Canvassing your thoughts how you guys would express in Quenya the adverb/adjective late, as in 'you are late' or 'late night'.
EQ has the adjective telwa glossed as 'last, late'. Also the root TELES was devised to yield the name for the Teleri - thus associated with 'lagging behind' which fits the meaning. However, the later Quenya derivatives all seem rather associated with 'end, conclusion, last in series'.
What do you think?
Paul Strack Nov 04, 2015 (15:59)
Tamas Ferencz Nov 04, 2015 (16:56)
perhaps, yes. The question is whether the later adjectives (tella, telda) can carry the meaning of 'late' or should one "resurrect" telwa for this specific meaning?
Björn Fromén Nov 04, 2015 (23:32)
ܤܡܝ ܦܠܕܢܝܘܤ Nov 04, 2015 (23:35)
2) Work with LEB/LEM or lenda- etc. (in light of Latin; qq. Germ. *sainiz : ON seinn ‘slow, slack’, OEng. sǽne ‘slow, dull, sluggish’).
3) E.g. hampa > *hampië > *hampiénen ?
Tamas Ferencz Nov 05, 2015 (00:01)
Tamas Ferencz Nov 05, 2015 (08:55)
hampa is actually quite good! I could see it develop a sense of lateness if this were a natural language.
Tamas Ferencz Nov 05, 2015 (08:58)
Александр Запрягаев Nov 11, 2015 (20:00)
Tamas Ferencz Nov 12, 2015 (08:42)
I like that.