men

noun. place, spot

Derivations

• ᴹ√MEN “go, proceed” ✧ Ety/MEN

Element in

• ᴹQ. formen “north, right hand”
• ᴹQ. hyarmen “south, left hand”
• ᴹQ. Ilmen “Place of Light”
• ᴺQ. mulmanen “mill”
• ᴹQ. símen “here”
• ᴺQ. combemen “museum”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√MEN > men	[men]	✧ Ety/MEN

atan

noun. Man

Element in

• ᴹQ. atani koitar endoresse “men live in Middle-earth” ✧ PE22/125

veo

noun. man

Derivations

• ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
  • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶wegō > veo	[wegō] > [weɣō] > [weo] > [veo]	✧ Ety/WEG

mana

pronoun. who

Element in

• ᴹQ. manar i·ennor/lie i me·kenner “who (are or were) the persons/people that we saw?” ✧ PE22/124

mintye

noun. peak

A word in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s glossed “peak” given as an example for the Quenya declension of nouns ending in -ye (PE22/44). It is probably a derivative of ᴹ√MIN “stand alone, stick out”.

Cognates

• S. min “peak”

Derivations

• ᴹ√MIN “stand alone, stick out”

-ma

suffix. instrumental

Element in

• ᴹQ. sanguma “press, *thing that presses” ✧ PE21/08
• ᴹQ. tyelma “ending”

nin

noun. nose, beak

Derivations

• ᴹ✶nengǝ “beak, nose” ✧ PE21/26
  • ᴹ√NEÑ “*nose”

aikale

noun. peak

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “a peak”, an abstract noun formation of ᴹQ. aika “sharp” (Ety/AYAK).

Elements

Word	Gloss
aika	“sharp”
-le	“abstract noun”

esse

noun. place

Derivations

• ᴹ√ES “*place” ✧ EtyAC/ES

Element in

• ᴹQ. essea “in place, local” ✧ EtyAC/ES (essea)

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√ES > esse	[esse]	✧ EtyAC/ES

Variations

• esse ✧ EtyAC/ES (esse)