A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s form “woman” with variants anai and anî, a feminine form ᴱQ. anu “a male” (QL/31).
Early Quenya
qin
noun. woman, female
Changes
qime-→ qim- ✧ QL/077Cognates
- G. gwin “woman, female”
Derivations
- ᴱ√QIMI “*woman” ✧ QL/077
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QIMI > qin [giwim] > [gwin] > [gwin] > [kwin] > [kʷin] ✧ QL/077 Variations
- qin ✧ PE15/79; PE16/135; QL/040 (qin); QL/077; QL/095 (qin)
- qime- ✧ QL/077 (
qime-)
qin
adverb. *now
enqin
adverb. *now
qí
adverb. *now
Variations
- qin ✧ PE14/055
sí
adverb. *now
Element in
- Eq. sí qente Feanor n·istaléra “*now said Feanor the wise” ✧ PE15/32
Variations
- sī ✧ PE15/32
anai
noun. woman
Element in
- Eq. anaina “womanly” ✧ QL/031
Variations
- anî ✧ QL/031
nî
noun. woman
Cognates
Element in
- Eq. -ni “feminine suffix”
anî
noun. woman
nyél
noun. woman
A word for “woman” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s with stem form nyel-, as indicated by its accusative nyela (PE16/135). Its etymology is unclear; Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson suggested it might be connected to the early root ᴱ√NYEHE “weep” or later root ᴹ√NYEL “ring, sing”, but these both feel like stretches to me.
Variations
- nyēl ✧ PE16/135
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “woman, female” derived from the root ᴱ√QIMI (QL/77). In the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it appeared in its stem form qim- (PME/77). The word reappeared with the gloss “woman” in the English-Qenya Dictionary and Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE15/79; PE16/135), but seems to have been abandoned after that point.