The root ᴱ√MIQI “kiss” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. miq- “to kiss” and ᴱQ. miqele “kissing” (QL/61). Derivatives also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon such as G. mib “a little kiss, a peck” and G. mictha- “kiss, bill” (GL/57). The word ᴱQ. miqilitse “little or tender kiss” appeared in the ᴱQ. Nieninqe poem from the 1920s (MC/215; PE16/90, 92). Tolkien created a new version of this poem in 1955 and reused many of the same words, including Q. mikwi- “kiss” and Q. miquelis “(soft, sweet) kiss” (PE16/96); the latter also appeared as ᴹQ. miqilis “kiss” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/33). These later examples support the ongoing validity of this root, perhaps as ✱√MIKW.
Early Primitive Elvish
ḷqḷ
root. rend
Derivatives
- Eq. ulqu- “*to rend” ✧ QL/097
Variations
- (U)ḶQ(U)Ḷ ✧ QL/097
miqi
root. kiss
Derivatives
niqi
root. white
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴱ✶ninqe-nı̯ēne
- Eq. niqetil “snow cap” ✧ LT1A/Taniquetil; QL/066
- G. nigweth “(snow) storm” ✧ LT1A/Taniquetil
alchwa
noun. swan
Derivations
- ᴱ√ḶKḶ “*appearance”
Derivatives
- G. alfa “swan” ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Alqaluntë; PE13/109
Variations
- alqa- ✧ PE13/109
huyu Speculative
root. *fog
A hypothetical early root explaining the words in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s such as G. huir “foggy” and G. huith “fog” (GL/49). It may have been a variant of ᴱ√ǶUẎU “✱night” (QL/41).
Derivatives
A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ᴱ√(U)ḶQ(U)Ḷ and glossed “rend”, having what appears to be unglossed verb forms ᴱQ. ulqin “✱I rend” and alqe “✱rended [past]” as derivatives (QL/97). There are no signs of this root in Tolkien’s later writing.