Qenya
meneste
noun. intention
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meneste
noun. intention
A noun for “intention” appearing in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 as a combination of the verb [ᴹQ.] men- “intend” and the “general action suffix” -ste (PE22/110).
Neo-Quenya: Tolkien removed the sense “intend” from the verb men-, altering its meaning to “go, proceed” instead (PE22/103 note #20). In Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2), this general action suffix became -sta (PE22/137 and note #40). I would therefore adapt this noun as ᴺQ. mínasta “intention, ✱goal, destination” based on the verb mína- “desire to go in some direction” (VT39/11).