Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings

...And if memory serves me correct (that'd be a first!) wasn't "ea" the name
of some primal deity in - I think -  Babylonian creation myth?
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From: "andrew" <hobbit@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings


On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:

> Curiously, my oldest language started out being known as Ea (the verb
> "to be", shamelessly stolen from Eru Illuvatar's world-creating
> utterance in The Silmarillion), but I ended up deciding that was the
> name of the universe and inventing an ethnonym for the language
> (mrchi - soon maybe to be known as mirexu, I keep waffling on the
> sound change, but really, all those derived nouns in -ia are way way
> too Greek).  So maybe this is a pattern?
>
I thought that there might be a tradition relating to Ea as it also
appears in Ursula le Guin's Earthsea.  It is the first piece of land
created out of the original waters.  According to Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89a , Ea was first published in the
Earthsea books, although Tolkien had coined the phrase in the
unpublished Silmarillion much earlier.  Parallel creation!

- andrew.

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