arimaitë
adjective. skilful, [supremely] skillful, *gifted
Elements
Word Gloss ar(i)- “superlative prefix; good, superlative prefix; good; [ᴱQ.] intensive” maitë “handy, skillful; having a hand, handed; shapely, handy, skillful, [ᴹQ.] skilled; [Q.] shapely, well-shaped; (as suffix) having a hand, handed” Variations
- arimaite ✧ PE17/162
arimaitë
skillful
arimaitë adj. "skillful" (PE17:162)
ravaed
adjective. skillful
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phinya
adjective. skillful
Derivations
- ᴹ√PHIN “nimbleness, skill” ✧ Ety/PHIN
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PHIN > phinya [pʰinja] > [ɸinja] ✧ Ety/PHIN
mabol
adjective. skillful
A word glossed “skilful” in Quenya Notes from 1957 (QN), apparently a combination of maitë “-handed” with the superlative prefix ar(i)- (PE17/162). Elsewhere maitë by itself was glossed “skilful” (VT47/6), so perhaps this word was more intensive, meaning “✱supremely skill”.
Neo-Quenya: In the “Neologism of the Day” (NotD) series on the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server as posted on 2023-05-30, Raccoon suggested that arimaitë might also mean “✱gifted”.