Re: "The Enshadowed Wood", Rokbeigalmki, and Proto-Elven

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:20:49 -0400 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> _Tauree_ is indeed the word for "(great) forrest". From the Q and ON
> forms
> we can reconstruct *_phuinee_ as the word for "(deep) shadow)". In a
> compound that'd shorten to *_-phuine_. *_Spaaroo_ could be an
> agental formation from SPAR "hunt".
> Then, how to piece this together? For the "Hunter-Shadows" part,
> *_spaaroophuine_ looks quite good I think. We have _Taure Huineeva_
> for
> "Forest of Shadows" in Q, so I'll use a reconstructed form of the
> possessive
> ending -va, namely *_-waa_. According to one of Tolkien's notes, the
> pl
> variant -iva was a Q invention, so presumably we can't distinguish
> between "of shadow" and "of shadows" in PQ.
> So, something like _Tauree Spaaroophuineewaa_ "Forest of
> Hunter-Shadow" (in
> all likelihood, the long e of *phuinee will revert here).
>                                                          Andreas
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Wow, thanks!
I spent who knows how long looking at Ardalambion last night, and could
barely make sense of anything... although in the list of words and roots,
i couldn't find SPAR, and i have no idea where i got ahold of my lists or
words back years ago.
So how would that be pronounced, and where would the accent be?

something like:
[tawre: spa:ro:p<h>ujne:wa:]   ?

Rokbeigalmki-ized that would turn into something like:
Taorei Sparofoineiwa -- [tawrej sparoPOjnejwa]

And then _foinei_ would become the word for "bad shadow" in Rokbeigalmki.


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