Early Quenya
keket
noun. pheasant
Changes
kekek/keket→ keket ✧ QL/046Derivations
- ᴱ√KEKE “cluck” ✧ QL/046
Element in
- ᴺQ. hendelúpea cecet “peafowl, (lit.) eye-plumed pheasant”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√KEKE > keket [kekekt] > [keket] ✧ QL/046 Variations
- kekek/keket ✧ QL/046 (
kekek/keket)
A word appearing as ᴱQ. keket (kekekt-) “pheasant” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, derived from the early root ᴱ√KEKE “cluck” (QL/46).
Neo-Quenya: I would retain this word as ᴺQ. cecet “pheasant” based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√KEK “cluck”.