Q. veri n. “wife” (Category: Wife)
The most common word for “wife” in Quenya (VT49/45).
Conceptual Development: This word dates all the way back to the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as ᴱQ. veri “wife” under the early root ᴱ√VEŘE [VEÐE] (QL/101), but there it was marked archaic (†). It also had a number of competing forms: archaic ᴱQ. †veruni and ᴱQ. †vesse alongside only one non-archaic form ᴱQ. vestin. One of these forms, ᴹQ. vesse, reappeared for “wife” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√BES “wed” (Ety/BES). Later veri “wife” was restored, but derived from a new root √BER for marriage words (VT49/45).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I prefer to retain the 1930s root ᴹ√BES for marriage words in order to preserve Noldorin/Sindarin forms, but I would still use the veri for “wife”, just conceived of as a derivative of the root √BES, coming from *besī with intervocalic s > z > r.
Reference ✧ VT49/45 ✧ “wife”
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ✶verī > veri | [berī] > [βerī] > [βeri] > [veri] | ✧ VT49/45 |
ᴹQ. vesse n. “wife” (Category: Wife)
Reference ✧ Ety/BES ✧ “wife”
Related
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ✶bessē > vesse | [bessē] > [βessē] > [βesse] > [vesse] | ✧ Ety/BES |
ᴱQ. †veri n. “wife” (Category: Wife)
Reference ✧ QL/101 ✧ “wife”
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√VEŘE > †veri | [βeðī] > [βeði] > [veði] > [vezi] > [veri] | ✧ QL/101 |
ᴱQ. †veruni n. “wife” (Category: Wife)
Reference ✧ QL/101 ✧ “wife”
Elements
| veru | “husband” | ✧ QL/101 |
| #-ni | “feminine suffix” | ✧ QL/101 (#-ni) |
ᴱQ. vesse n. “wife” (Category: Wife)
References ✧ PE13/146; QL/101
Glosses
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
| ᴱ√VEŘE > †vesse | [βeðsē] > [βeðse] > [veðse] > [veθse] > [vesse] | ✧ QL/101 |