paenui

ordinal. tenth

paenui

ordinal. tenth

A Sindarin word for “tenth” appearing in notes on numbers associated with The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s, an adjective form of pae(n) “ten” using the suffix -ui (VT42/25). Earlier drafts of The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor instead had caenui “tenth” based on earlier cae(n) “ten”, but this form was deleted (VT42/10).

caenui

ordinal. tenth

caenui

ordinal. tenth

paean Archaic

cardinal. ten

paenui

tenth

paenui.

paenui

tenth

paenui (lenited baenui)

paenui

tenth

.

pae

cardinal. ten

The Sindarin word for “ten” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s (VT42/25; VT48/6). Its primitive form is ✶kwayam based on the root √kwaya originally referring to the whole (√KWA) set of ten fingers (VT42/24). In one place it had a longer variant pae(an) (VT48/21), which appeared in reduced form in the adjective paenui “tenth” (VT42/25).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Grammar of the 1910s had G. sath “10” of unclear derivation (GG/13). The Etymologies of the 1930s had N. caer “ten” derived from a variant √KAYAR of the root ᴹ√KAYAN “ten” (Ety/KAYAN), where the -r was borrowed from neder “nine” (EtyAC/KAYAN). In notes probably from the late 1950s Tolkien had caen- or cae “ten” (PE17/95), a form Tolkien probably used for some time given nelchaenen “thirtieth” from around 1950 (SD/129) and caenui “tenth” from the late 1960s (VT42/10), a rejected form of paenui appearing in the same 1960s notes on numbers mentioned above.

pae

cardinal. ten

pae (the ”Noldorin” form caer listed in the Etymologies was apparently abandoned by Tolkien).

cae

cardinal. ten

caen

cardinal. ten

caen-

cardinal. ten

caenen

ordinal. tenth

pae

cardinal. ten

pae

ten

(the ”Noldorin” form caer listed in the Etymologies was apparently abandoned by Tolkien).