Eldamo : Neo-Quenya : ter-

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] ter- v. “to pierce” (Category: to Bore)

ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] ter-, v. “to pierce” [created by Helge Fauskanger, NQNT] (Category: to Bore): ᴱQ. elte- “to thrust in, drive [in]”; ᴱQ. pere- “to go through, pass, pierce; to endure, undergo, experience; to penetrate, get to understand; to last”

See ᴱQ. ter- for discussion.

Element In

ᴺQ. !térala “piercing”

Derivations

< ᴺ√TER “pierce”

ᴱQ. ter- v. “*to pierce” (Category: to Bore)

The verb ᴱQ. ter- appeared untranslated in a list of Qenya Verb Forms from the 1910s (PE14/28). Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson suggested it might be based on the early root ᴱ√teře “pierce” from this same period (PE14/28 note #4; PME/91).

Conceptual Development: The root √TER “pierce” appeared several times in Tolkien’s later writings (Ety/TER; PE17/33), so I would use ᴺQ. ter- “to pierce” for purposes of Neo-Quenya. For example, Helge Fauskanger had the active participle ᴺQ. térala “piercing” for his Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT). I would use the active participle form terila myself, but I think the basic verb ter- is perfectly viable.

Reference ✧ PE14/28

Derivations

< ᴱ√TEÐE “pierce, boring”