Re: Finally, Tshirt

Am 10/12 04:54  Christophe Grandsire yscrifef:
> En réponse à andrew <hobbit@...>:
>
> > Far too late to be included but I found time to complete it:
> >
> > Comathath ill morth llingwistig, ffingeth yn llinghedig
> >
> > fight.2p the.m death linguistic, invent.2p a language.
> >
>
> Well, I'll be damned! It's nearly completely parallel to my Reman version:
>
> Kombat i delecho i lengar: feng leng!
>
> And I could have made it even more parallel by using mur: death, instead of
> delecho: destruction. The most impressive thing is the resemblance between
> "feng" and "ffingeth". "Feng" is the imperative of fengri: to imagine (it comes
> from Latin IIRC), does your "ffingeth" have the same origin?
>
I would imagine that it does, from fingere, to invent.  I found it
listed on one of my backup word lists.

- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

Death is something you never live to regret.