Qenya
miule
noun. whining, mewing
Derivations
- ᴹ√MIW “whine” ✧ Ety/MIW
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√MIW > miule [miule] ✧ Ety/MIW
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A noun in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “whining, mewing” derived from the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” (Ety/MIW).
Conceptual Development: A similar word ᴱQ. maule “crying, weeping” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s derived from the early root ᴱ√MAWA (QL/60), but that word seems to represent a lower sound, more like the bleating of sheep than the mewing of cats: compare G. maul “the lowing of cattle, bellowing” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/57).