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!

Early Quenya

fen

noun. reed

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “reed” under the early root ᴱ√FEŊE (QL/38). It appeared as its stem form feng- “reed” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as a cognate of G. feng “(war) arrow” (GL/34).

Cognates

  • G. feng “arrow, war arrow” ✧ GL/34

Derivations

  • ᴱ√FEŊE “*cut” ✧ QL/038

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√FEŊE > fen[ɸeŋg] > [feŋg] > [fen]✧ QL/038
Early Quenya [GL/34; QL/038] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ando

noun. door

lúto

noun. flood

Cognates

  • G. laud “flood; high tide; tide, motion of the sea” ✧ QL/057

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LUTU “*float” ✧ LT1A/Alqaluntë; QL/057

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LUTU > lūto[lūtō] > [lūto]✧ QL/057

Variations

  • lūto ✧ PME/057; QL/057
Early Quenya [LT1A/Alqaluntë; PME/057; QL/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tarnon

noun. door

Cognates

  • G. tarn “gate” ✧ LT1A/Moritarnon

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TARA “*across”

Element in

  • Eq. Moritarnon “Door of Night” ✧ LT1A/Moritarnon
Early Quenya [LT1A/Moritarnon] Group: Eldamo. Published by

posta

noun. door

Derivations

  • ᴱ√BOÐO “*gate, door” ✧ QL/075

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√BOÐO > posta[boðtā] > [boðta] > [bozta] > [bosta] > [posta]✧ QL/075
Early Quenya [QL/075] Group: Eldamo. Published by