Early Quenya
vai
proper name. Outer Ocean
Changes
- Vai → Vaiya ✧ LT1/086
Vai→ Vai “the Sea” ✧ QL/100Cognates
- G. Bai “Outer Seas” ✧ GL/21; LT1A/Vai
Derivations
- ᴱ√VAẎA “enfold, wind about” ✧ LT1A/Vai; QL/100
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√VAẎA > Vai [βaðʲ] > [vaðʲ] > [vaj] > [vai] ✧ QL/100
-víke
suffix. as
Element in
- Eq.
noldovike“like a gnome, after the gnomes’ way” ✧ PE15/69 (noldovike)Variations
- vīke ✧ QL/101
ve
preposition. as, like
Cognates
- G. ba “in” ✧ GL/21
Derivations
- ᴱ√VĪ “as” ✧ QL/101
Element in
- Eq. vea “similar, like” ✧ QL/101
- Eq. ve kaivo-kalma “a corpse-candle” ✧ MC/214
- Eq. ve maiwin qaine “like gulls wailing” ✧ MC/213
- Eq. v’ematte sinqi Eldamar “*that they call to mind the gems of Elven-home” ✧ VT40/08
- Eq. ve sangar voro úmeai “*like throngs ever large” ✧ VT40/08
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√VĪ > ve [βi] > [βe] > [ve] ✧ QL/101 Variations
- Ve ✧ VT40/08