14.14 Young ᴹQ. nése n. “youth” A word appearing as nése or nesse “youth” in the The Etymologies of the 1930s, the former probably derived from ᴹ✶nēthē based on the root ᴹ√NETH “young” (Ety/NETH). ᴹQ. nessa adj. “young” An adjective glossed “young” in the The Etymologies of the 1930s derived
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Studies on selected elvish words to sort out their semantics.
Select Elvish Words: 14.13 New
14.13 New Q. céva adj. “fresh, new, ⚠️renewed” A word appearing in notes from the late 1960s mostly as kéva but in one place with a variant keu, variously glossed “fresh, new, renewed” and derived from the root √KEW (VT48/7-8). Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ.
Select Elvish Words: 14.12 Age
14.12 Age Q. coimen (coimend-) n. “life-year” A measure of the age of an adult Elf, translated “life-year”, equal in time to an Elvish long-year yén which is 144 sun-years (NM/84, 120). The word coimen seems to be derived from a combination of √KOY “life” and √MEN “go, proceed”, so
Select Elvish Words: 14.11 Time (period)
14.11 Time (period) ᴹQ. andalúme adv. “for a long while” A word meaning “for a long while” from the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) from 1948 (PE22/125), a compound of anda “long” and lúme “time”. ᴹQ. lú n. “a time, occasion; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] 24 hours, day” A word for “a time, occasion”
Select Elvish Words: 13.55 Ordinal Number (Sindarin)
13.55 Ordinal Number (Sindarin) S. canthui num. “fourth” A Sindarin word for “fourth” appearing in notes on numbers associated with The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from the late 1960s, an adjective form of canad “four” using the suffix -ui (VT42/25). In author’s note 5 of that document, Tolkien said
Select Elvish Words: 13.55 Ordinal Number (Quenya)
13.55 Ordinal Number (Quenya) Q. cantëa num. “fourth” A word for “fourth” in notes on Elvish numbers from the late 1960s (VT42/25), an adjectival form of canta “four”. Conceptual Development: The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. kanya “fourth” also based on ᴱQ. kanta “four” (PE14/51, 82).
Select Elvish Words: 13.543 Huge Cardinal Number
13.543 Huge Cardinal Number ᴱQ. enqendóre num. “*sextillion” The manuscript version of the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. enqendóra “*six million” (PE14/50), but in the typescript version this became ᴱQ. enqendóre “*sextillion” (PE14/83), a combination of ᴱQ. enqe “six” and the “-illion” suffix ᴱQ. -(n)dóre. Neo-Quenya:
Select Elvish Words: 13.542 Large Cardinal Number
13.542 Large Cardinal Number ᴱQ. enekkainen num. “sixty” The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. enekkainen “sixty” as a combination of ᴱQ. enekse “six” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten” (PE14/49, 82). Neo-Quenya: Late in Tolkien’s life, Tolkien changed the Quenya word for “ten” to quëan or quain, which
Select Elvish Words: 13.541 Teen Cardinal Number
13.541 Teen Cardinal Number Q. canquë num. “*fourteen” One of a set of Quenya “teen” numbers appearing in rough notes on numbers from the late 1960s appearing as kanakwe and likely meaning “fourteen” (VT48/21). I am of the opinion that this is a primitive form, and the modern Quenya form
Select Elvish Words: 13.54 Cardinal Number (Sindarin)
13.54 Cardinal Number S. canad num. “four” The Sindarin word for “four” based on the root √KANAT of the same meaning (PE17/95; VT42/24; VT48/6; Ety/KÁNAT). Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. cant “four” (GL/25). Some rough notes from the 1960s had a variant form cened “four”,