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querna

adjective. *turned

An adjective form of the verb quer- “to turn”, appearing as an element in nuquerna from The Lord of the Rings appendices, translated “reversed, inverted” but more literally “✱under-turned” (LotR/1123). This adjective also appeared as an element in the (rejected) word númenquerna “✱west-turned” in drafts of the Ambidexters Sentence from 1969 (VT49/20).

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