Eldamo : Early Quenya : tuksa kainen

ᴱQ. tuksa kainen num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

⚠️ᴱQ. tuxa cainen, num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

A variant word for “thousand” from the Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s as a combination of ᴱQ. tuksa “hundred” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten”, following the pattern of words like ᴱQ. kan(ta)kainen “forty” (PE14/50, 83). Properly it is tuksa kainen, shortened to either tuksakainen or tuksainen. Compare ᴱQ. húme “thousand”.

References ✧ PE14/50, 83

Glosses

“1000” ✧ PE14/50 (tuksakainen); PE14/50 (tuksainen); PE14/83; PE14/83 (tuksainen)

Variations

tuksa kainen ✧ PE14/83
tuksakainen ✧ PE14/50
tuksainen ✧ PE14/50; PE14/83

Elements

tuksa	“gross, 144; hundred”	✧ PE14/49
kainen	“ten”	✧ PE14/49

Element In

ᴱQ. tuksainenya “thousandth” ✧ PE14/51

Derivations

< ᴱ✶tuksk- “*hundred” ✧ PE14/83
- < ᴱ√TUKSA “*hundred”