Eldamo : Early Quenya : sunqe

ᴱQ. sunqe n. “going-down, descent, down-fall; abyss, depth” (Category: to Sink)

⚠️ᴱQ. sunquë, n. “going-down, descent, down-fall; abyss, depth” (Category: to Sink): Q. andú- “going down, setting (of sun), west”

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s meaning “going-down, descent, down-fall” as well as “abyss, depth”, derived from the early root ᴱ√SUQU (QL/87). In the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa it was only glossed “abyss” (PME/87).

References ✧ PME/87; QL/87

Glosses

“abyss” ✧ PME/87
“going-down, descent, down-fall; abyss, depth” ✧ QL/87

Variations

sunqe ✧ PME/87; QL/87

Inflections

sunqe-

stem

✧ QL/87

Element In

ᴱQ. sunqele “sinking, falling, setting of heavenly bodies” ✧ QL/87

Derivations

< ᴱ√SUQU “*descend” ✧ QL/87

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√SUQU > sunqe

[suŋkʷē] > [suŋkʷe]

✧ QL/87