Early Quenya
mie
noun. mist, drizzle
Cognates
- En. midh “mist, drizzle” ✧ PE13/150
Derivations
- ᴱ✶míye “mist, drizzle” ✧ PE13/150
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶míye > mie [mije] > [mie] ✧ PE13/150 Variations
- mie ✧ PE13/150
mie
noun. bit, small piece
Cognates
- En. mui “crumb” ✧ PE13/150
Derivations
Variations
- mie ✧ PE13/150; PE15/70; PE16/143
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
mirde
noun. mist
Derivations
- ᴱ✶mẓđē “mist” ✧ PE12/014
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ✶mẓđē > mirde [mẓðē] > [mẓðe] > [mizðe] > [mizde] > [mirde] ✧ PE12/014
qosse
noun. mist
Derivations
- ᴱ√QOÐO “*choke, suffocate, drown” ✧ QL/078
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QOŘO > qosse [kʷoðsē] > [kʷoðse] > [kʷozse] > [kʷosse] ✧ QL/078
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).