Re: Essence of Elvishness

> > I'm curious why Joerg decided not to make a literal translation of
> > 'Suffixaufnahme'.  I assume that it loses something in translation to
> > something like 'Noun Suffixes', other than being ostensibly a
> > linguistic technical term, and I wonder what that essence is.
>
> The word was loaned into English linguistic vocabulary well before Jörg wrote
> that page.
Ah, my appologies.  I finally found it at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffixaufnahme
There should perhaps be a definition on
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/ if anybody
has contact information for its maintainers.

Kris.