A word for “twenty first” in the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s appearing as minya yukainen(ya) or min-yukainenya, based on ᴱQ. minya yukainen or min yukainen “twenty one” (PE14/51, 82).
Early Quenya
ya
pronoun. relative pronoun
ya(n)
conjunction. and
ya qensie melmur ne iksa telpe rautanéma
by whom we were told his money had all been stolen from him
yan
conjunction. when
minya yukainen(ya)
ordinal. twenty first
mára mesta an ni véla tye ento, ya rato nea
good-bye until I see you next, and I hope it will be soon
This is a sentence in the “Arctic” language written in a supposed letter from Santa from Tolkien to his children in 1929. In form, it resembles the Quenya of this time period, and most scholars consider it an example of that language, though perhaps somewhat simplified. @@@
en ilta n·ner ya me·qetsime ka húyo ne hwa·telpe ie-rautanéma ompa va húyo
thereupon in came the man {from whom we heard >>} by whom we were told his money had all been stolen from him
kuluvai ya karnevalinar
*of golden feathers and orange-red ones too
-tya
suffix. causative
-ya
suffix. adjective suffix
min-yukainen(ya)
ordinal. twenty first
-a
suffix. adjectival suffix
-ina
suffix. adjectival suffix
-ra
suffix. adjectival suffix
-ea
suffix. adjectival suffix
-noina
suffix. adjective suffix
-noite
suffix. adjective suffix
-se
suffix. adjective suffix
-voite
suffix. adjective suffix
-wa
suffix. adjective suffix
The usual word for “and” in the 1910s was ᴱQ. ya(n) (PE15/69, VT40/8). It was derived from the early root ᴱ√YA (or possibly ᴱ√(D)YṆTṆ) in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/104-105). In his later writings, the usual word for “and” was Q. ar, but something like ya(n) survived in the “dual” conjunction yo “both ... and”.