Eldamo : Middle Primitive Elvish : WEN(ED)

ᴹ√WEN(ED) root. “maiden, daughter, [orig.] female of any kind or age”

See √WEN(ED) for discussion.

References ✧ Ety/BAN, GWEN, WEN; PE23/87

Glosses

“female of any kind or age, [in Quenya] daughter, maiden” ✧ PE23/87 (WEN)
“maiden” ✧ Ety/WEN (WEN)

Variations

WEN(ED) ✧ Ety/GWEN
WEN ✧ Ety/BAN; Ety/WEN; PE23/87
WENED ✧ Ety/WEN

GWEN is distinct from WEN(ED) ✧ Ety/GWEN
GWEN is possibly an alternate stem for WEN “maiden” ✧ Ety/WEN

Derivatives

> ᴹ✶wen- “girl” ✧ Ety/WEN
- > Ilk. gwen “girl” ✧ Ety/WEN
- > ᴹQ. véne “girl” ✧ Ety/WEN
  - ⇒ ᴹQ. venesse “virginity” ✧ Ety/WEN
- ⇒ N. Eledhwen “Elf-maid” ✧ Ety/WEN
- ⇒ N. Morwen ✧ Ety/WEN
> ᴹQ. vende “maiden, maid” ✧ Ety/GWEN; Ety/WEN
> ᴹQ. wenda “female” ✧ PE23/87
> N. gwenn “maiden” ✧ Ety/WEN
- ⇒ 4 compounds
> ON. #wende “maiden” ✧ Ety/BAN
- ⇒ ON. Bana-wende ✧ Ety/BAN
  - > N. Banwen “Vana” ✧ Ety/BAN

ᴱ√GWENE¹ root. “*maiden; woman”

See √WEN(ED) for discussion.

References ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Urwen; PE13/118; QL/103

Variations

GWENE ✧ LT1A/Urwen; QL/103 (‽GWENE)
gu̯eđe ✧ GL/45
gw̯ene ✧ GL/45
u̯enĭ- ✧ PE13/118
WENE ✧ QL/103

gu̯eđe beside ŋgu̯eđe ✧ GL/45

Changes

gw̯ene >> gu̯eđe ✧ GL/45
WENE >> ‽GWENE ✧ QL/103

Derivatives

> ᴱ✶gu̯eđeþlī “maiden, little girl” ✧ GL/45
- > G. gwethli “maiden, little girl” ✧ GL/45
> ᴱ✶u̯einā́ ✧ PE13/118
- > G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ PE13/118
  - ⇒ 9 compounds
> ᴱ✶u̯enı̯ā̆́- ✧ PE13/118
- > ᴱQ. venya “womanl[y]” ✧ PE13/118
> ᴱ✶u̯eniı̯ássa “*female” ✧ PE13/118
- > G. gwineth “female” ✧ PE13/118
> ᴱQ. wen(di) “maid, girl, maiden” ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Urwen; LT1A/Urwen; QL/103; QL/103; QL/103; QL/103
- ⇒ 9 compounds
> G. Gwedheling ✧ GL/45; LT1A/Wendelin
> G. gwenedh “womanly?” ✧ PE13/118
> G. gwenithli “maidenhood” ✧ GL/45
> G. gwennin “girl” ✧ GL/45
- ⇒ G. gwenniniol “maiden(ly), girlish” ✧ GL/45
- ⇒ G. Gwenninûr
> G. gwin “woman, female” ✧ PE13/118
- ⇒ 9 compounds

ᴱ√QIMI root. “*woman”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s having to do with femininity with derivatives like ᴱQ. qin “woman, female” and ᴱQ. qinde “womanliness, femininity”, as well as various words for “nun” (QL/76). It seems to be related to the Gnomish root ᴱ√GIWI via G(I)WIMI > GWIM > KWIM. In the Gnomish Lexicon beneath various G. gwin- “woman” words Tolkien said: “cp. giwi-; Q qin rare correspondence of q > gw, because it is here from g’w-, not gu̯-” (GL/45). In later writings this root was likely supplanted by √WEN(ED) “woman, maiden, girl”.

Reference ✧ QL/77

QIMI “*woman” may be an extension (via G(I)WIMI > GWIM > KWIM) of GIWI “*germinate, impregnate”

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. qin¹ “woman, female” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ 6 compounds
> ᴱQ. qinde “womanliness, femininity; (concr.) women as a whole” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qindelis “nun” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qindesta “convent” ✧ QL/77
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. qindestin “nun” ✧ QL/77