mana

pronoun. who, what, which

man

pronoun. what

mana le·qente

what did you say?

mana só

*what of that (would ask for a fresh opinion rather than a choice among those already expressed)

mana tana márion

which of those houses

mana (már) tanion

which of those houses

mana nér

what man

mana nís

what woman

mane

pronoun. who

le·qente mana?

what did you say?

qalin

adjective. dead, dead, [ᴱQ.] dying

An adjective for “dead” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWAL “die (in pain)” (Ety/KWAL).

Conceptual Development: The adjective ᴱQ. qalin meant “dead” all the way back in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s where it was derived from the early root ᴱ√QALA “die” (QL/76; PME/76). In the Qenya Lexicon it has an archaic variant ᴱQ. †qalna (QL/76). In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, qalin appeared in the stative construction qalinya {“is dead” >>} “is dying” (PE16/140).