Él síla lúmena vomentienguo!
I have found myself embarked on a hopeless crusade to reconstruct Telerin into a functional language, and one major roadblock at the moment is the syllabication of [s] when preceding a consonant.
I have found examples of it becoming syllabic and thus developing a preceding vowel in both Quenya (✶skalā > (archaic) Q. †ixal “a cast shadow”) and in Sindarin (✶skalā > S. esgal “cast shadow”), so the syllabication and subsequent development of a preceding vowel seems to have been a universal development in elvish tongues. In Quenya the vowel developed was usually [i] and in Sindarin it was [e].
So my question is: Is there any logic or reason to what kind of vowel develops in front of a syllabic [s]? If there is basically no logic, then is there nothing to be done to determine the Telerin equivalent of Q. †ixal and S. esgal?
Also, if and when this question proves too difficult to answer, might anyone know where to enquire next?
