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Early Quenya

manya

noun. butter

Cognates

  • G. mang “butter”

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√MṆGṆ > mnʒ+ʒ̑ǝ > mandy·ya > manya[mṇgðʲā] > [mṇgðʲa] > [mṇgja] > [maŋgja] > [maŋja] > [manja]✧ QL/062

Variations

  • manya ✧ QL/062
Early Quenya [QL/062] Group: Eldamo. Published by

manya

adjective. good (not evil)

Changes

  • manyavanya “good (not evil)” ✧ PE14/081

Variations

  • manya ✧ PE14/048
Early Quenya [PE14/048] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mingwe

noun. butter

The word for “butter” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was ᴱQ. manya derived from the early root ᴱ√MṆGṆ (QL/62) with the cognate G. mang “butter” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/56). A similar form ᴱQ. mingwe “butter” appeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/141, 145), along with an unrelated form ᴱQ. úle “butter” that also appeared as an adjective in the phrase masta {mingwea >>} úlea]] “bread and butter” (PE16/141). In contemporaneous Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the Qenya word for “butter” was ᴱQ. telpe rather than having its usual meaning “silver” as in earlier and later writings (PE13/154).

Neo-Quenya: Of these forms, I prefer ᴺQ. manya for “butter” for purposes of Neo-Quenya since it has the clearest (Neo-Sindarin) cognate ᴺS. mang. I assume these words are derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√MANGYA where ngy became ng in (Old) Sindarin but became ndy in Quenya and then developed into ny.

Derivations

Early Quenya [PE16/141; PE16/145] Group: Eldamo. Published by

telpe

noun. butter

A Qenya word for “butter” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s from primitive ᴱ✶t’lḗpe (PE13/154), a temporary repurposing of the form usually used for “silver”, which in this document was ᴱQ. telqe from primitive ᴱ✶kelekwé (PE13/140).

Cognates

  • En. tlî “butter” ✧ PE13/154

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶t’lḗpe > telpe[telepē] > [telepe] > [telpe]✧ PE13/154

Variations

  • telpe ✧ PE13/154
Early Quenya [PE13/154] Group: Eldamo. Published by

úle

noun. butter

Element in

Early Quenya [PE16/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by