Early Quenya
nel(de)kainen
cardinal. thirty
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
nel(de)kainen
cardinal. thirty
The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. nel(de)kainen “thirty” as a combination of ᴱQ. nelde “three” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten” (PE14/49, 83).
Neo-Quenya: Late in Tolkien’s life, Tolkien changed the Quenya word for “ten” to quëan or quain, which has been the basis for various neologisms for “thirty”: ᴺQ. nelequëan, ᴺQ. nelequain, or ᴺQ. nelquain. I prefer to use ᴺQ. nelquain for purposes of Neo-Quenya.