Quende#

noun. Elf

Elf

quendë

elf

quendë noun "Elf", the little-used analogical sg. of Quendi, q.v. (KWEN(ED), WJ:361)

quendë

noun. Elf, (lit.) One That Speaks

Cognates

• T. Pendë “Elf (as a race)” ✧ WJ/375; WJI/Pendi; WJ/361

Derivations

• ✶kwende “speaker, elf” ✧ PE17/137; PE17/141; PE17/152
  • √KWENED “spoken, articulate, spoken, articulate; [ᴹ√] Elf” ✧ PE17/137
  • √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ PE19/093
    • √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392
  • √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ PE17/140; WJ/360
  • √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392
• √KWENED “spoken, articulate, spoken, articulate; [ᴹ√] Elf” ✧ PE19/093
  • √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ PE19/093
  • √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392
• √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ SA/quen; WJ/361; WJ/391
  • √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392

Element in

• Q. Calaquendi “Elves of the Light, (lit.) Light Elves” ✧ SA/quen; WJ/361
• Q. Ilquendatar “Father of All Quendi”
• Q. Laiquendi “Green-elves” ✧ SA/quen
• Q. manen lambë Quendion ahyanë “How did the language of the Elves change?” ✧ PM/395
• Q. Moriquendi “Elves of the Darkness, (lit.) Dark Elves” ✧ SA/quen; WJ/361
• Q. Quendelië “Elf-race”
• Q. Quenderin “Quendian, of the Quendi, belonging to the Elves as a whole”
• Q. Quendil “Elf-friend”
• Q. Quendingoldo “*Loremaster of the Elves”

Elements

Word	Gloss
quet-	“to say, speak, tell, to say, speak, tell, [ᴱQ.] talk”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶kwendī > Quendi	[kwendī] > [kwendi]	✧ PE17/137
✶kwenedē > qende	[kwenedē] > [kwendē] > [kwende]	✧ PE17/141
✶kwened- > Quendi	[kwenedē] > [kwendē] > [kwende]	✧ PE17/152
√kwened > quend-	[kwenede] > [kwende]	✧ PE19/093
√quen- > Quendi	[kwende]	✧ SA/quen
√KWEN > quende	[kwende]	✧ WJ/361
√KWEN > Quendi	[kwende]	✧ WJ/391

Variations

• quende ✧ NM/095; WJ/361
• Quende ✧ PE17/137; WJ/372; WJI/Quendi
• qende ✧ PE17/141

Quendi

zF2% noun. elves

Quendi "Elves" as a race (analogical sg. quendë, not much used) (WJ:361;SA:quen-/quet-, WJ:372, KWEN(ED), spelt "qende, Qendi" in Etym). Gen. pl. Quendion (PM:395)

Quendi

elvish woman

quendi noun "Elvish woman", pl. quendir given (MR:229; changed by Tolkien from quendë pl. quender); the sg. quendi must not be confused with the pl. Quendi, see above. Compare masc. quendu.

Quendingoldo

elves

Quendingoldo masc. name, apparently compound of Quendi "Elves" and -ngoldo "Noldo", Sindarin Pengolodh, a loremaster of Gondolin. (PM:401, 404-405, VT48:5) Shorter form Quengoldo (PM:404, VT48:14)

-i

-i

-i nominative plural ending regularly used on nouns ending in a consonant and in -ë; in the latter case, -ë is displaced (e.g. Quendë pl. Quendi).