ᴺQ. !nelquain num. card. “thirty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
Elements
| Q. neldë | “three” |
| Q. quëan | “ten” |
ᴱQ. nel(de)kainen num. card. “thirty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. nel(de)kainen “thirty” as a combination of ᴱQ. nelde “three” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten” (PE14/49, 83).
Neo-Quenya: Late in Tolkien’s life, Tolkien changed the Quenya word for “ten” to quëan or quain, which has been the basis for various neologisms for “thirty”: ᴺQ. nelequëan, ᴺQ. nelequain, or ᴺQ. nelquain. I prefer to use ᴺQ. nelquain for purposes of Neo-Quenya.
References ✧ PE14/49, 82
Glosses
Elements
| nelde | “three; four” | ✧ PE14/49 |
| kainen | “ten” | ✧ PE14/49 |
ᴺQ. !nelequain num. card. “thirty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
Elements
| Q. neldë | “three” |
| Q. quëan | “ten” |
ᴺQ. !nelequëan num. card. “thirty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
Elements
| Q. neldë | “three” |
| Q. quëan | “ten” |