Eldamo : Early Quenya : -tenda

ᴱQ. -tenda suf. “having fingers” (Category: Finger)

⚠️ᴱQ. -tenda, suf. “having fingers” (Category: Finger): Q. lepta “fingered; ⚠️thumb, [ᴱQ.] finger”

A suffix meaning “having fingers” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” (QL/91), appearing as the final of element in ᴱQ. tapatenda “taper fingered (light fingered)” whose initial element was ᴱ√TAPA “taper” (QL/89). In later writings, such adjectives were usually formed with Q. lepta, as in [ᴹQ.] rakkalepta “*claw-fingered” (SD/68).

References ✧ QL/89, 91

Glosses

“having fingers” ✧ QL/91

Element In

ᴱQ. tapatenda “taper fingered, light fingered, long fingered” ✧ QL/89

Derivations

< ᴱ√TENE “touch, feel” ✧ QL/91

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√TENE > -tenda

[-tendā] > [-tenda]

✧ QL/91