A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “womanly, feminine” with variants qimenea and qimea, adjectival forms of ᴱQ. qin (qim-) “woman” (QL/77).
Early Quenya
ea
interjection. a cry of pain or woe
ea(r)
noun. (young) eagle
vea
noun. sea
qim(en)ea
adjective. womanly, feminine
en(ek)kea
cardinal. sixteen
pirúk(end)ea
adjective. pirouetting, whirling lightly
-ea
suffix. adjectival suffix
sor(ne)
noun. eagle
soron
noun. eagle
-a
suffix. adjectival suffix
-ina
suffix. adjectival suffix
e-
verb. to be
ná-
verb. to be, exist
-ra
suffix. adjectival suffix
anaina
adjective. womanly
nanwa
adjective. being
ó-
verb. to be
A word appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ea “eagle” (QL/34), with the gloss “young eagle” in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/34). It was also mentioned in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as ea(r), a cognate of (archaic) G. †ior “eagle” (GL/51). It was also mentioned as ea “eagle” in the Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin (PE15/22).