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Q. ránasta n. “lunar month” (Category: Month)

Q. ránasta, n. “lunar month” (Category: Month)

A word for a “lunar month” appearing in notes from around 1968 (VT48/11), a combination of Rána “Moon” and asta “month”.

Conceptual Development: The Qenya Lexicon had ᴱQ. lunde “month (lunar); properly simply = period” under the early root ᴱ√LUHU having to do with time (QL/56). The word lunde “month” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/56).

Reference ✧ VT48/11 ✧ “lunar month”

Elements

Rána “Moon, (lit.) Wayward”
asta “month; division, part (esp. one of other equal parts)” ✧ VT48/11

ᴱQ. lunde n. “(lunar) month; (lit.) period” (Category: Month)

See Q. ránasta for discussion.

References ✧ PME/56; QL/56

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Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√LUHU > lunde [luxndē] > [luxnde] > [luɣnde] > [lūnde] > [lunde] ✧ QL/56