Eldamo : Quenya : -ien¹

Q. -ien¹ suf. “feminine ending; feminine patronymic, -daughter” (Category: Female)

Q. -ien¹, suf. “feminine ending; ⚠️feminine patronymic, -daughter” (Category: Female)

A feminine suffix common in Quenya names, in one place given as a feminine patronymic (PE17/170), though there are no attested Quenya names in which it was used that way.

Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹQ. ien was given as a (suffixal?) variant of ᴹQ. yen(de) “daughter” (Ety/YŌ; EtyAC/YŌ), but again there are no actual names from this period using the suffix in that way.

References ✧ PE17/170

Glosses

“feminine patronymic” ✧ PE17/170

Variations

-ien ✧ PE17/170
-en ✧ PE17/170

-ien¹ “feminine ending; feminine patronymic, -daughter” vs. -iel “-daughter; feminine suffix”

Element In

Q. Arien “Maiden of the Sun”
Q. Silmarien
Q. Telperien
Q. Yávien

Cognates

S. -ien “feminine ending” ✧ PE17/170

ᴹQ. -ien¹ suf. “daughter” (Category: Daughter)

See Q. -ien¹ for discussion.

Reference ✧ EtyAC/YŌ ✧ ien “daughter”

Element In

ᴹQ. Árien “Sun-maiden”
ᴹQ. Palúrien “Lady of the Wide Earth, Bosom of the Earth”

Derivations

< ᴹ√YEN² “daughter” ✧ Ety/YŌ (yēn)

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√yēn > ien

[-jen] > [-ien]

✧ EtyAC/YŌ