ᴹQ. hanuvoite adj. “*masculine” (Category: Male)
An unglossed word in The Etymologies of the 1930s appearing next to female ᴹQ. inimeite (Ety/INI), likely meaning “*masculine” as an adjectival form of ᴹQ. hanu “male” (Ety/ƷAN).
Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s had the adjective ᴱQ. anuvoite “male, masculine” as an elaboration of ᴱQ. anu “a male” (QL/31).
In drafts for the first version of Quenya Personal Pronouns (QPP1) from the late 1940s, Tolkien had various adjectival forms based on the root ᴹ√NŌ/ONO “beget” (vs. ᴹ√RÉ “bear, produce”), including ᴹQ. noite “male, masculine”, noina, noian(a), or nónima (PE23/85, 87), but the relevant sections were rejected and elsewhere √NŌ is not specifically masculine.
Reference ✧ Ety/INI
Related
Elements
| hanu | “male, man (of Men or Elves), male animal” | ✧ Ety/INI (#hanu) |
| #-voite | “adjective suffix” | ✧ Ety/INI (#-voite) |
ᴱQ. anuvoite adj. “male, masculine” (Category: Male)
References ✧ QL/31
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| anuvoisi | plural | ✧ QL/31 |
Elements
| anu | “a male, man” | ✧ QL/31 |
| #-voite | “adjective suffix” | ✧ QL/31 (#-voite) |
Cognates