ᴺQ. !quaihúmë num. card. “myriad, (lit.) ten thousand” (Category: Cardinal Number)
A neologism for “myriad” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his Neo-Quenya New Testament (NQNT), a combination of quai- “ten” and [ᴱQ.] húmë “thousand”, so more literally “ten thousand”. Ancient Greek “myrias” (genitive “myriados”) was used with both meanings in the New Testament, since “ten thousand” was the largest unit in the normal Greek numbering system and thus often used in the sense “an indefinitely large number”. I would treat this number as a translation of the Greek term and not part of the Quenya numbering system. For “10,000” in Quenya, I would instead use húmë quëan.
Elements
Q. quëan | “ten” |
húmë | “thousand; †great number” |