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Early Quenya

pekte

noun. plume, cox-comb

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. pekte “plume, comb (of cock)” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√PEKE (QL/73), also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa in its stem-form pektĭ- “cox-comb” (PME/73).

Neo-Quenya: I would use the later word ᴹQ. lúpe for “plume”, but I think this Early Qenya word might be salvages as ᴺQ. pehtë “cox-comb” as a derivative of the Neo-Root ᴺ√PEK(W) “comb”, perhaps usable more generally for the crest of birds.

Changes

  • pekte → pektĭ- ✧ PME/073

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√PEKE “*plume” ✧ QL/073

Element in

  • Eq. Peksiporoku “Chantecler, (lit.) Cox-comb” ✧ PME/073; QL/073

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√PEKE > pekte[pekti] > [pekte]✧ QL/073
Early Quenya [PME/073; QL/073] Group: Eldamo. Published by