Eldamo : Quenya : engwa

Q. #engwa adj. “sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness)

Q. #engwa, adj. “sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness): ᴱQ. naico “*sickly”

An adjective for “sickly” in The Etymologies of the 1930s from the root ᴹ√GENG-WA “sick” (Ety/GENG-WĀ), used in its noun plural form ᴹQ. Engwar “The Sickly” as a name for Men (LR/245). Christopher Tolkien kept Engwar in the published version of The Silmarillion (S/103).

References ✧ S/103

Inflections

Engwar

plural

“sickly”

✧ S/103

Element In

Q. Engwar “Men, (lit.) The Sickly” ✧ S/103

Derivations

< ᴹ√GENGWA “sick”

ᴹQ. engwa¹ adj. “sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness)

See Q. #engwa for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ ✧ engwa “sickly”

Element In

ᴹQ. Engwar “The Sickly” ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ

Cognates

N. gem “sickly” ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ

Derivations

< ᴹ√GENGWA “sick” ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ (GENG-WĀ)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√GENG-WĀ > engwa

[geŋgwā] > [ɣeŋgwā] > [eŋgwā] > [eŋgwa]

✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ