Early Quenya
ráma
noun. wing; arm
Changes
ram→ ranko ✧ PE14/076Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√RAHA “stretch forward” ✧ LT2A/Alqarámë; QL/078
Element in
- Eq. anda ráma “(a) long wing” ✧ PE14/076
- Eq. anda-ráma “long-arm(ed); long-wing(ed)” ✧ PE14/045; PE14/076; PE15/79
- Eq. Earáme “Eagle’s Pinion” ✧ LT2A/Alqarámë
- Eq. Alqaráme “Swanwing” ✧ LT2A/Alqarámë
- Eq. ehtaráma “having a wing like a sword”
- Eq. rámavoite “winged, having wings” ✧ LT2A/Alqarámë; PE15/79; QL/078
- Eq. rámali tíne “the wings shining” ✧ MC/213
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√RAHA > rāma [raxmā] > [raxma] > [raɣma] > [rāma] ✧ QL/078 Variations
- rāma ✧ GL/64; PE15/69 (
rāma); QL/078- ram ✧ PE14/076 (
ram)
ala
noun. wing
Derivations
- ᴱ√ALA “spread‽”
Element in
- Eq. talainen tinwelindon “with wings like stars” ✧ PE16/062; PE16/072
vasse
noun. wing
Cognates
- G. bass “wing, pinion” ✧ GL/22
Derivations
Element in
- Eq. vassivaswe “beating or rushing of wings” ✧ QL/100
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√VASA > vasse [βassi] > [βasse] > [vasse] ✧ QL/100 ᴱ√GWASA > ’wasse [gʷassi] > [gʷasse] > [wasse] ✧ QL/103 Variations
- ’wasse ✧ QL/103
wasse
noun. wing
A word for “wing” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√VASA (QL/100). A similar word ’wasse appeared under the early root ᴱ√GWASA (QL/103). The word vasse “wing” also appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/22) and again in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/137), but not thereafter.