ᴺQ. [ᴱQ.] húmë num. card. “thousand; †great number” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
Element In
ᴱQ. húme num. card. “thousand; †great number” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had several different words for “thousand”. The manuscript version had ᴱQ. {súme >> húme >> ellume >>} húme “thousand”, originally meaning “a great number” (PE14/50 and note #56). The typescript version had ᴱQ. maite (maisi-) “thousand” (PE14/83).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I use ᴺQ. húmë “thousand” since Q. maitë means “handy; handed” in Tolkien’s later writings. Some Neo-Quenya writers prefer ᴺQ. mencë “thousand” as a hypothetical cognate to S. meneg.
References ✧ PE14/50
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| húmi | plural | ✧ PE14/50 |
Element In
ᴱQ. maite¹ (maisi-) num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
References ✧ PE14/83
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| maisi- | stem | “1000” | ✧ PE14/83 |
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ᴺQ. !mencë num. card. “thousand” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
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