Q. quessë n. “feather” (Category: Feather)
The Quenya word for “feather” and the name of tengwa #4 [z] (LotR/1122).
Conceptual Development: Some similar words appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QASA: ᴱQ. qasil “arrow-feather, arrow” and ᴱQ. qasilla “tuft, nodding spray, tassel, plume” (QL/76); quasil was only glossed “arrow” in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/76). ᴹQ. qesse “feather” first appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√KWES (Ety/KWES), already the name of tengwa #4 (EtyAC/KWES). It was also the name of this tengwa in notes on the Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s and 1940s (PE22/22, 51, 61), and remained so into the published version of The Lord of the Rings.
References ✧ LotR/1122; PE17/123, 168; WJ/417
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ᴹQ. qesse n. “feather” (Category: Feather)
References ✧ Ety/KWES; EtyAC/KWES; PE22/22, 51, 61
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| ᴹ✶kwessē > qesse | [kwessē] > [kwesse] | ✧ Ety/KWES |