Lexical entry “ýneg” by Eldamo Import created 3 weeks ago

ýneg

cardinal. twelve

The Sindarin word for “eleven” in notes from the late 1960s was ýneg or yneg derived from ✶yūnekē “twelve = two sixes” (VT47/41; VT48/6, 9). Tolkien also considered yneb or inib as more direct cognates of yunquë “twelve”, but that seems to have been a transient idea (VT48/8).

Conceptual Development: Notes from the late 1950s had S. {iug} > imp under Q. yunquë “twelve”, but these forms were deleted (PE17/95-96).