penya

lacking, inadequate

penya adj. "lacking, inadequate"; pl. penyë in penyë tengwi "lacking signs", "inadequate signs"; in early Elvish analysis of Quenya the term for vowels with no preceding consonant, held (in many cases incorrectly) to have lost such a consonant (VT39:6, 8)

penya

adjective. lacking, inadequate, lacking, inadequate; *poor

@@@ used for “poor” in NQNT

Derivations

• √PEN “lack, be without, have not”

Element in

• ᴺQ. aupenya “complete, without lack”
• ᴺQ. penyalë “poverty, deprivation”