Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

 Sally Caves <scaves@...> writes:

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> >
> > Why would he make it from any language? Although there are instances of
> INFLUENCE, he didn't MAKE his languages from any real world source. (Nit
> picking words I know! :)). Anyways, I'm going to ask the etymology of
> crebain (plural of carban? corban? anyone?), on the Elfling list, see if
> anyone over there knows. I can't find it in the Etymologies.
>
> I know he didn't MAKE it, but I would argue for subconscious influence.
> It just sounds so suspiciously derivative from L. corvinus  > crobin  with
> metathesis (I don't know what the word would be in its singular form) >
> crebain?

singular: craban


>
> God knows, if I know anything about conlanging, and I've done it for thirty
> years with an ever increasing sense of sophistication and wariness, one does
> subconsciously
> borrow from other languages, thinking one has produced something original.
> To wit:
> my "belreg," which is the word for "combat," "battle," but which I now
> realize I
> stole from Tolkien's "balrog" long years ago.  It only just occurred to me,
> now that
> I've seen the film and am reading the books all over again.

Yes! exactly! Lol, like in Silindion one of the words for moon is Silma whose
general sound I most definitely took from Quenya. Another word: Lare, I
probably took from Welsh, or Breton.

Elliott