Early Quenya
qirme
noun. cream
Cognates
- G. cwîr “cream”
Derivations
- ᴱ√QIÐI “*stir, spin” ✧ QL/077
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QIŘI > qirme [kʷiðmē] > [kʷiðme] > [kʷizme] > [kʷirme] ✧ QL/077
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A noun appearing as ᴱQ. qirme “cream” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QIŘI [QIÐI] (QL/77).
Neo-Quenya: I would retain this word as ᴺQ. quirmë “cream” for purposes of Neo-Quenya based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWIR “stir”.