Early Quenya
ungwe
noun. spider
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴱ√GUŊU “*spider” ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti; QL/098
Element in
- Eq. Ungweliante “Great Spider Who Enmeshes” ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti; LT1I/Ungweliantë; QL/098
- Eq. Ungwe Fuiva “the Spider of Night” ✧ PME/104
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√GUŊU > ungwe [ɣuŋwē] > [ɣuŋwe] > [uŋwe] > [uŋgwe] ✧ QL/098 Variations
- ung-we ✧ GL/43 (
ung-we)- ungwë ✧ LT1A/Ungwë Lianti
- Ungwë ✧ LT1I/Ungweliantë
- Ungwe ✧ PME/104
kangaris
noun. spider
Derivations
- ᴱ√KAŊA “weave, twine” ✧ QL/045
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√KANGA > kangaris [kaŋgarist] > [kaŋgaris] ✧ QL/045
maldor
noun. agony
Derivations
- ᴱ√MBALA “crush, hurt, pain, damage, give maim to” ✧ QL/058
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√MALA³ > maldor [mbaldor] > [maldor] ✧ QL/058
A word for “spider” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, based on the verb ᴱQ. kanga- “weave, spin” from the early root ᴱ√KANGA (QL/45), also appearing in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/45).