Quenya 

mixa

wet

mixa ("ks")adj. "wet" (MISK); later sources have néna, nenya

miχa

adjective. sharp-pointed

missë

wet, damp, rain

[missë] adj.ornoun "wet, damp, rain" (VT45:35)

ninda

adjective. wet

nenda

adjective. wet

Cognates

  • S. nîn “wet, *watery” ✧ PE17/052

Derivations

  • nēnā “wet” ✧ PE17/052; PE17/167
    • NEN “water, water, [ᴱ√] flow” ✧ PE17/052; PE17/167
  • NEN “water, water, [ᴱ√] flow” ✧ PE17/167

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
nén“water, water, [ᴱQ.] river”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
nēnā > nenya[nenja]✧ PE17/052
NĒ̆N > nenda[nenda]✧ PE17/167

Variations

  • nenya ✧ PE17/052
  • ninda ✧ PE17/052
  • nēna ✧ PE17/167
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nenya

wet

nenya adj. "wet" (PE17:52), also néna, q.v. Nenya as the name of a Ring of Power seems to imply *"(thing) related to water", since this Ring was associated with that element (SA:nen).

nenya

adjective. wet

néna

wet

néna adj. "wet" (PE17:167). Cf. nenya, mixa.

néna

adjective. wet

linqui

wet

linqui ("q")adj. "wet" (MC:216; Tolkien's later Quenya has linquë.)

linquë

wet

linquë ("q") (1) adj. "wet" _(LINKWI). In early "Qenya", this word was glossed "water" (LT1:262)_, and "wet" was linqui or liquin, q.v.

liquin

wet

liquin ("q")adj. "wet" (LT1:262; Tolkien's later Quenya has linquë.)

wet

wet

wet, see we #2

mixa Reconstructed

adjective. sharp-pointed

An adjective meaning “sharp-pointed” appearing in notes explaining the etymology of the name S. Maeglin from around 1971 (WJ/337, 339 note #10). Christopher Tolkien wrote this word as miχa with a χ (Greek chi), but the primitive form of this word was given as ✶mikrā. Since [[aq|ancient [r] became [s] after voiceless stops like [k]]] in Quenya (PE19/83), it is more likely this word was pronounced [miksa], and the actual form was mixa (that is with an “x”).

Cognates

  • S. megr “sharp-pointed” ✧ WJ/337

Derivations

  • mikrā “sharp-pointed” ✧ WJ/337
    • MIK “pierce” ✧ WJ/337

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
mikrā > miχa[mikrā] > [miksā] > [miksa]✧ WJ/337

Variations

  • miχa ✧ WJ/337