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Q. mana pron. “what” (Category: What)

Q. mana, pron. “what, which; ⚠️[ᴹQ.] who” (Category: What)

A Quenya word for “what”, used as both a pronoun and an adjective “which”. Examples include mana i coimas Eldaron? “What is the ‘coimas’ of the Eldar?” (PM/395) and mana arano? “Which king’s” (PE23/135). ᴹQ. mana was an adjectival interrogative “what, which” in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/105), but could also be used substantially for “what” (PE23/104).

In the sense “which” (indicating a choice) it was used together with the genitive, such as mana tana márion “which of those house”. But it could also be used as a direct adjective: mana nér “what man”. Inflicted forms are generally based on the base interrogative element ma, as in masse “where” using the locative suffix -ssë.

References ✧ PE23/135; PM/395, 403

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man elided “who” ✧ PE23/135

Elements

ma² “interrogative particle”

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ᴹQ. mana pron. “who, what, which” (Category: What)

References ✧ PE22/124; PE23/99, 101-105, 111

Glosses

Variations

Inflections

manainen instrumental plural “by what means” ✧ PE23/111
manas(se) locative “where” ✧ PE23/111
Manar plural “who” ✧ PE22/124
manandon similative “after what fashion, like what” ✧ PE23/111

Elements

ma “interrogative particle” ✧ PE23/99

Element In