Early Quenya
qinqa
adjective. drooping, languid
Derivations
- ᴱ√QIQI “*droop” ✧ QL/077
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QIQI > qinqa [kʷiŋkʷā] > [kʷiŋkʷa] ✧ QL/077
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A word appearing as ᴱQ. qinqa “drooping, languid” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QIQI (QL/77).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I’d retain this word as ᴺQ. quinqua based on a Neo-Root ᴺ√KWIK(W), but only with the sense “languid”; for “drooping” I’d use later nimpa. I’d use also quinqua for “✱lazy” but not necessarily in a negative sense, so also meaning “✱relaxed”.