Q. #lingwë (lingwi-) n. “fish” (Category: Fish)
A word for “fish” appearing in its plural form lingwi “fish” in notes on The Lands and Beasts of Númenor from 1965 (NM/336) and appearing as ᴹQ. lingwe “fish” from primitive ᴹ✶liñwi under the root ᴹ√LIW in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LIW).
Conceptual Development: Tolkien had ᴱQ. ingwe “fish” under the early root ᴱ√IWI “fish” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/43), and this word was also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/43). The word {engwe >>} ingwe appeared unglossed in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s (PE16/145). ᴹQ. lingwe “fish” with initial l first emerged in The Etymologies of the 1930s, as noted above.
References ✧ NM/336
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| lingwi | plural | “fish” | ✧ NM/336 |
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ᴹQ. lingwe (lingwi-) n. “fish” (Category: Fish)
Reference ✧ Ety/LIW ✧ “fish”
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| ᴹ✶liñwi > lingwe | [liŋwi] > [liŋgwi] > [liŋge] | ✧ Ety/LIW |
ᴱQ. ingwe (ingwi-) n. “fish” (Category: Fish)
References ✧ PE16/145; PME/43; QL/43, 49, 91, 97
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| ingwĭ- | stem | ✧ QL/43 |
| #-in | suffix | ✧ QL/49 |
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| ᴱ√IWI > ingwe | [iŋwi] > [iŋwe] > [iŋgwe] | ✧ QL/43 |
ᴱQ. lingwe n. “snake, worm” (Category: Worm)
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “snake” with variants lingwe and lingo, an elaboration of ᴱQ. lin (ling-) of the same meaning (QL/54). Lingwe “snake” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/54), but in Early Qenya Word-lists of the 1920s it was glossed “worm” (PE16/145). In later writings, lingwë was “fish” (NM/336; Ety/LIW).
References ✧ PE16/145; PME/54; QL/54
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| lin² | “snake” | ✧ QL/54 |
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