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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes  | Message 9 of 12 25 October 2008 at 6:57am | IP Logged | ||
Actually, it came from Quenya. I don't know if the Quenya root is based on a Scandinavian word but here is the Primitive Elvish definition and form of the root which is essentially identical to the Quenya
BTW, in case anyone is wondering why the dwarves called their home "Moria", they didn't. It was called so by the Elves after the dawrves unleashed a great evil within and left the whole city. Edited by amphises on 25 October 2008 at 7:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 11 of 12 15 November 2008 at 11:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Neos, I'm quite sceptical of some of the etymologies you have given. Are you sure that 'mors' really comes from the Greek 'moros' (some online-dictionaries I consulted didn't say so... See for example http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mors )
Latin and Greek are closely related Indo-European languages and there are many similar words that are no borrowings but derive from the same IE root. For such a basic word as 'death' that is what one would expect... Edited by Marc Frisch on 16 November 2008 at 5:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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