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31277
Aiya, thanks for correction, even probably it will not change the sense of translation... but for love of precision... ;)) Fradeve Virgilio ... Da: A.W.T....
Fradeve Virgilio
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31278
Hi, I'm trying to make a little translation for a friend to write this sentence on a bow : One bow to rule them all Minë cú/quinta an turë te ilya I think...
Berylla Baggins
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31279
Aiya! Thanks for the translation of the finnish hymn, found it nice as I have a finnish grandmother ( and hopefully someday I'll learn Finnish!). Do u have any...
Kathlyn Wiltshire
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Mar 3, 2005
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31280
... the 'one xxx to rule them all' sentence has variously (is this a word?) been translated many times in Quenya... it sounds ok to me (and i think i have seen...
Gildor Inglorion
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Mar 3, 2005
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31281
Maybe this would also work: _Minë cú/quinga turien/?herien te ilyë_. That is, I'd rather use a gerund in the dative than a "simple" infinitive to express...
Dave
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Mar 3, 2005
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31282
I used to have amongst my 'Favourites' the URL of a comparative timeline of the development of Sindarin and Welsh. Unfortunately, my computer crashed (big...
limielwen
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Mar 3, 2005
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31283
I'm trying to translate this sentence: "Saura Feanáro ahyanë rimbar engwi lambessë, mal lemyas anvanya lambion." and I've found some little dificult in...
Nereruo/Gabriel Nepom...
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Mar 3, 2005
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31285
Hi everyone! Matt from St. Paul, MN here... I'm looking to translate the following phrase, can anyone help? I'm trying to translate the following English...
matthew_nowaczewski
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Mar 3, 2005
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31286
I think I'm now pretty close, but could use a feedback... "God's Treasures: Sam, Emilia" (Sam: God Listened) (Emilia: Rival) "Harmar Eruva: Erulasto, Cotume"...
matthew_nowaczewski
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Mar 4, 2005
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31287
... with the possessive ending -o: Eruo ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôç äùñåÜí...
Gildor Inglorion
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Mar 4, 2005
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I received my copy of VT47 yesterday, and I couldn't help reading through all of it in one go - there is a lot of interesting material, maybe not so much in...
Thorsten Renk
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The research I've done, says that "va" would be possessive..."Eruva" Could this be right also, or am I off?...
matthew_nowaczewski
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Mar 4, 2005
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31290
... There is also _lhewig_, the back-formed singular of _lhaw_ "ears". -- /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se ...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Mar 5, 2005
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... Don't you think that _-ig_ denotes one of a pair, e.g. _lhewig_, _lhaw_ "ears"? Cf. Maltese: _bajd_ (eggs) vs. _bajda_ (egg)! Edhil...
A.W.T.
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Mar 5, 2005
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31292
umm a small question this time, can a pronoun like "I" or "you" be suffix to the word "and"? i.e. Meldon : Mainen lenna eselye? (how are you?) Tauro : mára,...
baphometboy1
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Mar 5, 2005
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31293
Hi I'm pretty new at all of this. So please excuse my ignorance. I'm interested in the numerical system and calendar year. But I'm not find a whole lot of...
Laura
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Mar 5, 2005
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31294
Thanks to everyone ! ... I find it on a Italian-Quenya dictionary, a file taken from the book written by Kloczko. May be it is just a mistake in the Italian...
Berylla Baggins
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31295
... Although we know that the numbers go 'backwards', there is no guess about how the dates are formatted the best sample i can think of is KL where we have ...
Gildor Inglorion
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31296
... yes.. i suggest using the Ardalambion wordlists which are of course recently updated :) ____________________________________________________________ Do You...
Gildor Inglorion
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Mar 5, 2005
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31297
... It surely does, but it can still be diminutive in origin. Languages do that kind of thing you know. E.g. all Romance languages have a word for 'ear' that...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Mar 6, 2005
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31298
... Oh sure, it can - if Prof. Tolkien decided it to be like that ;-) If it's actually meant to be a diminutive, speculation why it is so might go on: e.g....
A.W.T.
aolung
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Mar 6, 2005
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31299
I apologize if this has been asked in the recent past. Can someone tell me if the (late?) sources have something concerning the etymology of the (obviously...
elhath *
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Mar 6, 2005
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31300
And don't forget we finally see the Quenya cognate of the Sindarin adverb _mae, sc. _mai_. That should make lots of Quenyists happy don't you think? *Arthur ...
Arthur Boccaccio
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Mar 6, 2005
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31301
David Salo states in his book that "the basic word order of a verbal sentence" in Sindarin is "Verb - Subject (-Object) or VS(O)", the appearance of an object...
aelindis
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Mar 6, 2005
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... concerning the ... pronoun _se_? ... useful to ... squat...). ;] ... _te_? "taio"? "tieo"? ... I would use *teva, treating the undeclined "adjectival"...
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Mar 6, 2005
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... wrote: I don't think "ar" can take a suffixed pronoun, especially one beginning with l (the combination -rl- is not found in attested Quenya, as far as I...
quildarener
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31304
That sounds very interesting. I'm not a quenya expert, but very interested in it and I'm studing computer science. Can you list the words you are interested to...
choken
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Mar 6, 2005
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31305
Hello, i haven't written to you for a long time and this time i am writing to you to show you something i made in 3ds max inspired by Tolkien's great work.you...
laerwen_celebrinel
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Hi again, I'm searching for a way to express the word "example". I've been trying to find i the wordlists. I have also tried synonyms like; model, standard,...
choken
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Mar 6, 2005
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31307
... Maybe *_ya(r)tanna_, after Finnish _esi+merkki_? Or *_tacat_ (pro *tacil?) / *_atangwa_ for "affirmation, proof"? (< root TAK) ... *snif* *_inicwe_/*_ini_...
elhath *
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