Re: Tolkien's rootwords / Progress of Ambrian

Quoting Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>:

> +ALQ-=======================================+AGA-
> +AHw- THIS MAIL IS IN UTF-7 BECAUSE OF SUCH +AHw-
> +AHw- FANCY LETTERS LIKE N-ACUTE            +AHw-
> +AGA-=======================================+ALQ-
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm back from the holidays since yesterday.
> One evening, I thought of vocabulary for Ayeri and root
> words. Why did ol' Tolkien AFAIK give C-C-C roots for his
> Elvish langs, although none of them was (also AFAIK)
> Semitic style?
I'm not sure what you're refering to. Most attested Quendian roots are of the
shape CVC; other's include CCVC, VC and CV, but the only consonant-only one
seems to be the pronominal root *S.

There are instances when the stem vowel (_sundóma_) displaced from it's normal
position, as in _alcar__<*_ak'lar-_, from *KALA, but this is no more "Semitic"
than is vowels jumping around in IE ablaut patterns.

JRRT's Dwarvish _is_ "Semitic", however.

                                                    Andreas