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

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Latin _corvus_ , "raven," is also from this root.
Tolkien actually spent some time thinking about this word.  In
one of his letters, where he is talking about semantic shift
(e.g. YELP 'speak proudly' > YELP 'make dog noise'), he mentions
that if you put CORV- through the First Consonant Shift, it
comes out HARP-.  Now "harp" happens to be one of those words
unique to Germanic (the "arpa" forms in Romance lgs are borrowings),
unless one can conceive of a semantic shift "crow" > "harp"!

> From which
> of his invented languages is crebain supposed to be?  I'm getting back
> in touch with all of this after years!
Sindarin.

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