User talk:Rua/Beowulf in Proto-Germanic
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Rua in topic Would you ever consider doing this in Proto-Indo-European?
Impressive
[edit]This is really impressive and a good read, good work! :) --Lundgren8 (t · c) 16:13, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
transliteration
[edit]- Excellent work! Do you think it would be possible to provide a transliteration from Roman to Runic Unicode?
wikipedia:Runes#Elder Futhark (2nd to 8th centuries)wikipedia:Runic (Unicode block)Nicole Sharp (talk) 01:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)- PS: It would be nice to see more runes available altogether on Wiktionary for old Germanic languages. Most transliteration from Roman to Runic is one-to-one so it should be possible to create a bot to place automated transliterations for the Old English, Old Norse, and Proto-Germanic words on Wiktionary. Most Proto-Germanic is reconstructed anyway, but if it did have a written form, it would likely have been Runic not Roman. Nicole Sharp (talk) 02:02, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Would you ever consider doing this in Proto-Indo-European?
[edit]Are you capable of it? 2607:FEA8:8400:1E9D:84E1:69FB:1AC6:E67C 01:55, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- I think it's fundamentally impossible to do it the way I did. To make the Proto-Germanic version I basically used the same words, but in an earlier form. However, a lot of these words didn't exist until Proto-Germanic, so they are not reconstructable for PIE. Another, more esthetic problem is that PIE had variable accent, which destroys the alliteration. —Rua (mew) 12:32, 29 March 2019 (UTC)