Re: basic morphemes of a loglang
| From: | Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 29, 2003, 21:00 |
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Ray Brown had written:
Such as? All the conlangs I've met actually have a word for tree.
Even Dutton included one among his 491 root words: bo
Andreas Johansson wrote:
I don't have my Tolkien books with me, but of the two Quenya words
for "tree",_orne_ means etymologically "tall thing", and _alda_, IIRC,
"growth".
I write:
PIE (the granddaddy of Indo-European languages) had a word for
trees with strong wood (such as oak) and a word for trees with
flexible wood (such as beech) but no generic word for trees - right?
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