Re: Elvish ideas ...

Quoting Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>:

> Sgrìobh Andreas...
>
> > I've put up a little piece on Meghean at:
> > http://andjo.free.fr/conlang/meghean.html
>
> I like it! There does seem to be some Gaelic influence on the
> orthography. :)
I actually don't know anything much of how Gaelic orthography works. I've
deliberately given it the kind of quasi-celtic look common among Elves
in "standard" high fantasy, but that's about it.

As everybody intrested in things Elvih probably have figured out by now, the
definite forms were inspired by the realization that the Sindarin definite
article is rather superfluous, as long as the affection of the following noun
is kept.

> Actually, the thing that really made me smile was the fact that
> your word for castle, creach, is a Gaelic word meaning "plunder,
> pillage, ravage, spoil, loot, etc." -- there's a very common
> exclamation "mo chreach!" (lit. "my ruination!") which
> corresponds more or less to the English "my goodness!"
You say? How's this Gaelic word pronounced? The same?

It may interest you to know, then, that _creach_ was the very first Meghean
word I invented. I essentially designed the restrictions on syllable structure
on it ...

> I'm looking forward to seeing more.
I'll see what I can do ... :-)

                                                 Andreas