Early Quenya
húme
cardinal. thousand; †great number
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
húme
cardinal. thousand; †great number
The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had several different words for “thousand”. The manuscript version had ᴱQ. {súme >> húme >> ellume >>} húme “thousand”, originally meaning “a great number” (PE14/50 and note #56). The typescript version had ᴱQ. maite (maisi-) “thousand” (PE14/83).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I use ᴺQ. húmë “thousand” since Q. maitë means “handy; handed” in Tolkien’s later writings. Some Neo-Quenya writers prefer ᴺQ. mencë “thousand” as a hypothetical cognate to S. meneg.