Early Quenya
venya
adjective. womanl[y]
Changes
venya→ venya “a woman” ✧ PE13/118Cognates
- G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ PE13/118
Derivations
- ᴱ✶u̯enı̯ā̆́- ✧ PE13/118
- ᴱ√GWENE “*maiden; woman” ✧ PE13/118
Variations
- venă ✧ PE13/118
- [ven]in ✧ PE13/118
vena
adjective. womanl[y]
venin
adjective. womanl[y]
A word for {“a woman” >>} “womanl[y]” in Gnomish Lexicon Slips of the 1910s appearing with variants venă and [ven]in, derived from primitive ᴱ✶u̯enı̯ā̆́- (PE13/118).
Conceptual Development: The word for “womanly” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was ᴱQ. anaina, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. anai “woman” (QL/31).