*Henka Menelya Autas
Silindo yo Lumbar, i *randu, uo tarnet noa lómisse rongo apa andúne. I *ótarie rie nemestea né, an naitie Lumbar mene os Anar lári *lindóre ambela Silindo, ananta lieron úme rinke hententa i randu i nemnet ve erinqua ankalima tinwe. Quelli navir sa véla autas virinye i Veltehem Eleno nyarnanna.
I menel lumba né noa andúnes sinome yasse oian, epetai lá enke men kenei ótarie, mal utúvien vanima emma karina *palantillanen. Ara Silindo i *rando *ránar kanta kénime: Europa, Ganymede, Io ar Callisto, ta ara Lumbar i *rána Titan.
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Eldamo 0.7.8
I’ve release Eldamo 0.7.8.
Main Site: https://eldamo.org/
Mirror Site: http://pfstrack.github.io/eldamo/
This release publishes the Sindarin analysis I’ve done in 2020.
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WED/*WAD
Could vanda “oath, pledge, solemn promise” come from *WAD being a variant of WED "bind"? That could mean that *vasta- "pledge, promise" could be a variant of vesta- which was repurposed as "wed, marry" and derived from BES later in the game.
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On the Q. prosodic lengthening
I would like to address some points of Paul Strack's article on the Quenya prosodic lengthening.
Paul wrote:
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Sindarin Grammar P53: Adverbs
One notable feature of Sindarin is that it often uses adjectives adverbially, as in: noro lim, noro lim Asfaloth “run swift, run swift Asfaloth” (LotR/213). This can occur only when the adjective could conceivably be an attribute of the verb’s subject, as in this example where “swift” is applicable to the subject (Asfaloth). As Tolkien described it:
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Sindarin Grammar P52: Comparative
Comparison is Sindarin is a bit tricky. We have what appears to an intensive or superlative prefix ro- (< rau-) as in rovaed, which may mean “*very shapely” or “*most shapely” (PE17/147); this suffix seems to be the equivalent of Q. ar(i)- which elsewhere was described as “virtually superlative” (PE17/56).
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Sindarin Grammar P51: Adjectives
One notable feature of Sindarin adjectives is that they generally appear after the nouns they modify:
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Sindarin Grammar P50: Interrogative
There only two currently published questions in Sindarin (and none in its conceptual precursors): linnathol? “will you sing?” from 1969 (PE22/167) and man agorech? from the early 1950s (VT50/5), untranslated but almost certainly meaning “what have we done?” using the late-1940s, early-1950s 1st pl. inclusive pronominal suffix -ch (VT50/21-22). These two questions give us a fair amount of information, though.
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Sindarin Grammar P49: Negative
This skips the entry on the Sindarin subjunctive, because I need to revisit Quenya subjunctive first.
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