querna

adjective. *turned

VT49/20

Element in

• Q. nuquerna “reversed, inverted, *(lit.) under-turned” ✧ LotR/1123
• ᴺQ. quernamo “proselyte, convert”

Elements

Word	Gloss
quer-	“to turn, to turn, *revolve”

quer-

turn

#quer- vb. "turn" (transitive), attested as pa.t. quernë (VT49:18-20). Compare kuere (kwere) as one variant of a stem meaning "turn" (PE14:65). English intransitive "to turn" requires a reflexive pronoun in Quenya: mo quernë immo "one turned oneself" (VT49:6), in idiomatic English simply "one turned". Passive participle #querna "turned", isolated from nuquerna (q.v.) "under-turned" = reversed, turned upside down. Also in númenquerna "turned westward" (VT49:18), nanquernë "turned back", pl. form of *nanquerna (VT49:17-18, 20)