Early Quenya
resse
noun. kinswoman, cousin
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√RESE > resse [ressē] > [resse] ✧ QL/079 ᴱ√reðe > resse [reðsē] > [reðse] > [rezse] > [resse] ✧ QL/079
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A noun appearing as ᴱQ. resse “kinswoman, cousin” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, under the early root ᴱ√RESE “aid, support ?” (QL/79); the question mark was Tolkien’s. Tolkien later added a note to this entry clarifying that the “kin, cousin” words were derived from primitive reðe; see the entry on ᴱ√REÐE for further discussion.
Neo-Quenya: I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. ressë “female cousin, kinsman or relative” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√RE(N)D. The primitive form ✱red-se would become retsë in Quenya, but I would assume this word was altered to ressë by analogy with other feminine forms like nissë “woman”.