Quenya 

cenya

verb. see, perceive

Quenya [PE 22:103, 115; PE 22:155] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

cenya

adjective. *perceptive

Element in

  • Q. fantarcenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding” ✧ PE17/176

Elements

WordGloss
cen-“to see, behold, look, to see, behold, look, *perceive”

Variations

  • kenya ✧ PE17/176 (kenya)

cen-

see, behold

cen- ("k")vb. "see, behold", future tense cenuva ("kenuva") "shall see" in Markirya. Imperative cena ("k"), VT47:31.Also #cen = noun "sight" as the final element of some nouns (*apacen, tercen, q.v.) Compare the root KHEN-, KEN-, KYEN- "look at, see, observe, direct gaze" (VT45:21)

véla

verb. see

véla (2) vb. "see" (Arct); present/continuative tense of a verbal stem #vel-? The context of the sentence where it occurs ("till I see you next") suggests that this is "see" in the sense of "meet".

>> yomenië

tunta-

see, notice, perceive

tunta- "see, notice, perceive", pa.t. túne (QL:95)

a-

see

a- (2) a prefix occurring in the Markirya poem (Tolkien first used na-, then changed it). It may be prefixed to verbal stems following a noun that is the object of sense-verbs like "see" and "hear" when the verb it is prefixed to describes what happens to this noun, as in man cenuva lumbor ahosta[?] (changed from na-hosta), "who shall see the clouds gather?" (hosta = "gather").

cenya

adjective. *perceptive

Element in

  • ᴺQ. fantarcenya “perspicacious, penetrating of sight or understanding”

Elements

WordGloss
cen-“to see, behold, look, to see, behold, look, *perceive”