Eldamo : Early Quenya : unqilla(r)

ᴱQ. unqilla(r) n. “handle of jar; pothook” (Category: Jug, Pitcher)

⚠️ᴱQ. unquilla(r), n. “handle of jar; pothook” (Category: Jug, Pitcher)

A word appearing in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as ᴱQ. unqilla “handle of jar; pothook” under the early root ᴱ√(U)ṆQ(U)Ṇ¹ that might be an independent root meaning “*hook”, or might be identical to ᴱ√(U)ṆQ(U)Ṇ² having to do with ears (QL/98). The contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa had ᴱQ. unqillar “jar handle” (PME/98).

References ✧ PME/98; QL/98

Glosses

“handle of jar; pothook” ✧ QL/98 (unqilla)
“jar handle” ✧ PME/98 (unqillar)

Variations

unqillar ✧ PME/98
unqilla ✧ QL/98

unqilla “handle of jar; pothook” ‽ to ᴱ√unqi ✧ QL/98

Derivations

< ᴱ√ṆQṆ¹ “*ear” ✧ QL/98 ((U)ṆQ(U)Ṇ¹)

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√(U)ṆQ(U)Ṇ¹ > unqilla

[ṇkʷillā] > [ṇkʷilla] > [uŋkʷilla]

✧ QL/98