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Q. minquesta fraction. “*one eleventh” (Category: Fraction, Division)

Q. minquesta, fraction. “*one eleventh” (Category: Fraction, Division)

A word appearing as minquesta [“1/11”] in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of minquë “eleven” with the fractional suffix -sta.

Conceptual Development: The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s had ᴱQ. minqetto or minqesto “[one] 11th” with adjective forms ᴱQ. minqetya or minqest(y)a (PE14/51, 84), combinations with the 1920s fractional suffix ᴱQ. -sto.

Reference ✧ VT48/11 ✧ “[1/11]”

Elements

minquë “eleven”
asta “month; division, part (esp. one of other equal parts)” ✧ VT48/11

ᴱQ. minqesto fraction. “one eleventh” (Category: Fraction, Division)

See Q. minquesta for discussion.

References ✧ PE14/51, 84

Glosses

Variations

Elements

minqe “eleven” ✧ PE14/49; PE14/82
*-sto “fraction suffix”

Element In


ᴱQ. minqest(y)a fraction. “one eleventh” (Category: Fraction, Division)

See Q. minquesta for discussion.

References ✧ PE14/51, 82, 84

Glosses

Variations

Changes

Elements

minqesto “one eleventh” ✧ PE14/51 (minqetto); PE14/84