Qenya
qéne
noun. petrel
Cognates
- Ilk. cwên “small gull, petrel, sea-bird” ✧ PE22/032
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶kwǣnē > qēne [kwǣnē] > [kwēnē] > [kwēne] ✧ PE22/032 Variations
- qēne ✧ PE22/032
A noun for “petrel” (a type of seabird) appearing in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s (PE22/32). It was derived from primitive ᴹ✶kwǣnē, a rare example of the vowel ǣ in primitive Elvish.