Early Quenya
vestani
noun. *bride
Cognates
- G. bedhres “sister in law, *kinswoman by marriage”
Variations
- vestaqin ✧ QL/101
vestaqin
noun. ?bride
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An unglossed word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants vestani and vestaqin (QL/101), combinations of ᴱQ. vesta “marriage” with feminine suffixes ᴱQ. -ni or ᴱQ. qin “woman”, so perhaps “✱marriage woman” = “✱bride”.