Eldamo : Early Quenya : akairis

ᴱQ. akairis (akairist-) n. “bride, wife” (Category: Bride)

⚠️ᴱQ. acairis (acairist-), n. “bride, wife” (Category: Bride): Q. indis “[ᴹQ.] bride, [ᴺQ.] *fiancée; ⚠️[Q.] wife”; Q. veri “wife”

A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “bride” or “wife” based on the early root ᴱ√KAYA “lie, rest; dwell” (QL/30, 46), also mentioned in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “wife, bride” (PME/30). Tolkien said it was used as a name of ᴱQ. Erinti (QL/36; PME/30).

References ✧ PME/30; QL/30, 46

Glosses

“bride” ✧ QL/46
“bride, wife” ✧ QL/30
“wife, bride” ✧ PME/30

Variations

Akairis ✧ PME/30; QL/30; QL/46

Inflections

akairis-	stem	✧ QL/46
akairist-	stem	✧ QL/30; QL/46

Element In

ᴱQ. Akairis “Bride”
ᴱQ. akairisan “bride chamber, thalamus” ✧ QL/46

Derivations

< ᴱ√KAYA “lie, rest; dwell” ✧ QL/46

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√KAYA > akairis

[akajristǝ] > [akajrist] > [akajris] > [akairis]

✧ QL/46