> Aniye Daniel Andreasson:
>
> > Elliott Lash wrote:
> >
> > > Agaeth hoegin lhaern, cawro mellegad nos i'leiron
> > > es chygrad no herodd nardelchar nenarad,
> > > es thawrnad teger meddryn eluid,
> > > bawl lui nachen tili nathad nos i nerid?
> >
> > Very nice! It looks very Sindariny (as compared to its
> > relative Silindion which looks very Quenyaish).
>
> Hehe, thanks! That's vaguely the point, tho I prefer to call it very Welshy..just
> because it was more consciously designed after all the Welsh material I
> have..and love.
>
> > I've been meaning to ask this about Silindion for some
> > time now. You say that it's not that inspired by Quenya
> > IIRC), but still, there are lots of words that are the
> > same in Silindion and Quenya (at least, that's my impression
> > from the postings on Silindion).
>
> lots of words? hmm...well, with the exception of AIYA (see below), it's mostly
> little particles..and even then, not really. The general sound is
> Quenya-like, since it's phonology is similar, although the phonotactics are
> very different...a lot of syllable types occur in Silindion that are totally
> foreign to Quenya, also, there are alot more clusters and such. The real way
> Quenya influenced Silindion was orthography, and general feel.
>
> > For instance, the greeting _Aiya_ in both langs, being
> > the most obvious example. The _-Cya_ pronominal endings,
> > _ta_ 'that' and _ve_ 'as, while' (which is 'as, like'
> > in Quenya, iirc.), etc.
>
> Aiya?! Greeting? What? where? That's not Silindion..I don't think I've ever written that :)
>
> -Cya pronominal endings..yeah, very dirrectly Quenya inspired, but note it's only
> a genitive ending. TA "that", might as well have been from Indo-European. In
> fact, a lot of ROOTS are Indo-European inspired, or, the semantics of ROOTS
> are Indo-European inspired. Ve "as"..yeah, from Quenya.
>
> Other than that, I dont know any other major words in the things I've shown here
> or in the main lexicon that are the same in Quenya and in Silindion... nore
> "tree" is similar to Quenya nore "land", but..it's not at all inspired from
> it. Nore "tree" comes from *na:rai, an old infinitive from the ROOT *na:
> "grow"
>
> > Is this a conscious move or unconscious or something
> > else? Or have I misunderstood the whole thing?
>
> Actually..I dont even know Quenya...so, much of the Quenya inspired items come from my
> cursory examination of Quenya, several years ago, but it's definitly
> conscious, since I really like Quenya.
>
> and anyone who's interested...visit the website:
>
http://erelion.free.fr/ put together by Christophe Grandsire. :)
>
> Elliott Lash