mat

noun. food, meal, meal, [ᴱQ.] meal time; [ᴹQ.] food

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”.

matie

noun. eating

The gerund form of the verb mat- “eat” appearing the (1948) 3rd. sg. possessive form matietta “his eating” (PE22/119); in later Quenya this would be matierya.

mat-

verb. to eat

mattima

adjective. edible

matie ye mára

eating is (a) good (thing)

vesta

noun. matrimony, matrimony, [ᴱQ.] state of marriage

A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “matrimony” derived from the root ᴹ√BES “wed” (Ety/BES). The same word ᴱQ. vesta appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “state of marriage”, but there it was based on the early root ᴱ√VEŘE [VEÐE] (QL/101). It was also mentioned as a cognate of ᴱN. gwedhw “matrimony” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, but there it was a derivative of ᴱ√wed- (PE13/146).

alanwa

adjective. fully grown, adult, mature

ala-

verb. to grow

sinye

noun. evening

morko

noun. bear

A noun for “bear” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶morókō under the root ᴹ√MOROK (Ety/MORÓK).

má

noun. hand

nat

noun. thing

vanima

adjective. fair

vestale

noun. wedding

vinye

noun. evening

yuale

noun. twilight

yúkale

noun. twilight