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Q. matta n. “food” (Category: Food)

Q. matta, n. “food” (Category: Food)

A noun for “food” from the Common Eldarin: Verb Structure (EVS2) of the early 1950s, derived from primitive ✶matnā, originally an ancient adjective meaning “eaten” (PE22/136).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s the word for “food” was ᴱQ. matl under the early root ᴱ√MATA (QL/59). This became ᴱQ. {masta} >> matso in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/141). In EVS2 the word was originally manna “food”, but this was struck through and replaced by matta (PE22/136 note #36), which likely reflects Tolkien’s shift in the phonetic developments of primitive tn, so that tn became tt rather than nn as it did in Tolkien’s earlier writings (PE19/85 and note #79).

Neo-Quenya: I find the phonetic developments associated with the above sound change to be problematic for various reasons. Therefore, I prefer to assume the primitive form of this word was an ancient noun: *mattā.

References ✧ PE22/136

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matnā > matta [matnā] > [mattā] > [matta] ✧ PE22/136

ᴱQ. matso n. “food” (Category: Food)

See Q. matta for discussion.

References ✧ PE16/141

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mata- “to eat” ✧ PE16/141 (mat-)

ᴱQ. matl n. “food” (Category: Food)

See Q. matta for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/59 ✧ “food”

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ᴱ√MATA > matl [matlǝ] > [matl] > [matḷ] > [matḷ] ✧ QL/59