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ᴱQ. enekkainen num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

⚠️ᴱQ. eneccainen, num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
ᴺQ. !enquain “sixty”

The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. enekkainen “sixty” as a combination of ᴱQ. enekse “six” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten” (PE14/49, 82).

Neo-Quenya: Late in Tolkien’s life, Tolkien changed the Quenya word for “ten” to quëan or quain, which has been the basis for various neologisms for “sixty”: ᴺQ. enenquëan, ᴺQ. enenquain, or ᴺQ. enquain. I prefer to use ᴺQ. enquain for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

References ✧ PE14/49, 82

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enqe “six” ✧ PE14/49 (enekse)
kainen “ten” ✧ PE14/49