ᴹQ. miue (miuy-) n. “cat” (Category: Cat)
A word for “cat” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, from primitive {mauı̯ǝ >>} miuı̯ǝ (PE21/12-13), and so probably related to the root ᴹ√MIW “whine” from The Etymologies which had the derivative ᴹQ. miule “whining, mewing” (Ety/MIW). The stem form of this “cat” word is the rather unusual miuy-.
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s, the word for “cat” was ᴱQ. meoi (QL/61; PME/61), as in ᴱQ. Vardo Meoita “Prince of Cats” (LT2/15), a sobriquet of ᴱQ. Tevildo. In Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s, Tolkien instead gave ᴱQ. yaule “cat”, probably an onomatopoeic word as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE16/132).
Neo-Quenya: In Parma Penyanë Quettaron (PPQ) from the early 2000s, Terry Dock suggested the neuter, feminine and masculine neologisms for “cat”: ᴺQ. miura, ᴺQ. miurë, and ᴺQ. miuro. However, this predates the publication of ᴹQ. miue “cat”, and I would recommend just sticking with the attested form.
References ✧ PE21/12-13
Changes
Inflections
[miu]yullo | ablative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
†miue | accusative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
miuya | accusative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
[miu]yunta | allative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
†miuir | dative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
miuyen | dative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
miuyo | genitive | ✧ PE21/13 | |
[miu]yesse | locative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
miue | nominative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
[miu]yundon | similative | ✧ PE21/13 | |
mauı̯ǝ | stem | “cat” | ✧ PE21/12 |
miuı̯ǝ | stem | “cat” | ✧ PE21/12 |
Derivations
ᴱQ. meoi n. “cat” (Category: Cat)
References ✧ LT2A/Tevildo; LT2I/Meoita; PME/61; QL/61
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
Meoita | genitive; a-genitive | “of cats” | ✧ LT2A/Tevildo |
Meoita | genitive; a-genitive | ✧ LT2I/Meoita; QL/61 |
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