Early Quenya
teste
noun. small worm
Cognates
- G. tereg “worm”
Derivations
- ᴱ√TEÐE “pierce, boring” ✧ QL/091
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√TEŘE > teste [teðtē] > [teðte] > [tezte] > [teste] ✧ QL/091
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A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “small worm” from the early root ᴱ√TEŘE [TEÐE] “pierce, boring” (QL/91).