Q. véla adj. “*alike, having a likeness or similarity” (Category: Like, Similar)
An untranslated word in the phrase mahtanë yúyo má véla associated with the Ambidexters Sentence from the late 1960s (VT49/6). Patrick Wynne suggested this phrase means “*used both hands alike”, and that véla means “*alike, having a likeness or similarity” as an adjective form of vē̆ “as, like” (VT49/10).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had several similar forms: ᴱQ. víka “like” under the early root ᴱ√VĪ [VI'I] “as” (QL/101), as well as more emphatic ᴱQ. avíka “very much alike” and ᴱQ. inqavíka “exactly alike, identical” (QL/30, 42).
Reference ✧ VT49/10 ✧ “*alike, having a likeness or similarity”
Elements
| ve¹ | “as, like, similar, after the manner [of]” | ✧ VT49/10 (vē̆) |
Element In
Cognates
ᴱQ. avíka adj. “very much alike” (Category: Like, Similar)
Reference ✧ QL/30 ✧ avīka “very much alike”
Elements
| a-² | “*intensive prefix” |
| víka | “like” |
ᴱQ. víka adj. “like” (Category: Like, Similar)
References ✧ QL/42, 101
Glosses
Variations
Element In
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√VĪ > vīka | [βīkē] > [βīke] > [vīke] | ✧ QL/101 |