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Qenya 

vinya

adjective. pale blue

Cognates

  • N. gwind “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶windı̯ā “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN
    • ᴹ√WIN(I)D “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶windı̯ā > win(d)ya > vinya[windjā] > [windja] > [vindja] > [vinja]✧ Ety/WIN

Variations

  • vinya ✧ Ety/WIN

vinya

adjective. young, new

Changes

  • vinyawinya ✧ EtyAC/GWIN

Cognates

  • N. gwîn “young” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR

Derivations

  • ᴹ√WIN “new, fresh, young” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√GWIN > winya[gwinja] > [ɣwinja] > [winja]✧ EtyAC/GWIN
ᴹ√WINI > vinya[winja] > [vinja]✧ EtyAC/WIR

Variations

  • winya ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (winya)
  • vinya ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (vinya); EtyAC/WIR
Qenya [EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vinya

place name. Young, New Land

A name for Númenor in the initial versions of the tales of its fall (LR/19, 64; SD/332). It is simply vinya “young, new” used as a name.

Elements

WordGloss
vinya“young, new”
Qenya [LR/019; LR/025; LR/064; LRI/Vinya; SD/332; SDI2/Vinya] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sinya

adjective. new, new, *current

Cognates

  • N. sein “new” ✧ Ety/SI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√SI “this, here, now” ✧ Ety/SI

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√SI > sinya[sinja]✧ Ety/SI

vinye

noun. evening

Changes

  • vinyavinye “evening” ✧ EtyAC/WIN

Cognates

  • N. gwîn “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN
  • Ilk. gwine “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶winyē “evening” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN
    • ᴹ√WIN(I)D “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶winyā > winya > vinya[winjā] > [winja] > [vinja]✧ Ety/WIN
ᴹ✶winyē > vinye[winjē] > [winje] > [vinje]✧ EtyAC/WIN

Variations

  • vinya ✧ Ety/WIN (vinya)
Qenya [Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sinye

noun. evening

Cognates

  • N. thîn “evening” ✧ Ety/THIN

Derivations

  • ᴹ√THIN “*grey” ✧ Ety/THIN

Element in

  • ᴺQ. sinyemat “dinner, evening meal”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√THIN > sinye[tʰinje] > [θinje] > [sinje]✧ Ety/THIN

vinde

adjective. pale blue

Changes

  • vindevinde “blue-grey, pale blue or grey” ✧ EtyAC/WIN

Cognates

  • N. gwind “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/GWINDI; EtyAC/WIN
  • Ilk. gwind “pale blue” ✧ EtyAC/GWINDI

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶windı̯ā “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN
    • ᴹ√WIN(I)D “pale blue” ✧ Ety/WIN; EtyAC/WIN
  • ᴹ√WIN(I)D “pale blue” ✧ EtyAC/GWINDI

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶windi > vinde[windi] > [winde] > [vinde]✧ Ety/WIN
ᴹ√GWINDI > winde > vinde[gwindi] > [gwinde] > [ɣwinde] > [winde] > [vinde]✧ EtyAC/GWINDI
ᴹ✶windi > winde > vinde[windi] > [winde] > [vinde]✧ EtyAC/WIN
Qenya [Ety/WIN; EtyAC/GWINDI; EtyAC/WIN] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ilin

adjective. pale blue

Cognates

  • N. glinn “(pale) blue” ✧ Ety/GLINDI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√GLINDI “pale blue” ✧ Ety/GLINDI

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√GLINDI > ilin[glinde] > [glind] > [ɣlind] > [ilind] > [ilin]✧ Ety/GLINDI

nessa

adjective. young

Cognates

  • N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶nethrā “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
    • ᴹ√NETH “young” ✧ Ety/NETH

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶neth-rā > nessa[netʰrā] > [netsā] > [netsa] > [nessa]✧ Ety/NETH

tet(ta)

noun. baby

A word in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s glossed “baby” with short and long variants tet and tetta (PE21/19).

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tyetl “a tiny baby” under the early root ᴱ√TYETE “give suck” (QL/50), a word that also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “babe” (PME/50). This became ᴱQ. tetta “baby” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/135), and finally tet/tetta in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s as noted above. There are no signs of this word thereafter.

Variations

  • tet ✧ PE21/19; PE21/24
  • tetta ✧ PE21/19
Qenya [PE21/19; PE21/24] Group: Eldamo. Published by