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Early Quenya

kailen

noun. throat, gullet

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “throat, gullet”, based on the early root ᴱ√KAẎA (QL/46). It also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “throat” (PME/46).

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√KAẎA > kailen[kaðʲlen] > [kajlen] > [kailen]✧ QL/046
Early Quenya [PME/046; QL/046] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qerka

noun. throat

Cognates

  • G. cwerc “throat” ✧ GL/28

Element in

Early Quenya [GL/28; PE16/136] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qelqa

noun. throat

The word ᴱQ. qerka appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as the cognate of G. cwerc “throat” (GL/28). ᴱQ. qerka “throat” appeared again in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/136), but in a list of body parts from this same period it was ᴱQ. qelqa “throat” (PE14/117). There are no signs of these words in Tolkien’s later writings.

Early Quenya [PE14/117] Group: Eldamo. Published by