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Re: tolkien?

From:Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2003, 20:57
Hello,

> It's said somewhere (unfortunately don't have the books at > hand to check out > exactly where) that the Common Speech, lacking /x/ adopted > Sindarin [x] as /h/ > initially and medially, but as /k/ finally,
That'd be UT, Note 49 to _Cirion and Eorl_. (sorry I can't give the pages: mine is a non-standard edition)
> so it would seem > that _orc_ is a CS loan from Sindarin. (It's also an OE word meaning > something like "demon"; > coincidence, as they say in Middle-earth!)
Met in Beowulf, anyway (orcneas, something like 'corpses') Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth --Welsh saying

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