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Early Quenya

hir

noun. inwards, interior, inside, heart

Cognates

  • En. gir “interior, inwards, centre, inner parts, inside, heart” ✧ PE13/161

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶ʒirdǝ “entrails, bowels” ✧ PE13/161; PE13/161

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶ʒirdǝ > hir[ɣirdǝ] > [ɣird] > [ɣir] > [hir]✧ PE13/161
ᴱ✶ʒirdī > hirdi[ɣirdī] > [ɣirdi] > [hirdi]✧ PE13/161
Early Quenya [PE13/161] Group: Eldamo. Published by

hi

pronoun. she; 3rd sg. fem. pronoun

Element in

  • Eq. (h)íva “*her; 3rd sg. fem. possessive emphatic” ✧ PE14/052
  • Eq. hi·mante “she ate” ✧ PE14/085
  • Eq. hi·tule ki “she may be coming, may come” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hi·tule nai “she might (possibly) come or be coming” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hi·túlie nai “she might have come” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hi·tulinde nai “she {will >>} might be coming (supposing else also to be the case, which we know is not so)” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hi·tuluva nai “she might (conceivably) come at some time in the future” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hie “she (emphatic); 3rd sg. fem. pronoun” ✧ PE14/052
  • Eq. naike hi·tule “would she might come (of something remotely possible or impossible)” ✧ PE14/059
  • Eq. hya- “*her; 3rd sg. fem. possessive” ✧ PE14/052

Variations

  • hi- ✧ PE14/052; PE14/085
  • i- ✧ PE14/052
Early Quenya [PE14/052; PE14/053; PE14/054; PE14/059; PE14/085] Group: Eldamo. Published by

heru

noun. lord

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√HERE “rule, have power” ✧ LT1A/Valahíru; QL/040

Element in

  • Eq. heruni “lady” ✧ QL/040
  • Eq. heruvesto “husband, (lit.) lord husband” ✧ QL/040

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√HERE > heru[xerū] > [xeru] > [heru]✧ QL/040

Variations

  • hēru ✧ GL/49
Early Quenya [GL/49; LT1A/Valahíru; PME/040; QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by

i-

prefix. she; 3rd sg. fem. pronoun

int

adverb. inwards

Derivations

  • ᴱ√IMI “in, into” ✧ QL/042

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√IMI² > int[imt] > [int]✧ QL/042
Early Quenya [QL/042] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sindi

noun. river

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “river” derived from the root ᴱ√SIŘI [SIÐI] (QL/84). The same word appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/84).

Cognates

  • G. sîr “river” ✧ LT1A/Sirion

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SIÐI “flow” ✧ LT1A/Sirion; QL/084

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SIŘI > sindi[sinðī] > [sinði] > [sindi]✧ QL/084

Variations

  • -sindi ✧ LT1A/Kelusindi
Early Quenya [LT1A/Kelusindi; LT1A/Sirion; PME/084; QL/084] Group: Eldamo. Published by