Re: tolkien?
| From: | Pavel Iosad <edricson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 15, 2003, 20:57 |
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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
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