Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

mie

noun. mist, drizzle

Cognates

  • En. midh “mist, drizzle” ✧ PE13/150

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶míye “mist, drizzle” ✧ PE13/150

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶míye > mie[mije] > [mie]✧ PE13/150

Variations

  • mie ✧ PE13/150
Early Quenya [PE13/150] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mie

noun. bit, small piece

Cognates

  • En. mui “crumb” ✧ PE13/150

Derivations

  • ᴱ✶smeigé “crumb” ✧ PE13/150
    • ᴱ√MIKI “*little”

Variations

  • mie ✧ PE13/150; PE15/70; PE16/143
Early Quenya [PE13/150; PE15/70; PE16/143] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mike

adverb. little, a (little) bit; diminutive

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MIKI “*little”

Element in

  • Eq. mike- “diminutive”

Variations

  • mit ✧ PE14/048
  • mie ✧ PE14/081; PE15/70
  • mimīke ✧ PE14/081; PE15/70
Early Quenya [PE14/048; PE14/080; PE14/081; PE15/70; PE15/74] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mirde

noun. mist

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶mẓđē > mirde[mẓðē] > [mẓðe] > [mizðe] > [mizde] > [mirde]✧ PE12/014
Early Quenya [PE12/014] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qosse

noun. mist

A word for “mist” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√QOŘO [QOÐO] or ᴱ√QOSO (QL/78), also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/78).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√QOÐO “*choke, suffocate, drown” ✧ QL/078

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√QOŘO > qosse[kʷoðsē] > [kʷoðse] > [kʷozse] > [kʷosse]✧ QL/078
Early Quenya [PME/078; QL/078] Group: Eldamo. Published by