Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : TṆQṆ

ᴱ√TṆQṆ root. “*hear”

⚠️ᴱ√TṆQṆ root. “*hear”: √LAS² “listen”

A root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “hear”, with derivatives like ᴱQ. tunqa “able to hear”, and ᴱQ. tunq- “to hear” (QL/93), the latter verb also appearing in the Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s with the same derivation (PE14/58). In Tolkien’s later writings, ears and hearing words were generally connected to √(S)LAS.

References ✧ QL/93, 98

(U)ṆQ(U)Ṇ² cp. tṇqṇ ✧ QL/98

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶tṇq- “to hear”
- > ᴱQ. tunq- “to hear” ✧ PE14/58; PE14/58
  - ⇒ [see above]
> ᴱQ. tunq- “to hear” ✧ QL/93; QL/93
- ⇒ ᴱQ. tunqele “hearing” ✧ QL/93
> ᴱQ. tunqa “able to hear” ✧ QL/93