Early Quenya
mear
noun. gore, blood
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√MEHE “ooze‽” ✧ LT1A/Meássë; QL/060
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MEHE > mear [mexarn] > [mexar] > [meɣar] > [mear] ✧ QL/060
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A noun appearing as ᴱQ. mear “gore” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√MEHE “ooze‽”, with stem forms mearn- or meas- (QL/60). The H in the root represents voiceless velar spirant χ, which was voiced to ɣ and then vanished between vowels in Early Qenya (PE12/18).
Neo-Quenya: I would adapt this word as ᴺQ. mehar “gore” for purposes of Neo-Quenya since the voicing of medial χ did not occur in later Quenya. I would assume it is derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√MEKH of similar meaning, perhaps from primitive ✱mekhar or ✱mekhār.