matso noun "food" (PE16:141)
Quenya
miruvor
mead
matso
food
matl
food
matl noun "food"; read *matil in LotR-style Quenya (in which language final syllabic -l becomes -il) (QL:59); however, the word matso from a later source may be preferred.
matta
noun. food
matta
noun. food
A noun for “food” from the Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) of the early 1950s, derived from primitive ✶matnā, originally an ancient adjective meaning “eaten” (PE22/136).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “food” was ᴱQ. matl under the early root ᴱ√MATA (QL/59). This became ᴱQ. {masta} >> matso in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/141). In EVS2 the word was originally manna “food”, but this was struck through and replaced by matta (PE22/136 note #36), which likely reflects Tolkien’s shift in the phonetic developments of primitive tn, so that tn became tt rather than nn as it did in Tolkien’s earlier writings (PE19/85 and note #79).
Neo-Quenya: I find the phonetic developments associated with the above sound change to be problematic for various reasons. Therefore, I prefer to assume the primitive form of this word was an ancient noun: ✱mattā.
Changes
manna→ matta ✧ PE22/136Cognates
Derivations
- ✶matnā “eaten, eaten, [ᴹ✶] food” ✧ PE22/136
Element in
- ᴺQ. celvamatta “animal food”
- ᴺQ. laimamatta “vegetable food, (lit.) plant food”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶matnā > matta [matnā] > [mattā] > [matta] ✧ PE22/136 Variations
- manna ✧ PE22/136 (
manna)
nes
noun. food, feed, fodder
Derivations
- ᴺ✶. NES “give to feed; feed, pasture; graze”
miruvor, full form miruvórë noun "mead", "a special wine or cordial"; possessive miruvóreva "of mead" (Nam, RGEO:66; WJ:399).In the "Qenya Lexicon", miruvórë was defined "nectar, drink of the Valar" (LT1:261).