Eldamo : Early Primitive Elvish : QIQI

ᴱ√QIQI root. “*droop”

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. qinqa “drooping, languid” and ᴱQ. qiqi- “hang, droop” (QL/77); Tolkien compared it to ᴱ√PIPI “hang, trail”. For the sense “hang” I think it is better to use the later root ᴹ√(G)LINGI, but for purposes of Neo-Eldarin I think it is worth positing a root ᴺ√KWIK(W) “languid” to allow preservation of the Early Qenya words related to that sense.

Reference ✧ QL/77

QIQI cp. PIPI ✧ QL/77

Derivatives

> ᴱQ. qinqa “drooping, languid” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qinqele “languor” ✧ QL/77
  - ⇒ ᴱQ. qinqelea “languorous” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qinqenna “Solomon’s-seal” ✧ QL/77
> ᴱQ. qiqi- “to hang, droop” ✧ QL/77
- ⇒ ᴱQ. qiqilla “Lily of the Valley” ✧ QL/77