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Subject: Re: Introduction
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>In _Quettaparma Quenyanna_, the allative would signify that this is a
>wordlist *to* Quenya, an English-Quenya dictionary, as opposed to a
>wordlist *from* Quenya, a Quenya-English dictionary (_Quettaparma
>Quenyallo_). If you just want to say "Quenya Dictionary" with no such
>distinction, _Quenya Quettaparma_ would do.

Yeah, I think you're right. I was just thinking a lot stricter, that the
allative should only be used for a real movement, but I guess problems
raise that can be avoided by a less strict approach (for example, how to
distinguish Q to E from E to Q dictionaries, as above).

Jeroen