Early Quenya
-tenda
suffix. having fingers
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
-tenda
suffix. having fingers
A suffix meaning “having fingers” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” (QL/91), appearing as the final of element in ᴱQ. tapatenda “taper fingered (light fingered)” whose initial element was ᴱ√TAPA “taper” (QL/89). In later writings, such adjectives were usually formed with Q. lepta, as in [ᴹQ.] rakkalepta “✱claw-fingered” (SD/68).