Eldamo : Middle Quenya : pilen

ᴹQ. pilen n. “feather” (Category: Feather)

⚠️ᴹQ. pilen, n. “feather” (Category: Feather): Q. quessë “feather”; ᴹQ. pilin “arrow; ⚠️[ᴱQ.] feather”

A word for “feather” in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s (PE21/33-34), probably a later iteration of ᴱQ. pilin “feather” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/74). The word ᴹQ. pilin was more frequently glossed “arrow”.

References ✧ PE21/33-34

Glosses

“feather” ✧ PE21/33; PE21/34

Variations

pilen ✧ PE21/33; PE21/34

Inflections

†pilello	ablative; assimilated	✧ PE21/34
pilenullo	ablative	✧ PE21/34
†pilillo	ablative; assimilated	✧ PE21/34
pilena	accusative	✧ PE21/34
†pilenta	allative; assimilated	✧ PE21/34
pilinta	allative; assimilated	✧ PE21/34
pilenar	dative	✧ PE21/34
pilenen	dative	✧ PE21/34
pileno	genitive	✧ PE21/34
pilenwen	instrumental	✧ PE21/34
pilenúment	instrumental dual; prosodic-lengthening	✧ PE21/34
pilinwet	instrumental dual	✧ PE21/34
pilenesse	locative	✧ PE21/34
pilen	nominative	✧ PE21/34
pilenunt	nominative dual	✧ PE21/34
pilinin	nominative plural	✧ PE21/34
pilenwa	possessive	✧ PE21/34
pilendon	similative	✧ PE21/34

Derivations

< ᴹ√PILIN “*arrow”