Qenya
mat
noun. food, meal, meal, [ᴱQ.] meal time; [ᴹQ.] food
Cognates
- ᴺS. mâd “meal”
Derivations
- ᴹ√MAT “eat”
Element in
Variations
- -mat ✧ PE21/32
mat-
verb. to eat
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√MAT “eat” ✧ Ety/MAT; EtyAC/MAT; PE22/102
Element in
- ᴹQ. (a)·matis “it is eaten (one eats it)” ✧ PE22/107
- ᴹQ. etta matie masta “his eating bread” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. etta matie the ye úmahta “his eating it is a nuisance” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. helávate mate “they will not eat it” ✧ PE22/127
- ᴹQ. matie “eating”
- ᴹQ. matie ye mára “eating is (a) good (thing)” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. mattima “edible”
- ᴹQ. nila tyaze matie makse “I do not like eating meat” ✧ PE22/120
- ᴹQ. níla tyaze matite sí “I don’t like eating (to eat) it now” ✧ PE22/120
- ᴹQ. ni·la nyára pa matie “I am not talking about eating” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. te ye matina “it is eaten” ✧ PE22/107
- ᴹQ. Túro matie masta “Túro’s eating bread” ✧ PE22/119
- ᴹQ. yára Túro mante ilqa masta ha mé·ne úmahtale “old Túro’s eating of all the bread was a nuisance to us” ✧ PE22/119
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MAT > mat- [mat-] ✧ Ety/MAT ᴹ√MAT > mat- [mat-] ✧ EtyAC/MAT
má
noun. hand
Cognates
- On. mō “hand” ✧ Ety/MAƷ
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶māʒ > mā [māɣ] > [mā] ✧ Ety/MAƷ ᴹ✶magā > mā [magā] > [maɣā] > [mā] ✧ EtyAC/MAƷ ᴹ✶mā > mā [mā] ✧ PE18/035 Variations
- mā ✧ Ety/MAƷ; EtyAC/MAƷ (
mā); PE18/035; PE21/40; PE22/021
A noun glossed “food, meal” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with a stem form matt- (PE21/27), clearly based on ᴹ√MAT “eat”. Tolkien specified that as the suffix -mat, it was the basis of names for meals (PE21/32). The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910 also had ᴱQ. mat (matt-) “meal, meal time” under the early root ᴱ√MATA “eat” (QL/59).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use this word only for “meal”, and would instead use Q. matta for “food”.