Eldamo : Early Quenya : kekteket

ᴱQ. kekteket (kektekett-) n. “clucking” (Category: Chicken (generic))

⚠️ᴱQ. cectecet (cectecett-), n. “clucking” (Category: Chicken (generic)): ᴺQ. ^cehtecet “clucking”

The word ᴱQ. kekteket “clucking” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√KEKE “cluck” (QL/46). In the margin Tolkien wrote cectecet, an early example of him using c in spelling for the sound [k].

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d adapt this word as ᴺQ. cehtecet “clucking”, since in later Quenya phonetics kt became ht (IPA [xt]).

References ✧ QL/46

Glosses

“clucking” ✧ QL/46

Variations

kekteket ✧ QL/46
cectecet ✧ QL/46

Inflections

kektekett-

stem

✧ QL/46

Derivations

< ᴱ√KEKE² “cluck” ✧ QL/46

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√KEKE > kekteket

[kektekekt] > [kekteket]

✧ QL/46