Quenya 

winicë

baby

winicë (also wincë), noun "baby", also used in children's play for "little finger" or "little toe" (VT48:6). Synonyms winë, winimo. In Exilic Quenya, this word would appear as *vinicë*, vincë; compare the related word winya > vinya "young, new". Since the diminutive ending -icë descends from -iki(VT48:16), winicë may have the stem-form winici**-.

wine

noun. baby, child not yet fully grown

winë (stem *wini-, given the primitive form ¤wini) noun "baby, child not yet fully grown", "little-one", also used in children's play for "little finger" or "little toe" (VT46:10, 26, VT48:6, 16). Synonyms win(i)cë, winimo. In Exilic Quenya, this word would appear as *vinë; compare the related word winya > vinya "young, new".

hinyë

noun. baby

A word for a “baby” in rough notes on Elvish finger names (VT47/27), probably some kind of diminutive formation from √KHIN “child”. It had a variant hintil that is clearly specific to fingers only: = √KHIN + √TIL “✱baby finger, (lit.) child tip”.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, it is probably better to use one of the baby words from the more finished versions of these notes, such as vinimo.

Derivations

Variations

  • hintil ✧ VT47/27
  • hinye ✧ VT47/27

winimo

baby

winimo noun "baby", "little-one", used in children's play for "little finger" or "little toe" (VT47:10, VT48:6, 16). Synonyms winë, win(i)cë. In Exilic Quenya, this word would appear as *vinimo; compare the related word winya > vinya "young, new".

Sindarin 

gwinig

noun. "litte baby"

Sindarin [VT/48:6,16-17] Group: SINDICT. Published by

gwinig

noun. little finger (Elvish play-name used by and taught to children)

Sindarin [VT/48:6,16-17] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Qenya 

tet(ta)

noun. baby

A word in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s glossed “baby” with short and long variants tet and tetta (PE21/19).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tyetl “a tiny baby” under the early root ᴱ√TYETE “give suck” (QL/50), a word that also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “babe” (PME/50). This became ᴱQ. tetta “baby” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/135), and finally tet/tetta in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s as noted above. There are no signs of this word thereafter.

Variations

  • tet ✧ PE21/19; PE21/24
  • tetta ✧ PE21/19
Qenya [PE21/19; PE21/24] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

puthli

noun. baby

A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “baby” (GL/64), probably derived from the early root ᴱ√PU(HU) “generate” (QL/75).

Cognates

  • Eq. putse “baby, child”

Derivations

Early Quenya

tetta

noun. baby

Early Quenya [PE16/135] Group: Eldamo. Published by