attalaitë adj. "biped" (having two feet) (VT49:42, PE12:88)
Quenya
attalya
noun/adjective. biped, *(lit.) two-footed
Cognates
- S. tad-dal “two-legged, two-legged, *biped” ✧ WJ/388
Element in
- Q. Attalyar “Bipeds, (lit.) The Two-footed”
Elements
Word Gloss atta “two” tál “foot, foot; [ᴹQ.] bottom, [ᴱQ.] lowest part” -ya “adjective suffix”
attalaitë
biped
atta
cardinal. two
atta (1) cardinal "two" (AT(AT), Letters:427, VT42:26, 27, VT48:6, 19). Elen atta "two stars" (VT49:44); notice how a noun is indeclinable before this numeral, and any case endings are "singular" and added to the numeral rather than the noun, e.g. genitive elen atto "of two stars" (VT49:45). Attalyar "Bipeds" (sg. *Attalya) = Petty-dwarves (from Sindarin Tad-dail) (WJ:389). A word atta_ "again" was struck out; see the entry _TAT in Etym and cf. ata in this list.
atta
cardinal. two
Cognates
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Atan “Man, (lit.) the Second (People)”
- Q. attalya “biped, *(lit.) two-footed”
- Q. attëa “second”
- ᴺQ. attië “group of two, couple, pair”
- ᴺQ. attindo “doubt, (lit.) two mind”
- Q. Attólamaitë “biconsonantal”
- Q. elen atto “of 2 stars” ✧ VT49/45
- Q. nai elen atta siluvat aurenna veryanwesto “*may two stars shine upon the day of your wedding” ✧ VT49/44; VT49/44
- Q. tatya “second”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶atata > atta [atata] > [atta] ✧ VT42/27 ✶atta > atta [atta] ✧ VT48/19
satto
cardinal. two
satto, "Qenya" numeral "two" (in Tolkiens later Quenya atta) (VT49:54)
A noun or adjective meaning “two-legged”, attested only in its (noun) plural form attalyar (WJ/389). It is a combination of atta “two” and tál “foot”, with the adjective suffix -ya.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s, there were similar words for “biped”: the noun ᴱQ. attalin and the adjective ᴱQ. attalaite (QL/88).