ᴹQ. mat (matt-) n. “food, meal” (Category: a Meal)
A noun glossed “food, meal” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s with a stem form matt- (PE21/27), clearly based on ᴹ√MAT “eat”. Tolkien specified that as the suffix -mat, it was the basis of names for meals (PE21/32). The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s also had ᴱQ. mat (matt-) “meal, meal time” under the early root ᴱ√MATA “eat” (QL/59).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya I would use this word only for “meal”, and would instead use Q. matta for “food”.
References ✧ PE21/20, 27, 32
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| matta | accusative | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| mattin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| mattulin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/27 | |
| matt- | stem | “food” | ✧ PE21/20 |
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