Early Quenya
-tenda
suffix. having fingers
Derivations
- ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” ✧ QL/091
Element in
- Eq. tapatenda “taper fingered, light fingered, long fingered” ✧ QL/089
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TENE > -tenda [-tendā] > [-tenda] ✧ QL/091
A suffix meaning “having fingers” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” (QL/91), appearing as an element in ᴱQ. tapatenda “taper fingered (light fingered)”, whose initial element was ᴱQ. tapa- “taper” (QL/89). In later writings, such adjectives were usually formed with Q. lepta, as in [ᴹQ.] rakkalepta “✱claw-fingered” (SD/68).