Qenya
kemna
adjective. of earth, earthen
Cognates
- N. cevn “of earth, earthen” ✧ Ety/KEM
Derivations
- ᴹ√KEM “soil, earth” ✧ Ety/KEM
Element in
- ᴺQ. cemnassë “earthenware, pottery”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√KEM > kemna [kemna] ✧ Ety/KEM Variations
- kemina ✧ EtyAC/KEM
An adjective in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “of earth, earthen” derived from the root ᴹ√KEM “soil, earth” (Ety/KEM; EtyAC/KEM). In The Etymologies as published in The Lost Road, Christopher Tolkien gave the form as kemina (LR/363), but in “Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies” Hostetter and Wynne clarified that the actual form was kemna (VT45/19).