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Early Quenya

lise

noun. grease, butter

Changes

  • lise → lise “greasy” ✧ PE16/141

Element in

  • Eq. lisiva “greasy” ✧ PE16/141
Early Quenya [PE16/115; PE16/141] Group: Eldamo. Published by

líse

adjective. sweet

Cognates

  • G. glis “sweet” ✧ GL/39

Derivations

  • ᴱ√LISI “sweetness” ✧ QL/054

Element in

  • Eq. lísele “sweetness” ✧ QL/055

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LISI > līse[līsē] > [līse]✧ QL/054

Variations

  • lîse ✧ GL/39
  • līse ✧ QL/055
Early Quenya [GL/39; QL/055] Group: Eldamo. Published by

suksa

adjective. sweet

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SUKU “*sweet” ✧ QL/087

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SUKU > suksa[suksā] > [suksa]✧ QL/087
Early Quenya [QL/087] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sutya

adjective. sweet

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SUKU “*sweet” ✧ QL/087

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SUKU > sutya[sukjā] > [sukja] > [sutja]✧ QL/087
Early Quenya [QL/087] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mange

noun. grease

A word for “grease” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived the early root ᴱ√MṆGṆ (QL/62), with syllabic ṇ becoming an [aŋ] which was the most common result in Early Qenya (PE12/10).

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√MṆGṆ > mange¹[mṇgi] > [mṇge] > [maŋge]✧ QL/062
Early Quenya [QL/062] Group: Eldamo. Published by