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Early Quenya

wembe

noun. worm

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. {wembe >>} ’wembe “worm” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√GWEVE; it had a longer variant *’wembil** (QL/103). Wembe “worm” was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa* (PME/103).

Neo-Quenya: Helge Fauskanger adapted this word as ᴺQ. vembë “worm” in his NQNT (NQNT), and I follow his suggestion in part for better compatibility with adapted Gnomish forms from the Neo-Root ᴺ√WEB.

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWEVE “*worm” ✧ QL/103

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWEVE > ’wembe[gʷemβē] > [gʷemβe] > [gʷembe] > [wembe]✧ QL/103

Variations

  • ’wembe ✧ QL/103
Early Quenya [PME/103; QL/103] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wembil

noun. worm

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√GWEVE “*worm” ✧ QL/103

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√GWEVE > ’wembil[gʷemβil] > [gʷembil] > [wembil]✧ QL/103

Variations

  • ’wembil ✧ QL/103
Early Quenya [QL/103] Group: Eldamo. Published by