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Qenya 

henulca

adjective. *evil-eyed

A word appearing in Lord of the Rings drafts as part of Treebeard’s description of orcs (SD/68), clearly the equivalent of English “evil-eyed” from the finished text (LotR/979), a combination of hen “eye” and ulca “evil”.

Elements

WordGloss
hen“eye”
ulca“evil; dark, gloomy, sinister, evil; dark, gloomy, sinister; [ᴱQ.] bad, wicked, wrong”

Variations

  • henulka ✧ SD/068

hen

noun. eye

Cognates

  • N. hên “eye” ✧ Ety/KHEN-D-E

Derivations

  • ᴹ√KHEN(DE) “eye; look at, see, observe, direct gaze” ✧ Ety/KHEN-D-E

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√KHEN-D-E > hen[kʰende] > [kʰend] > [xend] > [hend] > [hen]✧ Ety/KHEN-D-E
Qenya [Ety/KHEN-D-E; PE21/52; PE21/61] Group: Eldamo. Published by

úmea

adjective. evil

Cognates

  • ᴺS. um “bad, evil”

Derivations

  • ᴹ√UMU “negative stems” ✧ EtyAC/UGU
    • ᴹ√ “no, not” ✧ Ety/UGU; Ety/GŪ

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√um > úmea[ūmea]✧ EtyAC/UGU

Variations

  • ūmea ✧ Ety/UGU
Qenya [Ety/UGU; EtyAC/UGU] Group: Eldamo. Published by

noun. eye

The word ᴱQ. “eye, pupil” appeared in the Qenya Phonology of the 1910s derived from ᴱ✶þeχē (PE12/21), and ᴱQ. reappeared with the gloss “eye, eyeball” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SEHE [ÞEHE] (QL/82). A similar word ᴹQ. “eye” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/40). Both were likely displaced by Q. hen “eye” < √KHEN.

Variations

  • ✧ PE21/40