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Early Quenya

naike

noun. pain

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ŊAHYA “hurt, grieve” ✧ QL/065

Element in

  • Eq. naiqa “painful” ✧ QL/065
  • Eq. naikele “anguish” ✧ QL/065

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NAẎA > naike[ŋaðʲki] > [ŋaðʲke] > [ŋajke] > [ŋaike] > [naike]✧ QL/065

Variations

  • naike ✧ QL/065
Early Quenya [QL/065] Group: Eldamo. Published by

naike

adverb. would [that]

Changes

  • naiki → naike ✧ PE14/059

Element in

  • Eq. naike hi·tule “would she might come (of something remotely possible or impossible)” ✧ PE14/059

Variations

  • naike ✧ PE14/059
  • naiki ✧ PE14/059 (naiki)
Early Quenya [PE14/059] Group: Eldamo. Published by

narwe

noun. pain

Cognates

  • En. narw “pain” ✧ PE13/150

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶nr:gwé > narwe[nṝgwē] > [nṝgwe] > [nargwe] > [narwe]✧ PE13/150

Variations

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

ongwe

noun. pain

Cognates

  • G. ong “great pain”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√OŊO “*pain” ✧ QL/070

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√ONGO > ongwe[oŋgwē] > [oŋgwe]✧ QL/070
Early Quenya [PE16/145; PME/070; QL/070] Group: Eldamo. Published by

nyéni

noun. she-goat

The word ᴱQ. nyēni “she-goat” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a feminized form of ᴱQ. nyé “bleat” (QL/68). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/68).

Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. nyéni for “(she) goat” for purposes of Neo-Quenya; see ᴺQ. nyé “bleat” for the rationale, and ᴺQ. naico “goat” for possible alternatives.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√NYE(NE) “bleat” ✧ LT1A/Nienna; QL/068

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√NYE(NE) > nyēni[nʲēnī] > [nʲēni]✧ QL/068

Variations

  • nyēni ✧ PME/068; QL/068
Early Quenya [LT1A/Nienna; PME/068; QL/068] Group: Eldamo. Published by