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Early Quenya

qinde

noun. womanliness, femininity; (concr.) women as a whole

A noun for “womanliness, femininity” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variant qinne, both derived from the root ᴱ√QIMI (QL/31). In the entry, this word was predeceded by the definite article in parenthesis (i) and Tolkien gave it the alternate gloss “(concr.) women as a whole”; by this I assume Tolkien mean qinde by itself meant “femininity”, but with the definite article i qinde meant “women as a whole”.

Cognates

  • G. gwinios “womanhood (time or state)”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√QIMI “*woman” ✧ QL/077

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√QIMI > (i) qinde[giwimdē] > [giwindē] > [gwindē] > [gwinde] > [kwinde] > [kʷinde]✧ QL/077

Variations

  • (i) qinde ✧ QL/077
  • qinne ✧ QL/077
Early Quenya [QL/077] Group: Eldamo. Published by

qinne

noun. womanliness, femininity; (concr.) women as a whole