✶kwenyā adj. “Elvish”

✶kwenyā adj. “Elvish”

References ✧ PE17/137-138; PE19/93; WJ/360, 393

Glosses

• “belonging to the people as a whole” ✧ WJ/360 (kwendjā)

Variations

• kwenyā ✧ PE17/137
• kwe-nyā ✧ PE17/137
• **kwendya ✧ PE19/93; PE17/137 (Kwendya)
• kwend(i)ja ✧ PE17/138
• kwenedyā ✧ PE19/93
• kwendjā ✧ WJ/360; WJ/393

Related

• **kwendya incorrectly assumed to be derived from Q. Quendi “Elves” ✧ PE19/93

Changes

• Kwendya >> kwenyā ✧ PE17/137

Inflections

Kwendya

plural

“Language of the Elves”

✧ PE17/138

Elements

kwende

“speaker, elf”

✧ WJ/393

Derivations

• < √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ WJ/360 (KWENE)
  • < √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392
• < √KWENED “spoken, articulate” ✧ PE19/93
  • < √KWEN “speak with rational words” ✧ PE19/93
    • < KWEN, derived stem ✧ PE19/93
    • < √KWE “vocal speech” ✧ WJ/392

Derivatives

• > Q. Quenderin “Quendian, of the Quendi, belonging to the Elves as a whole” ✧ PE19/93
• > Q. Quenya “Elvish, High-elven, Elf-latin, †speech” ✧ PE17/137; PE17/138; WJ/361; WJ/393
  • ⇒ 4 compounds
• > Van. Quendya “Quendian language” ✧ WJ/361

ᴹ✶kwendya adj.

Reference ✧ PE19/46

Derivatives

• > ᴹQ. Qenya “Elvish (Tongue), Elfspeech, Elf-latin; belonging to the Qendi, Quendian” ✧ PE19/46; PE19/46
  • ⇒ ᴹQ. Ingweqenya ✧ LR/172; LR/193