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ᴱQ. mingwe n. “butter” (Category: Butter)

⚠️ᴱQ. mingwë, n. “butter” (Category: Butter)
ᴺQ. manya “butter”

The word for “butter” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was ᴱQ. manya derived from the early root ᴱ√MṆGṆ (QL/62) with the cognate G. mang “butter” from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/56). A similar form ᴱQ. mingwe “butter” appeared in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/141, 145), along with an unrelated form ᴱQ. úle “butter” that also appeared as an adjective in the phrase masta {mingwea >>} úlea “bread and butter” (PE16/141). In contemporaneous Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s, the Qenya word for “butter” was ᴱQ. telpe rather than having its usual meaning “silver” as in earlier and later writings (PE13/154).

Neo-Quenya: Of these forms, I prefer ᴺQ. manya for “butter” for purposes of Neo-Quenya since it has the clearest (Neo-Sindarin) cognate ᴺS. mang. I assume these words are derived from a Neo-Root ᴺ√MANGYA where ngy became ng in (Old) Sindarin but became ndy in Quenya and then developed into ny.

References ✧ PE16/141, 145

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ᴱQ. manya¹ n. “butter” (Category: Butter)

See ᴱQ. mingwe for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/62 ✧ manya “butter”

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Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√MṆGṆ > mnʒ+ʒ̑ǝ > mandy·ya > manya [mṇgðʲā] > [mṇgðʲa] > [mṇgja] > [maŋgja] > [maŋja] > [manja] ✧ QL/62