A word for “spider” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, based on the verb ᴱQ. kanga- “weave, spin” from the early root ᴱ√KANGA (QL/45), also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/45).
Early Quenya
liantasse
noun. vine
Variations
- liantassë ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti
kangaris
noun. spider
Derivations
- ᴱ√KAŊA “weave, twine” ✧ QL/045
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√KANGA > kangaris [kaŋgarist] > [kaŋgaris] ✧ QL/045
ungwe
noun. spider
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√GUŊU “*spider” ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti; QL/098
Element in
- Eq. Ungweliante “Great Spider Who Enmeshes” ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti; LT1I/Ungweliantë; QL/098
- Eq. Ungwe Fuiva “the Spider of Night” ✧ PME/104
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√GUŊU > ungwe [ɣuŋwē] > [ɣuŋwe] > [uŋwe] > [uŋgwe] ✧ QL/098 Variations
- ung-we ✧ GL/43 (
ung-we)- ungwë ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti
- Ungwë ✧ LT1I/Ungweliantë
- Ungwe ✧ PME/104
A word appearing as ᴱQ. liantasse “vine” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, an elaboration of ᴱQ. liante “tendril” under the early root ᴱ√LI+ya “unite many as one” (QL/53).
Neo-Quenya: The later root ᴹ√SLIG was the basis for words like ᴹQ. liante “spider” and ᴹQ. lia “fine thread, spider filament”, so I think ᴺQ. liantassë “vine” can be salvaged as a derivative of this root, perhaps originally meaning “✱an entwining”. This word was used for “vine” in Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT).