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As for Cadhinor, in Greek PONOS means "pain" and PEOS means "penis"

Oh I also wonder about some Cadhinor words which passed into Kebreni but their Methaiun form is not given. For example adnedu < admettan aladaḣ < aluatas demedu < demettan kaadau < aletes caedel lureḣ < lures lyḣ < leus From those I can deduce that the Methaiun forms were either identical to Cadhino...

In the Kebreni lexicon, some Methaiun words given as their origins, seem suspiciously Kebreni rather than Methaiun For example, the verbs for die and follow are given as fonu < fonu and faru < faru for both. However the majority of the verbs show that the ending -u was added later, only in Kebreni; ...

So shes/chen has two possible origins?

I thought that "or perhaps" means that two options (yetu and the s+c ligature) coexisted for some time, until yetu dominated and replaced the ligature

No, shes is a reversed chen, which itself is a borrowing from Cuezi yetu

These replaced the ligature I am referring to (or so I know)

The article on the Verdurian alphabet says that the letters for sh and ch were derived from a more ancient Cuezi letter.

Before this introduction, for this sound a ligature of s+c was used.

Do we know the form of this ligature? did it evolve in some other letter in the other scripts?

In greek "skouros" means dark or deep-colored. This surname is no surprise

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A friend needs to translate "Life is beautiful" in as many languages and conlangs possible. I decided to help him with the Almean languages. ;) My biggest concern is that I can't be sure whether beautiful in these languages ought to be understood strictly as visual beauty. The lexicons however don't...

It has not been proven whether telepathy exists or not in our world. Perhaps neurology has not discovered something on the brain that would support telepathy, but there is (dubious) evidence that it does exist AFAIK studies and experiments are performed for decades but still the academic society has...

Wow impressive job!!!! I thought that perhaps GE would allow such modification but I thought that making it in 2d would be easier (and more available) for others to browse However your planet is patched with big red X's... I guess for some reason the images weren't downloaded properly You did all th...

Hmm I registered there and played a bit. Unfortunately it doesn't allow to combine images... all you can do is upload a single image and annotate it. So it's not useful for the intended experiment

I must find a more useful application

Update: Found something! A middle-earth map with further information!!

http://lifehacker.com/software/google-m ... 213627.php

Should we start Almea?

Recently, I found a site (sorry, no url) that provided a Google maps interface that for browsing Middle-earth. The zooming was made possible, by overlaying bitmap maps of varying detail. I don't know how the software can be obtained but I would be interested to practice with the maps of Almea. We co...

On to the second lesson My problem here are the words in -om, which are OV in origin. It's strange, but the Cadhinor lexicon had worryingly few profession entries. So I invented malspakhes (mal+spakhe+es) and khutor+ion The farmer says 'yes', but not in an affirmative tone, which we know how to expr...

I once thought translating the Cadhinor lesson into Verdurian, its original language... I find it a bit um... strange... to translate it into Cadhinor :) Anyway, here is a translation for the first lesson . The ambiguous points are in italic (usually Verdurian expressions replaced by Cadhinor equiva...

A doomed discussion thread it seems. Anyway, I just thought of something new. I thought practicing Cadhinor and the best way thinkable is to translate known Verdurian texts into Cadhinor. And the best texts would be those from the course :) If nobody wants to bother, I would do it myself and just sh...

zompist wrote:The Cadhinorians didn't want to simply invent new letters; instead they used alternative letterforms.

Which brings another question.. is the origin of the original Verdurian letters traceable? Are they also from Cuezian, or from another more modern realm? or are totally original?

I was a bit troubled with some letters of Cadhinor. I guess the Cadhinor letter Hek is derived from the letter Xue. Initially I thought the bar above was a vuae, but it seems it's just the 'eyebrow'. If I am wrong, what is its origin? Furthermore, I was surprised to observe that the letter Choth is ...

I had a question also and I thought putting it here rather than a new topic Since magic works, and supernatural is true in Almea, are the 'supernatural' beings also actual? Let's pretend that (since some of us are Christians) Eledh is the Christian True God. But Perhaps also some of the gods of cert...

I thought th Ilii numbers have diminished, they have been reclusive, withdrawn and play no important part in the history of Almea any more, hence them being not dominant (which is not equal to 'superior')

Or is it Tolkien speaking?

So I take it they have no wives with them in the voyage to interbreed with (unless all Elenicoi women wanted to marry uesti men )

I guess the Elenicoi were all male humans... I find it hard to believe that women of that date could take such a voyage. Even if they were, I also guess they were all monks and nuns So I take it that all the Elenicoi died out in the next generation and there are no Terran humans or Almea. Or not...?...

Verdurian et al certainly have many influences from real world languages. Verdurian could be an Indoeuropean language, since it has many romance elements in both grammar and vocabulary I don't expect an in-universe explanation (since Almea belongs to another unverse, everything is possible and laws ...

In the proto-eastern page we have this table (it's the first table in the article) Cuêzi Caďinor Axunašin Obenzayet Lufaša bāsi faucir šagi hägia fä bērede veredes šeirvi häraziz fei ferêde vehend šejiz ha?äd fe For some reason, the word I have bolded, appears with a question mark instead of a middl...