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THalls
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Post nasal mutation confusion
on: April 01, 2015 06:27
Hi,

please help me with this confusion:

I have found 2 different approaches of nasal mutation in 2 different places (one of which being Thorsten Renk Sindarin course, the other one very structured course inspired also by this site):

1. nasal mutation changes "d" into "n", but "dr" stays the same (Thorsten).
2. nasal mutation changes "d" into "n".

so, two "wolf" plurals emerge:

"in droeg" and "i nroeg" (for this latter "n" is suppressed)

why am i tempted to "feel" the second one is the good one?

can you tell me which of them is correct?

len hannon.
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on: April 14, 2015 06:33
Why are you tempted to "feel" that i nroeg is the good one? I think it's because in i nroeg mutation seems to occur, while in in droeg there's obviously no mutation.

If you look at CoE's sindarin mutations chart you'll see: DR → IN DR (no mutation nor assimilation – thus, droegin droeg), just like in Thorsten Renk's sindarin course. Personally, I would go with in droeg, but maybe i nroeg can also be correct, if neither DR → IN DR or DR → I NR are attested (regarding nasal mutation, this is the case with L → I L vs. L → IN L).

[Edited on 04/14/2015 by Varyalener]
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THalls
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on: April 20, 2015 09:23
I guess that's the reason...
thank you for the reply.
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