Re: May you all...
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 9, 2002, 11:27 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
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> But the lint- stem dates back to the Naffarin period, which IIRC
> (which stands for "if I recall correctly", for whoever asked)
> predates his contact with Finnish: Naffarin is a sort of
> pseudo-Spanish.
>
In fact, it dates back from the Nevbosh period (look at the site Ardalambion in
the article about nevbosh, you'll see that the lexicon has two words based on
LINT, namely lint: "quick, clever, nimble" and faclint: "'make-lint', teach"
(nice derivation :)) ). At this period (Tolkien was about 10), he could hardly
have heard of Finnish. The only languages he knew a bit about then besides
English were French and Spanish (and maybe Italian). He he, what I like about
Nevbosh is the word woc: "cow", which is simply cow spelled the other way
round, but the spelling suddenly connects the word with it's translation in
Romance languages "vache", "vaca", "vacca", derived from
Latin "vaca" /waka/ :)) . How said that Tolkien didn't have humour :)) .
Christophe.
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