18-07-2007, 13:39
A noter le cas tordu donné par Tolkien dans les letters (n°347) d'un cas duel sindarin perdu :<p><div class="refTexte">The S. duals of nouns or pronouns early became obsolete, except in written works. A case occurs in <i>Orgalaoad</i> 'Day of the Two Trees', but since these S. nouns were all derived from Quenya names of the 6-day week, brought from Valinor, it may be due to an attempt to imitate Q. duals, such as <i>ciriat</i> 2 ships. In any case -d was later lost, and so we have <i>argonath</i> 'the group of (two) noble stones instead of *<i>argonad</i>.<div class="refTitre">The Letters of JRRT</div></div><p>Difficile aussi de savoir ce qu'il avait derrière la tête quand il a imaginé ça, raisons grammaticales, euphoniques ou phonologiques, comme dit Bertrand... <p>Ben