xiphias: (Default)
xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2012-07-29 04:02 pm

Is there any Latin root more versatile than "-ject"?

Reject -- throw back
Deject -- throw down
Project -- throw forward
Subject -- throw under
Conjecture -- thing thrown together
Abject -- throw away
Inject -- throw in
Eject -- throw out
Object -- throw against

I dunno. My brain just asks these things sometimes.
ext_12246: (Dr.Whomster)

Re: tengwar

[identity profile] thnidu.livejournal.com 2012-07-31 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Although usually it's one or the other direction consistently for a given language/mode. Quenya words are generally vowel-final, and therefore (saith the Professor; the books are downstairs & I ain't going down for them now) the vowel follows the consonant it's written on (CV), while Sindarin, generally consonant-final, goes the other way (VC). The Tolkien Soc'y of America's English mode is VC, which is reasonable for English. The mode I developed for Esperanto is CV, which works well for Esperanto. Of course there's no reason a mode can't have structured exceptions (and in fact my Esperanto mode does).