Re: basic morphemes of a loglang

Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:

> > It is not obvious to me that a tree is "something that grows" (kreskajho
> > in Esperanto, IIRC),
>
> ?? Esperanto for 'tree' is _arbo_
>
> > although it is so in many conlangs;
>
> Such as?  All the conlangs I've met actually have a word for tree.  Even
> Dutton included
> one among his 491 root words: bo
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".

                                                              Andreas