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Early Quenya

mána

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s based on the verb ᴱQ. maka- “die” (PE14/58).

Variations

  • māna ✧ PE14/058
Early Quenya [PE14/058] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qalna

adjective. dead

Derivations

  • ᴱ√QALA “die” ✧ QL/076

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√QALA > qalna[kʷalnā] > [kʷalna]✧ QL/076
Early Quenya [QL/076] Group: Eldamo. Published by

salistina

adjective. blessed

Early Quenya [QL/055; QL/081] Group: Eldamo. Published by

narka

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” implied by the stative formation narkea “is dead” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/140), perhaps connected to some precursor of √NDAK “slay”.

Early Quenya [PE16/140] Group: Eldamo. Published by

warda

adjective. dead

An adjective for “dead” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√GWṚÐṚ “die” (QL/104), given as a cognate to G. gwarth “dead (only of persons)” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/44).

Cognates

  • G. gwarth “dead (only of persons)” ✧ GL/44

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶gu̯r̄́þa > warda[gʷṝθā] > [gʷṝθa] > [wṝθa] > [warθa] > [warða] > [warda]✧ GL/44
ᴱ√GWṚÐR > warda[gʷṝðā] > [gʷṝða] > [wṝða] > [warða] > [warda]✧ QL/104
Early Quenya [GL/44; QL/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by