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Q. ciryaquen n. “shipman, sailor” (Category: Sailor)

Q. ciryaquen, n. “shipman, sailor” (Category: Sailor)

A word for a “shipman, sailor” in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, a combination of cirya “ship” with quén “person” (WJ/372). Tolkien specified that “these compounds being old were accented as unitary words and the main stress came on the syllable preceding -quen” (WJ/407), so stressed cirYAquen and (plural) cirYAqueni.

Conceptual Development: The Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s had ᴹQ. veaner “sailor” as a combination of ᴹQ. vea “sea” and ᴹQ. nér “man”, along with an archaic variant ᴹQ. vainar (PE21/17), the latter with some phonetic modifications particular to this document and not seen in Tolkien’s later writings.

References ✧ WJ/372, 407

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

kirya:queni plural ✧ WJ/407

Elements

cirya¹ “(sharp-prowed) ship; swift gliding”
quén “person, individual, man or woman; one, somebody” ✧ WJ/372 (-quen); WJ/407 (-quen)

ᴹQ. †vainar n. “sailor” (Category: Sailor)

See Q. ciryaquen for discussion.

References ✧ PE21/17, 31, 33, 36

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

vainar nominative ✧ PE21/36
vainallin nominative plural ✧ PE21/36
vainarin nominative plural ✧ PE21/36

Derivations


ᴹQ. veaner² (veanér-) n. “sailor” (Category: Sailor)

See Q. ciryaquen for discussion.

References ✧ PE21/17, 31, 33, 36

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

veanello ablative; assimilated   ✧ PE21/36
veanerullo ablative   ✧ PE21/36
veanéra accusative; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
[vea]nĕrunta allative   ✧ PE21/36
veanerta allative; assimilated   ✧ PE21/36
veanéren dative; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veanéro genitive; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veanermen instrumental   ✧ PE21/36
veanéranen instrumental; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veaneresse locative   ✧ PE21/36
veanerse locative; assimilated   ✧ PE21/36
veaner nominative “sailor” ✧ PE21/36
veanérunt nominative dual; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veanellin nominative plural   ✧ PE21/36
veanérin nominative plural; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veanérulin nominative plural; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/36
veanēri plural; prosodic-lengthening   ✧ PE21/31
veanerwa possessive   ✧ PE21/36
veanerdon similative   ✧ PE21/36
veanerundon similative   ✧ PE21/36

Elements

vea² “sea” ✧ PE21/17
nér “man, adult male” ✧ PE21/17 (nēr)