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Qenya 

men

noun. place, spot

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MEN “go, proceed” ✧ Ety/MEN

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√MEN > men[men]✧ Ety/MEN

atan

noun. Man

Element in

veo

noun. man

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶wegō > veo[wegō] > [weɣō] > [weo] > [veo]✧ Ety/WEG
Qenya [Ety/WEG; EtyAC/WEG] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mana

pronoun. who

Element in

mintye

noun. peak

A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s glossed “peak” given as an example for the Quenya declension of nouns ending in -ye (PE22/44). It is probably a derivative of ᴹ√MIN “stand alone, stick out”.

Cognates

  • S. min “peak”

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MIN “stand alone, stick out”

-ma

suffix. instrumental

Element in

  • ᴹQ. sanguma “press, *thing that presses” ✧ PE21/08
  • ᴹQ. tyelma “ending”

nin

noun. nose, beak

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nengǝ “beak, nose” ✧ PE21/26
    • ᴹ√NEÑ “*nose”
Qenya [PE21/19; PE21/25; PE21/26] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aikale

noun. peak

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “a peak”, an abstract noun formation of ᴹQ. aika “sharp” (Ety/AYAK).

Elements

WordGloss
aika“sharp”
-le“abstract noun”

esse

noun. place

Derivations

  • ᴹ√ES “*place” ✧ EtyAC/ES

Element in

  • ᴹQ. essea “in place, local” ✧ EtyAC/ES (essea)

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√ES > esse[esse]✧ EtyAC/ES

Variations

  • esse ✧ EtyAC/ES (esse)