5.65 Vegetables ᴱQ. kolosta n. “cucumber” An isolated word appearing ᴱQ. kolosta “cucumber” in the both the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s with no clear derivation (QL/47; PME/47). Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. colosta “cucumber” for purposes of Neo-Quenya as there are no later
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Select Elvish Words 5.61-5.64: Meat, Fat, Broth
5.61 Meat ᴹQ. apsa n. “meat, cooked food” A noun for “cooked food, meat” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from the root ᴹ√AP (Ety/AP). The word apsa “meat” also appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s and 40s (PE22/21, 50), though in the 1940s version
Select Elvish Words 5.53-5.57: Dough, Flour, Grind, Mill
5.53 Dough ᴹQ. makse n. “dough” A word for “dough” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶mazgē under the root ᴹ√MASAG “knead” (Ety/MASAG), where zg unvoiced to sk and then the sk underwent metathesis to ks. N. moeas n. “dough” A word appearing as N. moeas “dough”
Select Elvish Words 5.51: Bread
5.51 Bread Q. coimas (*coimass-) n. “life-bread, lembas” A Quenya term for “lembas” (Elven waybread) but of different etymological origins appearing in notes from the 1950s, a combination of √KOY “live” and a reduced form of massa or masta “bread” (PM/395, 403-4). As such, its stem form is likely to
Select Elvish Words 5.41-5.45: Meals
5.41 a Meal ᴹQ. mat (matt-) n. “meal, [ᴱQ.] meal time; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] food” A noun glossed “food, meal” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with a stem form matt- (PE21/27), clearly based on ᴹ√MAT “eat”. Tolkien specified that as the suffix -mat, it was the basis of
Select Elvish Words 5.34-5.37: Pitcher, Cup, Spoon
5.34 Jug, Pitcher ᴱQ. olpe n. “bottle” An isolated word without a root appearing as ᴱQ. olpe “bottle” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/69). Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. olpë “bottle” for purposes of Neo-Quenya as we have no other later alternatives. ᴱQ. ulma n. “flagon, *pitcher” A word
Select Elvish Words 5.25-5.33: Oven, Pot, Dish, Bowl
5.25 Oven ᴱQ. urna n. “oven” A noun appearing as ᴱQ. urna “oven” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√USU or ᴱ√UŘU [UÐU] whose derivatives had to do with burning (QL/98). Neo-Quenya: I would retain ᴺQ. urna for purposes of Neo-Quenya, reconceived of as a
Select Elvish Words 5.17-5.24 to Blend, Cook, Bake
5.17 to Mix, Blend Q. ostimë n. “blend” A word for a “blend” appearing in notes associated with the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60, more specifically “the running together of two elements” (VT39/9). It appeared only in its plural form ostimi “blends”. In the context where it appeared, it
Select Elvish Words 5.15-5.151: Thirst, Thirsty
5.15 Thirst ᴱN. faus n. “thirst” A word appearing as ᴱN. faus “thirst” in Early Noldorin Wordlists of the 1920s, a noun form of better known faug “thirsty”. Conceptual Development: In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien had G. luist “thirst” and variant luibri (GL/55) clearly from the early
Select Elvish Words 5.14: Hunger
5.14 Hunger Q. maita adj. “hungry” An adjective for “hungry” in notes from around 1960 derived from the root √MAT “eat” via i-infixion (VT39/11), which produced a small class of desiderative words in Quenya, as in “desiring to eat”. ᴱQ. saike n. “hunger” A noun appearing as ᴱQ. saike (saiki-)