The word ᴱQ. sé “eye, pupil” appeared in the Qenya Phonology of the 1910s derived from ᴱ✶þeχē (PE12/21), and ᴱQ. sē reappeared with the gloss “eye, eyeball” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SEHE [ÞEHE] (QL/82). A similar word ᴹQ. yé “eye” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/40). Both were likely displaced by Q. hen “eye” < √KHEN.
Qenya
henulca
adjective. *evil-eyed
Elements
Word Gloss 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
- ᴹQ. henulca “*evil-eyed”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KHEN-D-E > hen [kʰende] > [kʰend] > [xend] > [hend] > [hen] ✧ Ety/KHEN-D-E
úmea
adjective. evil
Cognates
- ᴺS. um “bad, evil”
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√um > úmea [ūmea] ✧ EtyAC/UGU Variations
- ūmea ✧ Ety/UGU
yé
noun. eye
Variations
- yé ✧ PE21/40
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”.