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Qenya 

qesse

noun. feather

Cognates

  • Ilk. cwess “down (feathers)” ✧ Ety/KWES

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶kwessē “feather” ✧ Ety/KWES
    • ᴹ√KWES “*feather” ✧ Ety/KWES

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶kwessē > qesse[kwessē] > [kwesse]✧ Ety/KWES
Qenya [Ety/KWES; EtyAC/KWES; PE22/022; PE22/051; PE22/061] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pilen

noun. feather

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”.

Derivations

Qenya [PE21/33; PE21/34] Group: Eldamo. Published by