Qenya
fenda
noun. threshold
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√PHEN “*door” ✧ Ety/PHEN
Element in
- ᴺQ. fendassë “doorway, gateway”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√PHEN > fenda [pʰenda] > [ɸenda] > [fenda] ✧ Ety/PHEN
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “threshold” derived from the root ᴹ√PHEN (Ety/PHEN). See Q. fendë “door” for a discussion of later derivatives of this root.