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Early Quenya

hen

noun. eye

Cognates

  • G. hen “eye” ✧ GL/48
  • En. hen(n) “eye” ✧ PE13/147

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ske-ndá “eye” ✧ PE12/021; PE13/147
    • ᴱ√ÞEHE “*see” ✧ PE12/021

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶þχe-ndǝ > hen[θxendǝ] > [θxend] > [xxend] > [hend] > [hen]✧ PE12/021
ᴱ✶ske-ndá > hen[skenda] > [skendǝ] > [skend] > [xend] > [hend] > [hen]✧ PE13/147

Variations

  • huen- ✧ QL/040 (huen-)
Early Quenya [GL/48; PE12/021; PE13/147; PE14/043; PE14/052; PE14/076; PE14/117; PE15/72; PE16/136; PME/040; QL/040; QL/082] Group: Eldamo. Published by

oi

noun. bird, hen

The word ᴱQ. oi “bird, hen” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the unglossed early root ᴱ√OHO, but Tolkien considered transferring this and related words to ᴱ√OHO “cry” (QL/69). This word also seems to have appeared in an inflected form oïkta in the very early Narqelion poem.

Conceptual Development: In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien had ᴱQ. oi and oiwe “bird” (PE16/132), forms that later developed into Q. aiwë “bird”. However, many years later in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s Tolkien had the primitive word ✶kholjē “hen” derived from the root √KHOL “crow, cry aloud”, which seems to be a later iteration of the early oi “hen” word.

Neo-Quenya: Based on ✶kholjē, Gábor Lőrinczi proposed a neologism ᴺQ. holyë “hen” as recorded in the VQP (VQP). I would treat holyë “hen” as exclusively feminine, as opposed to ᴺQ. porocë which can be used both of hens and of chickens generally.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√OHO “*egg” ✧ QL/069

Element in

Early Quenya [QL/069; VT40/08] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ni

adjective. this

poroke

noun. barn fowl, hen

The word ᴱQ. poroke “barn fowl” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, along with a second gloss “hen” that was deleted (QL/75). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien glossed ᴱQ. poroke as “hen” (PE16/132). In Common Eldarin: Noun Structure from the early 1950s, Tolkien had primitive words ✶porokĭ “fowl” and ✶porokē “hen” (PE21/82). Finally, primitive onomatopoetic roots √porok or √korok “hen” appeared in marginal notes from the late 1960s (VT47/36).

Neo-Quenya: Given the above, I would retain ᴺQ. porocë for purposes of Neo-Quenya, usable both for chickens in general as well as hens, much as the default gender of the English word “chicken” is female rather than male. For a specifically female chicken, however, I would use ᴺQ. holyë “hen”. The word porocë “fowl” might also apply to domesticated birds in general.

Cognates

  • G. porog “fowl (domestic)”

Element in

Variations

  • Poroke ✧ QL/075
Early Quenya [PE16/132; QL/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ike

adjective. this

Derivations

  • ᴱ√I “here it is, root of relatives” ✧ QL/041

Element in

  • Eq. iki “look! (what I have)” ✧ QL/041

Elements

WordGloss
I“here it is, root of relatives”
KI“this by me”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√I > ike[iki] > [ike]✧ QL/041
Early Quenya [QL/041] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sinda

noun. eye

Cognates

  • En. hen(n) “eye” ✧ PE13/122

Variations

  • sinda ✧ PE13/122
Early Quenya [PE13/122] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aiwe

noun. bird

Cognates

  • G. aigli “bird” ✧ GL/17

Derivations

  • ᴱ√AYA ✧ GL/17

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√aı̯² > aiwe[ajwē] > [ajwe] > [aiwe]✧ GL/17
Early Quenya [GL/17; PE16/147] Group: Eldamo. Published by

oive

noun. bird

Cognates

  • En. aiw “bird” ✧ PE13/136; PE13/158

Variations

  • oi ✧ PE16/132
  • oiwe ✧ PE16/132
Early Quenya [PE13/136; PE13/158; PE16/132] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qi

adjective. this

Element in

  • Eq. enqi “this (emphatic)” ✧ PE14/054
  • Eq. i·ner qi “this man; this man (we have at present, etc.)” ✧ PE14/054
  • Eq. qinqe “this” ✧ PE14/054
  • Eq. “*now” ✧ PE14/054
  • Eq. qinda “this” ✧ PE14/054

Variations

  • si- ✧ PE14/054
  • ni- ✧ PE14/054
Early Quenya [PE14/054; PE14/055] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qinda

adjective. this

Changes

  • qintaqinda ✧ PE14/055

Element in

Variations

  • qinta ✧ PE14/055 (qinta)
  • sinda ✧ PE16/146; PE16/146; PE16/146
Early Quenya [PE14/055; PE16/146] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qinqe

noun. this

Early Quenya [PE14/055] Group: Eldamo. Published by

si

adjective. this

táma

adjective. this

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TA “demonstrative” ✧ QL/087

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TA > tāma[tāmā] > [tāma]✧ QL/087

Variations

  • tāma ✧ QL/087
Early Quenya [QL/087] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wilin

noun. bird

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bird”, derived from the early root ᴱ√GWILI that was the basis for words having to do with flight (QL/104).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWILI “*fly” ✧ LT1A/Vilna; QL/104

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWILI > ’wilin[gʷilin] > [wilin]✧ QL/104

Variations

  • ’wilin ✧ QL/104
Early Quenya [LT1A/Vilna; QL/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

oi(we)

noun. bird