Re: May you all...
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 7, 2002, 7:57 |
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taliesin wrote
>IIRC JRRT associated a particular sound-shape (needs a better word for
>this) with the meaning 'fast, quick' quite early, and it followed him
>through various languages. Naturally, I can't remember what shape it
>was, but it isn't what *I* associate with fast, quick; yet another
>proof that your art is my trash and vice versa.
/lint/
Appears in Quenya as _lintë_ "swift (pl)" - singular presumeably *_linta_,
tho' not to my knowledge anywhere attested.
In this case, my _lamatyáve_ ("sound-taste" as JRRT would've said) agrees
more with Tolkien's than with yours - /lint/ does feel like something small
and quick to me.
Andreas
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