Eldamo : Early Quenya : tessa

ᴱQ. tessa n. “maid, maiden” (Category: Girl)

⚠️ᴱQ. tessa, n. “maid, maiden” (Category: Girl)

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “a maid, maiden” but with no explicit root given (QL/90). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “maid”.

References ✧ PME/91; QL/91

Glosses

“a maid, maiden” ✧ QL/91
“maid” ✧ PME/91

Element In

ᴱQ. tessara “maiden, maidenly” ✧ QL/91
ᴱQ. tessare “little maid” ✧ QL/91

Cognates

G. tess(il) “little flower; †maiden”