Eldamo : Early Quenya : vestani

ᴱQ. vestani n. “*bride” (Category: Bride)

⚠️ᴱQ. vestani, n. “*bride” (Category: Bride): Q. indis “[ᴹQ.] bride, [ᴺQ.] *fiancée; ⚠️[Q.] wife”

An unglossed word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants vestani and vestaqin (QL/101), combinations of ᴱQ. vesta “marriage” with feminine suffixes ᴱQ. -ni or ᴱQ. qin “woman”, so perhaps “*marriage woman” = “*bride”.

References ✧ QL/101

Variations

vestani ✧ QL/101
vestaqin ✧ QL/101

Elements

vesta	“state of marriage”	✧ QL/101
#-ni	“feminine suffix”	✧ QL/101 (#-ni)

Cognates

G. bedhres “sister in law, *kinswoman by marriage”