Re: Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos

> From: Jörg Rhiemeier
>
> Me govanen!
>
> Tetenton:
>
> > In Nur-ellen:
> >
> > Eru annent nil`g; Eru annat bas.
>
> I forgot to give an interlinear, here it is:
>
> Eru     annent    nil`g;   Eru     annat    bas.
> AGT.God give-PAST tooth.PL AGT.God give-FUT bread
Note the common lexical ancestry of Nur'ellen and amman iar and still in
nathya.

Eru annent nil`g; Eru annat bas.
erue eleth in mathred eranniel; erue eldil in hras eranniel
eru immastradhi anth; eru indras anil

Nur'ellen       amman iar                       nathya
Eru             eru-e                           eru-0
AGT.God         god:ERG                 god:ERG

annent  er-anno-ie-l            anth
give-PAST       AGT:give:AGT/THM:ACTN   an:PAST

> The singular of _nil`g_ is _nel`g_; both _nil`g_ and _bas_ are in
> objective case,
> which is the only case these nouns can occur in because they are
> inanimate.
amman iar has the word "nelgil" which only refers to the incisors.  This
word did not survive into nathya, however.

Both amman iar and nathya have "bas" as well, but this has come to mean a
kind of "cake" having been surplanted by the indigenous "hras/ras" for
bread.

> The word _Eru_ means something like "The One"; it can only be used for a
> monotheistic deity and doesn't have a plural.  "A god" would be _baln_,
> "gods" _beln_, literally "powers".
Similarly, "eru" in amman iar and nathya only refers to "The One", still
called "iluvatar" in amman.  "A god" would be "ainnon".  The word
"balna/balan" means "force, power or energy", but physical rather than
supernatural.  A slight semantic shift here.


David

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