nésë (Þ) noun "youth", also nessë (NETH). Not to be confused with nésë "he was"; see ná #1.
Quenya
nessë
youth
nésë
youth
nér
man
nér (1) (ner-, as in pl. neri) noun "man" (adult male elf, mortal, or of other speaking race) (MR:213, VT49:17, DER, NDER, NI1, VT45:9; see also WJ:393)
nér
noun. man
lér
man
**lér noun "man" (NI1; hypothetical Q form of PQ dēr; the form actually used in Quenya was nér)
vínë
youth
vínë noun "youth" (probably as abstract) (VT47:26, PE17:191)
vínë
noun. youth, youth, *childhood
Cognates
- S. gwîn “youth” ✧ PE17/191
Derivations
- √WIN “young, young, [ᴹ√] new, fresh” ✧ PE17/191; VT47/26
Element in
- Q. vinimetta “end of youth, end of youth, *reaching middle age”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √WIN > vínë [wīne] > [βīne] > [vīne] ✧ PE17/191 Variations
- víne ✧ VT47/26
vinyarë
noun. youth, youth, *young adulthood
Elements
Word Gloss vinya “young, new” -rë “abstract noun”
vëo
man
†vëo noun "man" (WEG; etymologically connected to vëa "manly, vigorous"; the more neutral word for "man" is nér. According to VT46:21, Tolkien indicated that vëo is an archaic or poetic word.) Tolkien at a later point defined the word as "living creature" (PE17:189). Cf. variant wëo, q.v.
laisi
youth, vigour, new life
laisi, laito noun "youth, vigour, new life" (LT1:267; rather vië or nésë, nessë in Tolkien's later Quenya)
vírië
youth
vírië noun "youth" (as abstract) (VT46:22)
nessë
noun. past tense, (lit.) nē-ness
An archaic term for the “past tense”, a neologism coined by Röandil on 2023-08-10 in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS), an abstract noun based on the ancient past element ✶nē. In modern Quenya it would be vanwalussë.
Elements
Word Gloss -nē “past tense” -ssē/-ssā
matya-
verb. to feed
A neologism for “to feed” coin by Damien Bador as a straightforward derivative of the attested primitive verb ✶matyā- of the same meaning (PE22/135). I would distinguish it from ᴺQ. nesta- “to graze, pasture, (give to) feed” used for feeding farm animals, whereas matya- can be used for feeding anyone.
Derivations
nessë noun "youth"; also nésë (NETH)