13.24 Half
- Q. per- pref. “half-, [ᴹQ.] semi-”
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A prefix for “half-” implied by names like Pereldar “Half-elven” (Let/386), clearly based on the root √PER of the same meaning (PE17/173). It may also mean “semi-” as in ᴹQ. Perómandar “semivocalic” (PE18/30).
- Q. peresta n. “one half”
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A word appearing as peresta or perta “half” in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of √PER “half” with the suffix for fractions -sta.
Conceptual Development: Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s had ᴱQ. lempe “one half” with adjective forms ᴱQ. lempea, ᴱQ. lenya, or lemya “half” (PE14/50-51, 84). All of these 1920s words were related to 1920s ᴱQ. lemin “five”.
- Q. Perian (Periand-) n. “Halfling”
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Quenya word for a “Halfing” (VT49/40) based on the root √PER “half”. As originally published in VT49, it was an element in Periondion, but this was corrected to Periandion in errata.
- S. per- pref. “half”
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A prefix for “half-” implied by names like Peredhil “Half-elven” (LotR/1034) and Perhael “Half-wise” [Samwise] (PE17/102), clearly based on the root √PER of the same meaning (PE17/173).
- S. Perian n. “Halfling, Hobbit”
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Sindarin word for a “Halfing” (PE17/66, 100; RGEO/67; LotR/859) based on the root √PER “half”.
- N. perin adj. “half”
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An adjective for “half” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√PER “divide in middle, halve” (Ety/PER).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon (GL) of the 1910s had adjective G. elfeg and noun elef “half” (GL/32), the latter also used to mean “half a …”, as in basgorn elef “*half a loaf” (GL/53). In addition GL had lemp “a half”, and all these words word derived from the early root ᴱ√lef [LEǶE] which was the basis for ᴱQ. lempe “5” (GL/53), though in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon lexicon ᴱQ. lemin was “five” and ᴱQ. lempe “ten” (QL/52).