Qenya
sinya
adjective. new, new, *current
Cognates
- N. sein “new” ✧ Ety/SI
Derivations
- ᴹ√SI “this, here, now” ✧ Ety/SI
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√SI > sinya [sinja] ✧ Ety/SI
vinya
adjective. young, new
Changes
vinya→ winya ✧ EtyAC/GWINCognates
- N. gwîn “young” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR
Derivations
- ᴹ√WIN “new, fresh, young” ✧ EtyAC/GWIN; EtyAC/WIR
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√GWIN > winya [gwinja] > [ɣwinja] > [winja] ✧ EtyAC/GWIN ᴹ√WINI > vinya [winja] > [vinja] ✧ EtyAC/WIR Variations
- winya ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (
winya)- vinya ✧ EtyAC/GWIN (
vinya); EtyAC/WIR
sinye
noun. evening
Cognates
- N. thîn “evening” ✧ Ety/THIN
Derivations
- ᴹ√THIN “*grey” ✧ Ety/THIN
Element in
- ᴺQ. sinyemat “dinner, evening meal”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√THIN > sinye [tʰinje] > [θinje] > [sinje] ✧ Ety/THIN
vinye
noun. evening
Changes
vinya→ vinye “evening” ✧ EtyAC/WINCognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶winyā > winya > vinya [winjā] > [winja] > [vinja] ✧ Ety/WIN ᴹ✶winyē > vinye [winjē] > [winje] > [vinje] ✧ EtyAC/WIN Variations
vinya✧ Ety/WIN (vinya)
nessa
adjective. young
Cognates
- N. neth “young” ✧ Ety/NETH
Derivations
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶neth-rā > nessa [netʰrā] > [netsā] > [netsa] > [nessa] ✧ Ety/NETH
tet(ta)
noun. baby
Variations
- tet ✧ PE21/19; PE21/24
- tetta ✧ PE21/19
A word in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s glossed “baby” with short and long variants tet and tetta (PE21/19).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had ᴱQ. tyetl “a tiny baby” under the early root ᴱ√TYETE “give suck” (QL/50), a word that also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “babe” (PME/50). This became ᴱQ. tetta “baby” in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/135), and finally tet/tetta in the Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s as noted above. There are no signs of this word thereafter.