ᴹQ. nengwea adj. “nasal” (Category: Nose)
A word for “nasal” in The Etymologies from the 1930s, simply an adjectival form of ᴹQ. nengwe “nose” (Ety/NEÑ-WI). It also appeared in the version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa from the 1930s (TQ1) as a nominalized plural Nengwear “nasals”, labeling the nasal row of a chart of sounds (PE18/30).
References ✧ Ety/NEÑ-WI; PE18/30
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| Nengwear | plural | “nasals” | ✧ PE18/30 |
Elements
| nengwe | “nose” | ✧ Ety/NEÑ-WI |
| #-a | “adjectival suffix” |