Early Quenya
ó(vo)
noun. mouth
Variations
- óvo ✧ PE16/136
- ó ✧ PE16/136
penta
noun. nose, beak (probably of such birds as woodpeckers)
Derivations
- ᴱ√PETE “*knock, hammer” ✧ QL/073
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√PETE > penta [pentā] > [penta] ✧ QL/073
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “nose, beak” derived from the early root ᴱ√PETE, the basis of several “hammer” words (QL/73). Tolkien specified that this word was used “probably of such birds as woodpeckers”, but he also marked the word with a “?”.