Re: Cein

I wrote:
>
>Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>> > I saw your mail. I'll ask the sages on Elfling, me thinks.
>>
>>Ah, that would be great. I'm curious as to what they'll
>>say. Surely, someone must have looked into this.
>
>From the replies yet, there does not seem to be a consensus on the origin
>of
>_ui in adjectives. In _annui_, David Salo thinks it to be form older
>_-uuyaa_ (the whole PE word being *anduuyaa). In other cases it may be from
>_-aayaa_, the origin of Quenya _-ea_. However, this requires final _aai_ to
>change differently from _aai_ in other positions or as the only vowel of a
>word, where it becomes _oe_ (eg _gaayaa_>_gaai_>_goe)
When I think about it, it must've been rather been
_gaayaa_>_gooia_>_gooi_>_goe_, but that makes little real difference.

                                             Andreas
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