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!

Early Quenya

fauta-

verb. to snow

A Qenya verb in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, cognate to G. fôtha “it snows” (GL/35).

Cognates

Variations

  • fauta ✧ GL/35
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fáwe

noun. snow

A Qenya noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, cognate to G. fô “snow” (GL/35).

Cognates

  • G. fô “snow” ✧ GL/35

Derivations

Element in

  • Eq. fauta- “to snow” ✧ GL/35
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niqista-

verb. to snow

A verb for “to snow” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants niqista- and niqisya-, both elaborations of ᴱQ. niqis “snow” (QL/66).

Cognates

  • G. nictha- “to rain, hail, snow”

Variations

  • niqisya ✧ QL/066
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niqisya-

verb. to snow

niqis

noun. snow

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NIQI “white” ✧ LT1A/Taniquetil; QL/066

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NIQI > niqis[niqiss] > [niqis]✧ QL/066

Variations

  • niqis- ✧ PME/066
Early Quenya [LT1A/Taniquetil; PME/066; QL/066] Group: Eldamo. Published by