An unglossed word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing next to female ᴹQ. inimeite (Ety/INI), likely meaning “✱masculine” as an adjectival form of ᴹQ. hanu “male” (Ety/ƷAN).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had the adjective ᴱQ. anuvoite “male, masculine” as an elaboration of ᴱQ. anu “a male” (QL/31).
A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “a male, man (of Men or Elves), male animal” derived from the root ᴹ√ƷAN “male” (Ety/ƷAN). The first version of this entry gave it the gloss “male (of all creatures)” (EtyAC/ƷAN).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s this word appeared as ᴱQ. anu “a male” (QL/31), also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “man” (PME/31).