Eldamo : Middle Quenya : yé²

ᴹQ. yé² n. “eye” (Category: Eye)

⚠️ᴹQ. yé², n. “eye” (Category: Eye): Q. #hen “eye”

The word ᴱQ. sé “eye, pupil” appeared in the Qenya Phonology of the 1910s derived from ᴱ✶þeχē (PE12/21), and ᴱQ. sē reappeared with the gloss “eye, eyeball” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√SEHE [ÞEHE] (QL/82). A similar word ᴹQ. yé “eye” appeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/40). Both were likely displaced by Q. hen “eye” < √KHEN.

References ✧ PE21/40

Glosses

“eye” ✧ PE21/40

Variations

yé ✧ PE21/40

Inflections

†yellon	ablative plural	✧ PE21/40; PE21/40
†yai	accusative plural	✧ PE21/40
†yentan	allative plural	✧ PE21/40
†yair	dative plural	✧ PE21/40
†yaion	genitive plural	✧ PE21/40
yainen	instrumental	✧ PE21/40
†yainen	instrumental plural	✧ PE21/40
†yeksen	locative plural; assimilated	✧ PE21/40
†yain	nominative plural	✧ PE21/40

ᴱQ. sé n. “eye, eyeball, pupil” (Category: Eye)

See ᴹQ. yé² for discussion.

References ✧ PE12/21; QL/40, 82

Glosses

“eye, eyeball” ✧ QL/82 (sē)
“eye, pupil” ✧ PE12/21

Variations

sé ✧ PE12/21
sē ✧ QL/40; QL/82

henwi is the commonly used dual of sē ✧ QL/40

Inflections

ser

plural

✧ QL/82

Cognates

G. thed “eye; bud”

Derivations

< ᴱ√ÞEHE “*see” ✧ QL/82 (SEHE)
< ᴱ✶þeχē “eye, pupil” ✧ PE12/21
- < ᴱ√ÞEHE “*see” ✧ PE12/21 (þeχe)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶þeχē > sé	[θex] > [sex] > [seɣ] > [sē]	✧ PE12/21
ᴱ√SEHE > sē	[θex] > [sex] > [seɣ] > [sē]	✧ QL/82