Re: some Proto-Quendic grammar (was Re: creating words (...))

Hallo!

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:52:02 -0800,
Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:

> --- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, the term "Quendic" is only a provisional
> > designation,
> > a leftover from the early days of the project
> > when Nur-ellen
> > was a descendant of Sindarin; indeed, I have
> > changed it from
> > "Quendian" to "Quendic" in order to set it off
> > from Tolkien's
> > term.  But I consider it too close to
> > "Quendian" still, and
> > I shall change it in the future.
>
> Perhaps "Atlantic" or something suitably
> geographical. After all, they fared all over the
> Atlantic Ocean, no?
They did.

>      Perhaps not as the native
> name, but as the IE branch N-E etc. belong to?
The name "Atlantic" is, AFAIK, already taken by a family
spoken in western Africa.  I considered "Hesperonesian",
but that is already taken, too, namely as a (not very
common) alternative designation of Western Malayo-
Polynesian.  I think I will go for a name based on
the self-designation of the Elves, the same way as
"Kartvelian", "Bantu" and "Turkic" are based on
self-designations, but for that, I must find out
what the Elves call themselves.

Greetings,

Jörg.