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ᴺQ. !iniva adj. “womanly” (Category: Female)

ᴺQ. !iniva, adj. “womanly” (Category: Female)

A neologism for “womanly”, adjectival form of the root √INI “female”, coined by Paul Strack in 2018 specifically for Eldamo to replace ᴱQ. venya and ᴱQ. anaina of the same meaning.

Elements

NĪ/INI “*female”

ᴱQ. venya adj. “womanl[y]” (Category: Female)

A word for {“a woman” >>} “womanl[y]” in Gnomish Lexicon Slips of the 1910s appearing with variants venă and [ven]in, derived from primitive ᴱ✶u̯enı̯ā̆́- (PE13/118).

Conceptual Development: The word for “womanly” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s was ᴱQ. anaina, an adjectival form of ᴱQ. anai “woman” (QL/31).

References ✧ PE13/118

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ᴱQ. anaina adj. “womanly” (Category: Female)

See ᴱQ. venya for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/31 ✧ “womanly”

Elements

anai “woman” ✧ QL/31
#-ina “adjectival suffix” ✧ QL/31 (#-na)