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Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 4:25
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 > (m�r�chi - 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, Ea was first published in the Earthsea books, although Tolkien had coined the phrase in the unpublished Silmarillion much earlier.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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