Q. mana pron. “what” (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
Glosses
Variations
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Inflections
| man | elided | “who” | ✧ PE23/135 |
Elements
| ma² | “interrogative particle” |
Element In
Cognates
Derivations
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