Early Quenya
wembil
noun. worm
Cognates
- G. gwembel “weevil”
Derivations
- ᴱ√GWEVE “*worm” ✧ QL/103
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√GWEVE > ’wembil [gʷemβil] > [gʷembil] > [wembil] ✧ QL/103 Variations
- ’wembil ✧ QL/103
wembe
noun. worm
Cognates
- G. gwem “worm”
Derivations
- ᴱ√GWEVE “*worm” ✧ QL/103
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√GWEVE > ’wembe [gʷemβē] > [gʷemβe] > [gʷembe] > [wembe] ✧ QL/103 Variations
- ’wembe ✧ QL/103
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.