Re: tolkien?
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 13:43 |
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Hmm, not sure about that, since S "Yrch" looks uncannily like umlauting (or
i-affection, take your pick) from an ancestral *uruki (plural) or something
similar. Words of this type (not just in elvish!) have a propensity for
losing interconsonantal vowels and then de-leniting the stop, so uruki -
urki - /urxi/ - yrch! Which always sounds to me like an expression of
disgust. Maybe the origin of "Yukkkh!!" :-)
Mike
> > Funny you should mention this, as I had too much caffeine last night and
was
> > reading the Appendices. The Quenya word for orc is evidently "orch,"
which
> > uses the archaic Quenya spelling.
>
> Maybe it was the little proto-Conlanger in me, but I've never forgotten
> since I first read the books Legolas exclaiming "Yrch!", and the note
> (presumably in the Appendices?) that this was the plural of "Orch".
>
> Amanda
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