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Qenya 

kemen

noun. soil, earth; Great Lands

Cognates

  • N. coe “earth” ✧ Ety/KEM

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶kēm “*earth”
    • ᴹ√KEM “soil, earth” ✧ Ety/KEM
  • ᴹ√KEM “soil, earth” ✧ Ety/KEM

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KEM > kén[kēm] > [kēn]✧ Ety/KEM

Variations

  • kén ✧ Ety/KEM
  • Kemen ✧ RC/671; SD/402
Qenya [Ety/KEM; RC/671; SD/402] Group: Eldamo. Published by

kén

noun. soil, earth

hún

noun. earth, earth, *ground

A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with stem form hun- and gloss “earth” (QL/39). It might be a later iteration of ᴱQ. han “ground, earth” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/39), and if so then hún might also be used as “✱ground”. I think it is useful to assume so for purposes of Neo-Quenya, as the other attested word for “ground”, Q. talan, is probably used more often for “floor”, including floors above the ground level.

Variations

  • hun ✧ PE21/19
Qenya [PE21/19; PE21/24; PE21/25] Group: Eldamo. Published by