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Early Quenya

lingwe

noun. snake, worm

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “snake” with variants lingwe and lingo, an elaboration of ᴱQ. lin (ling-) of the same meaning (QL/54). Lingwe “snake” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/54), but in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it was glossed “worm” (PE16/145). In later writings, lingwë was “fish” (NM/336; Ety/LIW).

Cognates

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Variations

  • lingo ✧ QL/054
Early Quenya [PE16/145; PME/054; QL/054] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ingwe

noun. fish

Changes

  • engweingwe ✧ PE16/145

Cognates

  • G. ing “fish”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√IWI “*fish” ✧ QL/043

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√IWI > ingwe[iŋwi] > [iŋwe] > [iŋgwe]✧ QL/043

Variations

  • engwe ✧ PE16/145 (engwe)
Early Quenya [PE16/145; PME/043; QL/043; QL/049; QL/091; QL/097] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lingo

noun. snake

lin

noun. snake

A word for “snake” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, with a stem form of {linge- >>} ling- (QL/54).

Cognates

  • G. ling “small snake”

Derivations

Element in

Variations

  • lin ✧ QL/043
  • Lin² ✧ QL/054
Early Quenya [QL/043; QL/054] Group: Eldamo. Published by

oqi

noun. snake

Derivations

  • ᴱ√OQO “curve, bend” ✧ QL/070

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√OQO > oqi[okʷī] > [okʷi]✧ QL/070
Early Quenya [PME/070; QL/070] Group: Eldamo. Published by