This word first appeared as ᴱQ. ar (arn-) “child” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/32) and its stem form arn- appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/32). The word reappeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/135), but in the Early Noldorin Dictionary the Qenya form was given as arne. In the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, the word appeared as ᴹQ. aran (arn-) “child” (PE21/19), but there is no sign of it from this point forward, probably displaced by Q. aran “king”.
Qenya
selde
noun. child [f.]
Changes
selde→ selde “daughter” ✧ Ety/SEL-DCognates
- N. iell “daughter” ✧ Ety/SEL-D
Derivations
- ᴹ√SEL(D) “child, child; *daughter” ✧ Ety/SEL-D; Ety/SEL-D
Element in
- ᴹQ. Tindómerel “Nightingale, (lit.) Daughter of Twilight”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SEL-D > selde [selde] ✧ Ety/SEL-D ᴹ√SEL-D > selde [selde] ✧ Ety/SEL-D
seldo
noun. child, child [m.], *boy
Derivations
- ᴹ√SEL(D) “child, child; *daughter” ✧ Ety/SEL-D
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SEL-D > seldo [seldo] ✧ Ety/SEL-D
yelde
noun. daughter
Cognates
- N. iell “daughter” ✧ Ety/YEL
Derivations
- ᴹ√YEL “daughter” ✧ Ety/YEL
Derivatives
- ᴹQ.
-iel“daughter” ✧ Ety/YELPhonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√YEL > yelde [jelde] ✧ Ety/YEL
yen(de)
noun. daughter
Changes
yendi→ yende “agent (female)” ✧ EtyAC/ƷANDerivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶yend > yende [jende] ✧ Ety/YŌ ᴹ√YEN > yende [jende] ✧ EtyAC/ƷAN Variations
- yende ✧ Ety/YŌ; EtyAC/ƷAN (
yende)- yen ✧ Ety/YŌ
- yendi ✧ EtyAC/ƷAN (
yendi)
-iel
suffix. daughter
Cognates
- N. -iel “daughter; feminine suffix” ✧ Ety/YEL
Derivations
Element in
- ᴹQ. Almáriel
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹQ. yelde > -iel [-jel] > [-iel] ✧ Ety/YEL Variations
-ield✧ EtyAC/ÑEL (-ield)-iel✧ EtyAC/YEL (-iel)
aran
noun. child
Derivations
- ᴹ✶arān
Variations
- aran ✧ PE21/19
-ien
suffix. daughter
Derivations
- ᴹ√YEN “daughter” ✧ Ety/YŌ
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√yēn > ien [-jen] > [-ien] ✧ Ety/YŌ Variations
- ien ✧ EtyAC/YŌ
A word for a (male) child in The Etymologies of the 1930s added to its entry when the meaning of the root ᴹ√SEL-D was changed from “daughter” to “child” (Ety/SEL-D). It was written above its feminine equivalent ᴹQ. selde and an apparently neuter form ᴹQ. selda was written to the right, making seldo likely the masculine form as suggested by Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne (EtyAC/SEL-D), hence = “✱boy”.