Aga Tentakulus > 07-05-2021, 12:02 AM
-JKP- > 07-05-2021, 12:57 AM
(06-05-2021, 11:03 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
If you are suggesting or arguing for a different letter than "ll" due to this dramatic height difference in the ascenders, there is always the possibility of "adder" (as in a snake) rather than "aller".
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 02:03 AM
(07-05-2021, 12:57 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-05-2021, 11:03 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you are suggesting or arguing for a different letter than "ll" due to this dramatic height difference in the ascenders, there is always the possibility of "adder" (as in a snake) rather than "aller".
It would be highly unusual for a figure-8 style "d" to be angular or for the lower loop to be so tiny, but I like your suggestion to try to look at it from a different point of view, possibly as a different letter entirely (I'm not sure which one, but it's strange that the ascenders are so short).
Searcher > 07-05-2021, 08:33 AM
-JKP- > 07-05-2021, 09:23 AM
Koen G > 07-05-2021, 10:55 AM
(06-05-2021, 11:42 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So a word akin to German "Maler", then? Is there a medieval dialect in which a form of such a word might have been written as "mallier"?
nablator > 07-05-2021, 11:25 AM
geoffreycaveney > 07-05-2021, 02:01 PM
(07-05-2021, 11:25 AM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.mallier, mal lier and aller all make sense in French (langue d'oïl):
mallier / malier: packhorse (cheval de charge)
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"mal" can be used as a pejorative prefix:
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or an adverb:
mal lier: badly tie (infinitive)
aller: go (infinitive)
nablator > 07-05-2021, 02:39 PM
(07-05-2021, 02:01 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Could it make any sense to use the infinitive "aller" ("to go") as the second word in such a statement? If so, what kind of statement could that be?
-JKP- > 07-05-2021, 06:57 PM