véla

adjective. *alike, having a likeness or similarity

An untranslated word in the phrase mahtanë yúyo má véla associated with the Ambidexters Sentence from the late 1960s (VT49/6). Patrick Wynne suggested this phrase means “✱used both hands alike”, and that véla means “✱alike, having a likeness or similarity” as an adjective form of vē̆ “as, like” (VT49/10).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had several similar forms: ᴱQ. víka “like” under the early root ᴱ√VĪ [VI'I] “as” (QL/101), as well as more emphatic ᴱQ. avíka “very much alike” and ᴱQ. inqavíka “exactly alike, identical” (QL/30, 42).

véla

verb. see

véla (2) vb. "see" (Arct); present/continuative tense of a verbal stem #vel-? The context of the sentence where it occurs ("till I see you next") suggests that this is "see" in the sense of "meet".

>> yomenië

véla

alike

véla (1) adv. *"alike" (VT49:10)

vel-

verb. vel-

#vel- see véla #2

a-

see

a- (2) a prefix occurring in the Markirya poem (Tolkien first used na-, then changed it). It may be prefixed to verbal stems following a noun that is the object of sense-verbs like "see" and "hear" when the verb it is prefixed to describes what happens to this noun, as in man cenuva lumbor ahosta[?] (changed from na-hosta), "who shall see the clouds gather?" (hosta = "gather").

cen-

verb. see, behold

cen- ("k")vb. "see, behold", future tense cenuva ("kenuva") "shall see" in Markirya. Imperative cena ("k"), VT47:31.Also #cen = noun "sight" as the final element of some nouns (*apacen, tercen, q.v.) Compare the root KHEN-, KEN-, KYEN- "look at, see, observe, direct gaze" (VT45:21)

cenya

verb. see, perceive

mahtanë yúyo má véla

*wielded both hands alike

tunta-

see, notice, perceive

tunta- "see, notice, perceive", pa.t. túne (QL:95)