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Early Quenya

vande

adverb. well

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VANA “*beauty” ✧ QL/099

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VANA > vande[βandē] > [βande] > [vande]✧ QL/099

Variations

  • vande ✧ QL/099
Early Quenya [QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by

vande

adverb. away, hence, forth

Changes

  • vandavande ✧ QL/099

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VAHA “*depart, travel” ✧ QL/099

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VAHA > vande[βandē] > [βande] > [vande]✧ QL/099

Variations

  • vande ✧ PE15/70 (vande); QL/099
  • vanda ✧ QL/099 (vanda)
Early Quenya [PE15/70; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mande

adverb. well

Cognates

  • G. mai “well”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MANA “*good (moral)” ✧ QL/058

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√MANA > mande[mandē] > [mande]✧ QL/058
Early Quenya [QL/058] Group: Eldamo. Published by

van

noun. way, path

Cognates

  • G. bad “path”

Derivations

  • ᴱ√VAHA “*depart, travel” ✧ LT1A/Qalvanda; QL/099

Element in

  • Eq. Qalvanda “Road of Death” ✧ LT1A/Qalvanda
  • Eq. Uswevanda “Way of Escape” ✧ LT2A/Bad Uthwen
  • Eq. vandl “staff” ✧ QL/099
  • Eq. Vansamírin “Road of the Feast of Double Mirth” ✧ LT1A/Qalvanda

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√VAHA > vand-[βand] > [vand] > [van]✧ QL/099

Variations

  • vandë ✧ LT2A/Bad Uthwen
Early Quenya [LT1A/Qalvanda; LT2A/Bad Uthwen; QL/099] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ausi-

prefix. well

Derivations

  • ᴱ√AW̯A “*wealth” ✧ QL/033

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√AW̯A > ausi-[awsi-] > [ausi-]✧ QL/033
Early Quenya [QL/033] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tampo

noun. well

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s given as ᴱQ. tampo “a well”, derived from the root ᴱ√TṂPṂ “build”; Tolkien considered transferring the word to ᴱ√TAPA “✱stretch” (QL/93). This word also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/93).

Neo-Quenya: I think ᴺQ. tampo “well” might be salvaged in Neo-Quenya as a derivative of √TAM “construct”; it is used this way in Helge Fauskanger’s NQNT (NQNT).

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TṂPṂ > tampo[tṇ̄pō] > [tṇ̄po] > [tampo]✧ QL/093
Early Quenya [PME/093; QL/093] Group: Eldamo. Published by