Patrick H. Wynne" <pwynne@...> wrote, regarding the chart ... Although _Isilme_ has an appropriate meaning, don't you think it could have a link with...
... I should also have noted that a clear example of this feminine agentive _-me_ appears in the _Etymologies_ s.v. SER- 'love, be fond of (of liking,...
Not only do we have _Isilme_ — as a female name I would translate it in English 'Moonshine', sounds more feminine to me than just 'Moonlight' ;-) — but...
In my post (message #820) on the name _Axantur_ I wrote that this name apparently consists of Q. _axan_ 'law, rule, commandment' ... Edouard Kloczko mentioned...
A question remains : were _Axantur_ *'Theologian', and _Nolondil_ *'Philosopher' Númenorian Proper Names only or also lexemes of Quenya? I don't remember...
In Chapter IV "The Calendars" in _The Peoples of Middle-earth_, Christopher Tolkien presents the early workings (c. 1949–50) for Appendix D of _The Lord of...
In the "New Era" calendar of c. 1949-50 (XII:133-136), the 12 months of the year are divided into five seasons -- Spring, Autumn, and Stirring have two months...
Both the _Vinyar Tengwar_ and _Parma Eldalamberon_ errata lists have been updated: http://www.elvish.org/errata/ I'd like to thank Diego Seguí for reporting...
I would like to draw everyone's attention to a significant new contribution to the linguistic and comparative study of the phenomenon of vowel affection in...
_The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ Vol. 4 is now available Volume 4 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issue 31–40, and is available for order on the...
I have discovered a font-related problem in the first version of the _CVT_ vol. 4 (_not_ affecting vol. 5a). I have a work-around, and will release the...
The corrected version is now available for order. Those of you who ordered the first version: although the window to do so seems VERY tight indeed, it might be...
If canceling your order (and then making a new order) is not an option, then on further reflection I would like to ask those of you who ordered a copy of the...
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