Re: May you all...
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 6, 2002, 16:51 |
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* Michael Poxon said on 2002-02-06 16:47:06 +0100
> Siella (forever) is a word I quite unashamedly borrowed from Finnish,
Whoa! Taruven for 'always' is {sella}! No, it isn't borrowed because I
didn't know about siella...
Hmm... {syella} would be 'much snow, quite snowy'...
> I figure if Tolkien could lift 'tul-' and 'tie' ('to come' and 'road'
> respectively) I might be permitted this small amount of shoplifting.
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.
t.
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