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Early Quenya

tessa

noun. maid, maiden

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a maid, maiden” but with no explicit root given (QL/90). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “maid”.

Cognates

  • G. tess(il) “little flower; †maiden”

Element in

  • Eq. tessara “maiden, maidenly” ✧ QL/091
  • Eq. tessare “little maid” ✧ QL/091

Variations

  • Tessa ✧ QL/091
Early Quenya [PME/091; QL/091] Group: Eldamo. Published by