Eldamo : Early Quenya : pekte

ᴱQ. pekte (peksi-) n. “plume, cox-comb” (Category: Feather)

⚠️ᴱQ. pectë (pexi-), n. “plume, cox-comb” (Category: Feather): ᴹQ. lúpë “plume”; ᴺQ. ^pehtë “cox-comb, *crest (of birds), ⚠️plume”

A noun appearing as ᴱQ. pekte “plume, comb (of cock)” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√PEKE (QL/73), also mentioned in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa in its stem-form pektĭ- “cox-comb” (PME/73).

Neo-Quenya: I would use the later word ᴹQ. lúpe for “plume”, but I think this Early Qenya word might be salvages as ᴺQ. pehtë “cox-comb” as a derivative of the Neo-Root ᴺ√PEK(W) “comb”, perhaps usable more generally for the crest of birds.

References ✧ PME/73; QL/73

Glosses

“plume, comb (of cock)” ✧ QL/73

Variations

pekte ✧ PME/73; QL/73

Changes

pekte >> pektĭ- “cox-comb” ✧ PME/73

Inflections

pekti-	stem		✧ QL/73
pektĭ-	stem	“cox-comb”	✧ PME/73

Element In

ᴱQ. Peksiporoku “Chantecler, (lit.) Cox-comb” ✧ PME/73; QL/73

Cognates

G. pectha “plume”

Derivations

< ᴱ√PEKE “*plume” ✧ QL/73

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√PEKE > pekte

[pekti] > [pekte]

✧ QL/73