Qenya
pilin
noun. arrow, arrow; [ᴱQ.] feather
Derivations
- ᴹ√PILIN “*arrow” ✧ Ety/PÍLIM
Element in
- Q. pilinehtar “a reed-like plant, (lit.) ?arrow thorn”
- ᴺQ. pilintan “fletcher”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PÍLIN > pilin [pilin] ✧ Ety/PÍLIM
pilen
noun. feather
Derivations
- ᴹ√PILIN “*arrow”
qesse
noun. feather
Cognates
- Ilk. cwess “down (feathers)” ✧ Ety/KWES
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. qessetéma “q-series”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶kwessē > qesse [kwessē] > [kwesse] ✧ Ety/KWES
A word for “feather” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/33-34), probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/74). The word ᴹQ. pilin was more frequently glossed “arrow”.