arimaitë

adjective. skilful, [supremely] skillful, *gifted

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”.

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)