Early Quenya
maite
cardinal. thousand
Element in
Variations
- maite ✧ PE14/083
maite
adjective. handed
Element in
- Eq. erumaite “one handed” ✧ PE14/084
Variations
- maite ✧ PE14/084 (maite)
maite
noun. maple
Changes
mavain→ maite ✧ PE16/140Elements
Word Gloss má “hand” Variations
- maite ✧ PE16/140
- mavain ✧ PE16/140 (
mavain)
túrea
adjective. mighty
Variations
- tūrea ✧ QL/095 (tūrea)
tuksainen
cardinal. thousand
mára
adjective. mighty, power[ful], doughty; good, excellent, useful (of things)
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√MAHA “grasp” ✧ QL/057
Element in
- Eq. i limbelu tuktalla nai mára “*the long search may be good” ✧ PE15/32
- Eq. mal “better, best” ✧ PE14/081
- Eq. malda “better, best” ✧ PE14/081
- Eq. mára mesta an ni véla tye ento, ya rato nea “good-bye until I see you next, and I hope it will be soon” ✧ LFC/030
- Eq. néri ur natsi nostalen máre “*men are not beings good by nature” ✧ PE15/32
- Eq. nostalen mára “good by nature” ✧ GG/10
- Eq. qentien no máre nar i hondor “*than good, I said, are the hearts” ✧ PE15/32
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MAHA > māra [maxrā] > [maxra] > [maɣra] > [māra] ✧ QL/057 Variations
- māra ✧ GG/10; PE13/122; PE15/32; QL/057
- Mára ✧ LFC/030
- mā-ra ✧ PE13/125
- măra ✧ PE14/048
- mara ✧ PE14/081; PE15/73
- mára ✧ PE16/137; PE16/140
tuksa kainen
cardinal. thousand
Derivations
Element in
- Eq. tuksainenya “thousandth” ✧ PE14/050
Variations
- tuksakainen ✧ PE14/050
- tuksainen ✧ PE14/050; PE14/083
A word appearing as {mavain >>} ᴱQ. maite “maple” in Early Qenya Word-lists (PE16/140), likely based on ᴱQ. má “hand” and perhaps simply ᴱQ. maite “handed” as suggested by Wynne and Gilson.
Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. mavoisi “chestnut” from the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s also seems to be based on an adjectival form of ᴱQ. má “hand”, seen more clearly in its fuller name ᴱQ. alda mavoite “chestnut” where the second element is ᴱQ. mavoite “having hands” (QL/57; PME/57).
Neo-Quenya: Given the ambiguity of the form maite, for purposes of Neo-Quenya I would restore the deleted form as ᴺQ. mavaina “maple” as a combination of má “hand” and [ᴺQ.] vaina “clad”. For “chestnut” I would use ᴺQ. olmos (olmoss-) inspired by G. omlos (GL/62).