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- Quenya translates as simply "language" or, in contrast to other tongues that the Elves met later in their long history, "elf-language".
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Jan 28, 2024 · The word Quenya is in origin an adjective meaning “belonging to the Quendi”, but despite this unspecific derivation is only ever used as a name of the language. It descends from an older form kwendjā , with the d surviving only in the Vanyarin dialect, where the name is still Quendya .
As for the gloss, cf. Lómion masc. name "Child of Twilight [dusk]", the Quenya name Aredhel secretly gave to Maeglin _(SA). Otherwise lómë is usually defined as "night" (Letters:308, LR:41, SD:302 cf.414-15, SA:dú)_; the _Etymologies defines lómë as "Night [as phenomenon], night-time, shades of night, Dark" (DO3/DŌ, LUM, DOMO, VT45:28 ...
Quenya ( pronounced [ˈkʷwɛɲja]) [T 1] is a constructed language, one of those devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for the Elves in his Middle-earth fiction. Tolkien began devising the language around 1910, and restructured its grammar several times until it reached its final state.
- c. 1910–1973
- The fictional world of Middle-earth
Quenya is also called parmalambë "the book-tongue" and tarquesta "high-speech" (LR:172; cf. "the High Speech of the Noldor" in UT:44). As Quenya originated in Valinor, it could also be termed Valinorean (LotR3/V ch. 8) or "the speech of the Elves of Valinor" (Silm. ch. 15).
quenya noun (original adj.) "speech" (PM:399); the language-name Quenya is said to mean properly "language, speech" (WJ:393); cf. the phrase coirëa quenya "living speech" (PM:399).However, Quenya (archaic Quendya, still so in Vanyarin) is also interpreted "Elvish" (Letters:176), sc. the adjective corresponding to Quendi (WJ:374), but it was no ...
Jan 20, 2024 · Qenya (pronounced [KWEN-ya]) [1] was the original name of the High-Elven tongue which gradually would change into Quenya of the Lord of the Rings . In the earliest versions of the legendarium, Qenya (as every Elvish language) belonged to the Oromean phylum, derived from the language Orome taught the Quendi.
Quenya Names. Aicanáro m. “Fell Fire; Sharp Flame” ⇐ aica + nár. Ailinel f. ⇐ ailin + -iel. Ainulindalë pn. “Music of the Ainur” ⇐ Ainu + lindalë. Airefëa pn. “Holy Spirit” ⇐ airë¹ + fëa. Airë Tári pn.
