Q. yunquesta fraction. “*one twelfth” (Category: Fraction, Division)
A word appearing as yunquesta [“1/12”] in notes on numbers from the late 1960s, a combination of yunquë “twelve” with the fractional suffix -sta.
Conceptual Development: The Early Qenya Grammar of the 1920s had ᴱQ. yunqetto “[one] 12th” with adjective form ᴱQ. yunqetya (PE14/51), combinations with the 1920s fractional suffix ᴱQ. -tto/-sto.
Reference ✧ VT48/11 ✧ “[1/12]”
Elements
| yunquë | “twelve” | |
| asta | “month; division, part (esp. one of other equal parts)” | ✧ VT48/11 |