Quenya
ten-
go as far as
ten-
verb. to arrive, come to
Derivations
- √TEN “direction; point (toward); end (in sense of point aimed at)” ✧ VT49/23
Element in
- Q. mennen sís “I arrive[d] here” ✧ VT49/23 (
tennen sís)- Q. quiquië menin coaryanna, arsë “whenever I arrive at his house/come to/get to, he is out” ✧ VT49/23 (
quiquie tenin koaryanna, arse)- Q. yá hríve menë, ringa ná “when winter comes/arrives/is with us, it is cold” ✧ VT49/23 (
yá hríve tene, ringa ná)Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √ten- > tēna- [tenna] ✧ VT49/23
[ten- (3) vb. "go as far as", 1st person sg. aorist tenin, (tenin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist tenë, present tense téna- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense tennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative: tennen sís "I arrive[d] here", perfect eténië "has just arrived", future tenuva "will arrive".] (VT49:23, 35, 36; Tolkien emended the initial consonant from t to m throughout)