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Q. maitë (maiti-) adj. “handy, skillful; having a hand, handed; shapely” (Category: Hand (other))

Q. maitë (maiti-), adj. “handy, skillful, [ᴹQ.] skilled; [Q.] shapely, well-shaped; (as suffix) having a hand, handed” (Category: Hand (other))
ᴱQ. maitë¹ “thousand”
ᴱQ. ‽terenwa “shapely, well tuned”

An adjective for “handy, skilful” in notes on Eldarin Hands, Fingers and Numerals from the late 1960s (VT47/6). ᴹQ. maite had a similar gloss “handy, skilled” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√MAƷ “hand” (Ety/MAƷ). Tolkien gave its primitive form as ✶magiti in the 1960s (VT41/10) and as ᴹ✶maʒiti in the 1930s (Ety/MAƷ). Either way, it seems to be a combination of Q. “hand” and the adjective suffix -itë, with a stem form of maiti-.

As a suffix in compounds, it has the sense “handed” as in Q. formaitë “righthanded” (Ety/PHOR) and Q. morimaitë “black-handed” (PE17/110). As prefix, however, it seems to have meant “shapely, well shaped” as in Maitimo “Well-shaped One” (PM/353). It seems likely the same would be true if the adjective were applied to an object, such as maitë macil “a well-shaped [skillfully made] sword”, as opposed to maitë ohtar “a handy/skillful warrior”.

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, ᴱQ. maqa or maqalea meant “handy, skilled (with hands)” while ᴱQ. mavoite (mavoisi-) meant “having hands”, both under the early root ᴱ√MAHA (QL/57). The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s Tolkien had ᴱQ. maite “handed” as an element in ᴱQ. erumaite “one handed” (PE14/51, 84; PE16/140). ᴹQ. maite appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s as noted above, but with the abnormal plural form maisi (Ety/MAƷ) that seems to be remnant of Early Qenya phonetic developments from the 1910s.

References ✧ PE17/110, 162; UTI/Parmaitë; VT41/10; VT47/6

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Maiti- stem “shapely” ✧ VT41/10

Elements

“hand” ✧ PE17/161 (); VT47/6
-itë “adjectival ending; capable of doing, generally (and naturally) doing”

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magiti- > Maiti- [magiti] > [magite] > [maɣite] > [maite] ✧ VT41/10

ᴹQ. maite (maisi-) adj. “handy, skilled” (Category: Light, Nimble)

See Q. maitë for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/MAƷ

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maisi plural ✧ Ety/MAƷ

Elements

má¹ “hand”
-ite “(verbal) adjective ending”

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ᴹ✶maʒiti > maite [maɣiti] > [maɣite] > [maite] ✧ Ety/MAƷ

ᴱQ. #maite³ adj. “handed” (Category: Hand (other))

See Q. maitë for discussion.

Reference ✧ PE14/84 ✧ #maite “handed”

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ᴱQ. maqa adj. “handy, skilled (with hands)” (Category: Hand (other))

See Q. maitë for discussion.

References ✧ QL/57, 90

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ᴱ√MAHA > maqa [maxkʷā] > [maxkʷa] > [makkʷa] > [makʷkʷa] > [makʷa] ✧ QL/57

ᴱQ. maqalea adj. “handy, skilled (with hands)” (Category: Hand (other))

See Q. maitë for discussion.

Reference ✧ QL/57 ✧ “handy, skilled (with hands)”

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maqale “legerdemain, sleight” ✧ QL/57
#-a “adjectival suffix” ✧ QL/57 (#-a)

ᴱQ. mavoite (mavoisi-) adj. “having hands” (Category: Hand (other))

See Q. maitë for discussion.

References ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed; QL/57

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mavoisi- stem ✧ QL/57

Elements

“hand” ✧ LT2A/Ermabwed (); QL/57 ()
#-voite “adjective suffix” ✧ QL/57 (#-voite)

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