Quenya 

enquë

cardinal. six

enquë ("q") cardinal "six" (ÉNEK, VT48:4, 6, 9, VT49:57); enquëa ordinal "sixth" (VT42:25); see also enquië. According to VT48:8, the word for "six" may have been encë ("k") in very early Quenya (the form is asterisked by Tolkien), but this was altered to enquë under the influence of yunquë "twelve" (perceived as meaning "2 times 6", *yú-enquë, with the prefix - "twi-").

enquë

cardinal. six

Cognates

  • S. eneg “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/06; VT48/08
  • T. enec “six” ✧ VT48/06; VT48/08

Derivations

  • ENEK “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/07; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
enk- > enque[eŋkwe]✧ PE17/095
eneke/enke > enque[eneke] > [eŋke] > [eŋkwe]✧ VT48/07
eneke > enke > enque[eneke] > [eŋke] > [eŋkwe]✧ VT48/08
enek > enekw > enque[eneke] > [eŋke] > [eŋkwe]✧ VT48/09
enekwe > enque[enekwe] > [eŋkwe]✧ VT48/10

Variations

  • enque ✧ PE17/095; VT48/06; VT48/07; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10
Quenya [PE17/095; VT48/06; VT48/07; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Sindarin 

eneg

cardinal. six

Sindarin [Ety/356, VT/42:25,31, VT/48:6,8] Group: SINDICT. Published by

eneg

cardinal. six

Cognates

  • Q. enquë “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/06; VT48/08

Derivations

  • ENEK “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/08

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
enk- > eneg-[eneke] > [enek] > [eneg]✧ PE17/095
eneke > eneg[eneke] > [enek] > [eneg]✧ VT48/08

Variations

  • eneg- ✧ PE17/095
Sindarin [PE17/095; VT42/25; VT48/06; VT48/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

eneg

card

_ card. _six. Q. enque, enc-. >> odog

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

nel

card

_ card. _three. Q. nelde. Fcan, canad, neledh

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

caen-

card

_ card. _ten. Q. cainen. >> cae, mimp. This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

leben

card

_ card. _five. Q. lepen, lempe. >> eneg

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

neder

card

_ card. _nine. Q. nerte. >> cae, caen-

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

er

card

_ card. _one. Q. er. >> min, tad

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

cae

card

_ card. _ten. Q. cea. >> caen-, mimp. This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

can

card

_ card. _four. Q. canta. >> canad, leben

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

min

card

_ card. _one. Q. min. >> er, tad

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

odog

card

_ card. _seven. Q. otos. >> tolod

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

canad

card

_ card. _four. Q. canta. >> can, leben

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

tad

card

_ card. _two. Q. atta. Fnel, neledh

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

tad

card

card. two. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:14] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

tolod

card

_ card. _eight. Q. tolto. >> neder

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:95] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

eneg

cardinal. six

eneg;

eneg

six

;

enecthui

sixth

also ✱engui (the latter is David Salo’s suggested normalized form of a word that actually appears as enchui in the source, but the longer form enecthui can be used to avoid the problem) (VT42:25).

Telerin 

enec

cardinal. six

Cognates

  • Q. enquë “six” ✧ VT48/06; VT48/08

Derivations

  • ENEK “six” ✧ VT48/08

Variations

  • enec(e) ✧ VT48/08
Telerin [VT48/06; VT48/08; VT48/21] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Primitive elvish

enek

root. six

The root and words for “six” remained very similar throughout Tolkien’s life. The earliest form of this root was ᴱ√ENE “six” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with the derivative ᴱQ. ende “six” (QL/35). In the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s, the Qenya word for “six” became ᴱQ. enqe [enkwe] with variant enekse (PE14/49, 82), implying a primitive base ✱enek-. This primitive form was made explicit in The Etymologies of the 1930s, where the root was given as ᴹ√ENEK “six” with derivatives ᴹQ. enqe and N. eneg (Ety/ÉNEK). The root and its derivatives retained this form thereafter.

Tolkien spent a fair amount of time analyzing the origin of this root and the basis for the Q. addition of w in various notes on Elvish numbering systems written in 1968 (VT41, VT42, VT47, VT48). One connection Tolkien regularly made was between √ENEK “six” and √ENED “middle”, as “six” was the “middle” of the duodecimal system of numbering (VT41/16; VT48/9); in this respect it was probably an elaboration of the root √NEK “divide, separate, part” by analogy with √ENED (VT47/16; VT48/9). The Quenya -we may have been either a dual suffix based on “six” as twice three (VT48/10) or it might have been by analogy with other important duodecimal numbers like Q. minquë “eleven” and Q. yunquë “twelve” (48/7). Personally I find the second theory more compelling.

Derivatives

  • Q. enquë “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/07; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10
  • S. eneg “six” ✧ PE17/095; VT48/08
  • ᴺS. eneph “sixteen”
  • T. enec “six” ✧ VT48/08

Element in

  • yūnekē “twelve, 2 sixes” ✧ VT47/41; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10

Variations

  • enk- ✧ PE17/095
  • enek ✧ VT41/16 (enek); VT47/12; VT47/15; VT47/16; VT47/16; VT47/41; VT48/09; VT48/10
  • en-ek(w) ✧ VT42/24
  • eneke/enke ✧ VT48/07
  • eneke ✧ VT48/08
  • enekē̆ ✧ VT48/08
  • enekwe ✧ VT48/10
  • nekew ✧ VT48/10
Primitive elvish [PE17/095; VT41/16; VT42/24; VT47/12; VT47/15; VT47/16; VT47/41; VT48/07; VT48/08; VT48/09; VT48/10] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

eneg

cardinal. six

Noldorin [Ety/356, VT/42:25,31, VT/48:6,8] Group: SINDICT. Published by

eneg

cardinal. six

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. enqe “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Derivations

  • ᴹ√ENEK “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√ÉNEK > eneg[eneke] > [enek] > [eneg]✧ Ety/ÉNEK
Noldorin [Ety/ÉNEK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Qenya 

enqe

cardinal. six

Cognates

  • N. eneg “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Derivations

  • ᴹ√ENEK “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√ÉNEK > enqe[enekwe] > [eŋkwe]✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Middle Primitive Elvish

enek

root. six

Derivatives

  • ᴹQ. enqe “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK
  • N. eneg “six” ✧ Ety/ÉNEK

Variations

  • ÉNEK ✧ Ety/ÉNEK
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ÉNEK] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

ene

root. six

Derivatives

  • Eq. ende “six” ✧ QL/035
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/035] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

ende

cardinal. six

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ENE “six” ✧ QL/035

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√ENE² > ende[endē] > [ende]✧ QL/035
Early Quenya [PME/035; QL/035] Group: Eldamo. Published by

enqe

cardinal. six

Cognates

Element in

  • Eq. en(ek)kea “sixteen” ✧ PE14/049
  • Eq. enqendóre “*sextillion” ✧ PE14/082
  • Eq. enqendóra “*six million” ✧ PE14/049
  • Eq. enekkainen “sixty” ✧ PE14/049
  • Eq. enetya “sixth” ✧ PE14/049
  • Eq. enqellume “*six times” ✧ PE14/049
  • Eq. enqesto “one sixth” ✧ PE14/049; PE14/049; PE14/082

Variations

  • enekse ✧ PE14/049; PE14/082
Early Quenya [PE14/049; PE14/082] Group: Eldamo. Published by

enekse

cardinal. six