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Re: [tengscribe] How do you pronounce "lle"?

You don't.

_-lle_ is a Quenya ending meaning, according to some sources, plural
"you" (or "y'all", as some say nowadays). Tolkien seems to have rejected
this ending in favour of the suffix _-lde_.

The normal ending for singular "you" is _-lye_. The object form is
similarly expressed with the independent word _lye_. This is pronounced
roughly as "lie" in English "sillier".

I would translate "I love you" as _Melin lye_. The pronoun "I" is
expressed by _-n_.

Yours,
Måns


Barbara Healy skrev:
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> I found "lle" as the translation for "you" but have no idea how to
> pronounce it....as in "amin mela lle" which means, I think, "I love you".
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> thanks,
> Barb
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Thu Jul 2, 2009 6:23 pm

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I found "lle" as the translation for "you" but have no idea how to pronounce it....as in "amin mela lle" which means, I think, "I love you". thanks, Barb...
Barbara Healy
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Jul 2, 2009
6:20 am

Are you sure it's 'lle', and not 'ile' or some such, using sans-serif fonts in which a lowercase L looks a LOT like a capital I? If it's two L's and an E, I'd...
Josh Griffing
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Jul 2, 2009
6:02 pm

You don't. _-lle_ is a Quenya ending meaning, according to some sources, plural "you" (or "y'all", as some say nowadays). Tolkien seems to have rejected this...
Måns Björkman
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Jul 2, 2009
6:23 pm

Quenya grammar appears to be tricky for neophytes. (Also, the suffix -lle would be pronounced with a long L as in Italian; the Spanish pronunciation is...
Brendan Gordon
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Jul 2, 2009
9:53 pm

... _Lye melin_ is perhaps easier to pronounce. The meaning would of course not be affected. Yours, Måns...
Måns Björkman
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Jul 3, 2009
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