ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] nyéni n. “(she) goat” (Category: Goat)
Elements
| nyé | “bleat, cry of goat or sheep” |
ᴱQ. nyéni n. “she-goat” (Category: Goat)
The word ᴱQ. nyēni “she-goat” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s as a feminized form of ᴱQ. nyé “bleat” (QL/68). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/68).
Neo-Quenya: I’d retain ᴺQ. nyéni for “(she) goat” for purposes of Neo-Quenya; see ᴺQ. nyé “bleat” for the rationale, and ᴺQ. naico “goat” for possible alternatives.
References ✧ LT1A/Nienna; PME/68; QL/68
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| ᴱ√NYE(NE) > nyēni | [nʲēnī] > [nʲēni] | ✧ QL/68 |