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Early Quenya

-nu

suffix. masculine suffix

A common masculine suffix in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s in words like varyanu “[male] foreigner”, probably a reduced form of ᴱQ. anu (QL/31) and often paired with its feminine equivalent ᴱQ. -ni.

Element in

  • Eq. ettanu “male cousin” ✧ QL/036
  • Eq. hestanu “brother” ✧ QL/040
  • Eq. túranu “king” ✧ QL/095
  • Eq. varyanu “foreigner” ✧ QL/100

Elements

WordGloss
anu“a male, man”
Early Quenya [QL/036; QL/040; QL/095; QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ndo

suffix. masculine suffix

Element in

  • Eq. herendo “brother” ✧ QL/040
Early Quenya [QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by