Early Quenya
liske
noun. sedge, reeds
Cognates
- G. lisg “reed, sedge” ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion; PE15/28; QL/055
Element in
- Eq. Ardaliskea “Place of Reeds”
Variations
- liskë ✧ LT2A/Arlisgion; LT2A/Arlisgion
- LISKE ✧ QL/055
fen
noun. reed
Cognates
- G. feng “arrow, war arrow” ✧ GL/34
Derivations
- ᴱ√FEŊE “*cut” ✧ QL/038
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√FEŊE > fen [ɸeŋg] > [feŋg] > [fen] ✧ QL/038
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “reed” under the early root ᴱ√FEŊE (QL/38). It appeared as its stem form feng- “reed” in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as a cognate of G. feng “(war) arrow” (GL/34).