Eldamo : Early Quenya : qin¹

ᴱQ. qin¹ (qim-) n. “woman, female” (Category: Woman)

⚠️ᴱQ. quin¹ (quim-), n. “woman, female” (Category: Woman): Q. nís “woman (of any kindred: elf, human or dwarf)”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “woman, female” derived from the root ᴱ√QIMI (QL/77). In the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it appeared in its stem form qim- (PME/77). The word reappeared with the gloss “woman” in the English-Qenya Dictionary and Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE15/79; PE16/135), but seems to have been abandoned after that point.

References ✧ PE15/79; PE16/135; PME/77; QL/40, 77, 95

Glosses

“woman” ✧ PE15/79; PE16/135
“woman, female” ✧ QL/77

Variations

qin ✧ PE15/79; PE16/135; QL/77; QL/40 (#qin); QL/95 (#qin)
qime- ✧ QL/77

Changes

qime- >> qim- ✧ QL/77

Inflections

qima	accusative		✧ PE16/135
qimi	plural		✧ PE15/79
†qindi	plural		✧ PE15/79
qim-	stem	“woman”	✧ PME/77
qim-	stem		✧ QL/77

Element In

ᴱQ. hestaqin “sister” ✧ QL/40
ᴱQ. qimelle “little woman” ✧ QL/77
ᴱQ. qim(en)ea “womanly, feminine” ✧ QL/77 (qimea)
ᴱQ. qimenoite “feminine, female” ✧ PE16/135; QL/77
ᴱQ. qinya “female” ✧ PE16/135
ᴱQ. turqin “queen” ✧ QL/95 (turqin)

Cognates

G. gwin “woman, female”

Derivations

< ᴱ√QIMI “*woman” ✧ QL/77

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√QIMI > qin

[giwim] ? [gwin] > [gwin] > [kwin] > [kʷin]

✧ QL/77