Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

vaiya

noun. seamew

vaiya

noun. sky, skies

A word for “sky” or “skies” in the Oilima Markirya poem and its drafts from around 1930 (MC/221; PE16/75) probably based on the early root ᴱ√VAẎA.

Changes

  • vaiyavaite ✧ PE16/062

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VAẎA “enfold, wind about”

Element in

Variations

  • vaiya ✧ MC/214; PE16/065 (vaiya); PE16/075
Early Quenya [MC/214; PE16/065; PE16/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by

máwe

noun. gull, seamew

Changes

  • maiwewaiwe ✧ PE16/138

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MAWA “‽cry, bleat” ✧ QL/060

Element in

Variations

  • vaiya ✧ PE16/138
  • waiwe ✧ PE16/138
  • maiwe ✧ PE16/138 (maiwe)
  • māwe ✧ PME/060; QL/060
Early Quenya [MC/213; PE16/138; PME/060; QL/060] Group: Eldamo. Published by

taime

noun. sky

A word for “the sky” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with variants Taime and Taimie from the early root ᴱ√TAHA [DAHA] (QL/87). ᴱQ. tea “sky” from Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s is probably related, as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE16/142).

Cognates

  • G. dai “sky” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar
  • G. daimoth “heaven” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar

Derivations

  • ᴱ√DAHA “*high” ✧ LT1A/Telimektar; QL/087

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TAHA > Taime[taximē] > [taxime] > [taɣime] > [taime]✧ QL/087

Variations

  • Taimë ✧ LT1A/Telimektar
  • Taimië ✧ LT1A/Telimektar
  • tea ✧ PE16/142
  • Taime ✧ QL/088
  • Taimie ✧ QL/088
Early Quenya [LT1A/Telimektar; PE16/142; QL/088] Group: Eldamo. Published by

waiwe

noun. seamew

taimie

noun. sky

tea

noun. sky