Q. ciryaquen n. “shipman, sailor” (Category: Sailor)
A word for a “shipman, sailor” in the Quendi and Eldar essay of 1959-60, a combination of cirya “ship” with quén “person” (WJ/372). Tolkien specified that “these compounds being old were accented as unitary words and the main stress came on the syllable preceding -quen” (WJ/407), so stressed cirYAquen and (plural) cirYAqueni.
Conceptual Development: The Declension of Nouns of the early 1930s had ᴹQ. veaner “sailor” as a combination of ᴹQ. vea “sea” and ᴹQ. nér “man”, along with an archaic variant ᴹQ. vainar (PE21/17), the latter with some phonetic modifications particular to this document and not seen in Tolkien’s later writings.
References ✧ WJ/372, 407
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| kirya:queni | plural | ✧ WJ/407 |
Elements
| cirya¹ | “(sharp-prowed) ship; swift gliding” | |
| quén | “person, individual, man or woman; one, somebody” | ✧ WJ/372 (-quen); WJ/407 (-quen) |
ᴹQ. †vainar n. “sailor” (Category: Sailor)
References ✧ PE21/17, 31, 33, 36
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| vainar | nominative | ✧ PE21/36 |
| †vainallin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/36 |
| vainarin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/36 |
Derivations
ᴹQ. veaner² (veanér-) n. “sailor” (Category: Sailor)
References ✧ PE21/17, 31, 33, 36
Glosses
Variations
Inflections
| †veanello | ablative; assimilated | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanerullo | ablative | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanéra | accusative; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| [vea]nĕrunta | allative | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanerta | allative; assimilated | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanéren | dative; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanéro | genitive; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanermen | instrumental | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanéranen | instrumental; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veaneresse | locative | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanerse | locative; assimilated | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veaner | nominative | “sailor” | ✧ PE21/36 |
| veanérunt | nominative dual; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanellin | nominative plural | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanérin | nominative plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| †veanérulin | nominative plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanēri | plural; prosodic-lengthening | ✧ PE21/31 | |
| veanerwa | possessive | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanerdon | similative | ✧ PE21/36 | |
| veanerundon | similative | ✧ PE21/36 |
Elements
| vea² | “sea” | ✧ PE21/17 |
| nér | “man, adult male (of any kindred: elf, human or dwarf)” | ✧ PE21/17 (nēr) |