Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 4:25 |
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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unpublished Silmarillion much earlier.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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