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ᴹQ. qelet (qelett-) n. “corpse” (Category: Corpse, Body)

ᴹQ. quelet (quelett-), n. “corpse” (Category: Corpse, Body)

A noun for “corpse” in The Etymologies written around 1937 derived from primitive ᴹ✶kwelett- under the root ᴹ√KWEL “fade (away)” (Ety/KWEL). It had a plural form qeletsi indicating a stem form of qelets-, but that is inconsistent with its attested primitive form; its plural may instead be a conceptual remnant of the Early Qenya sound change whereby [ti] became [tsi] (PE12/23).

Conceptual Development: ᴱQ. qelet “corpse” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QELE “perish, die, decay, fade”, but there its stem form was qelekt- (QL/76). ᴹQ. qelet “corpse” reappeared in the Declension of Nouns from the early 1930s, but there its stem form seems to be qelet- (PE21/33, 35). Its early 1930s nominative plural qeletsin also shows ti > tsi (PE21/35).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d assume a stem form quelett- (and plural queletti) consistent with its primitive form. If the stem form was quelets-, then the uninflected form would be **queles, since final -ts became -s (PE19/104).

References ✧ Ety/KWEL; PE21/33, 35

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Inflections

[qel]etullo ablative ✧ PE21/35
[qel]ityo ablative; assimilated ✧ PE21/35
[qel]eta accusative ✧ PE21/35
[qel]elta allative; assimilated ✧ PE21/35
[qel]etunta allative ✧ PE21/35
[qel]ilta allative; assimilated ✧ PE21/35
[qel]eten dative ✧ PE21/35
[qel]eto genitive ✧ PE21/35
[qel]etanen instrumental ✧ PE21/35
[qel]etwen instrumental ✧ PE21/35
[qel]inten instrumental ✧ PE21/35
[qel]itse locative; assimilated ✧ PE21/35
qeletesse locative ✧ PE21/35
qeletse locative; assimilated ✧ PE21/35
qelet nominative ✧ PE21/35
qeletunt nominative dual ✧ PE21/35
qeletsin nominative plural ✧ PE21/35
qeletsi plural ✧ Ety/KWEL
qelitya possessive ✧ PE21/35
qeletundon similative ✧ PE21/35
qeliston similative ✧ PE21/35

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Phonetic Developments

ᴹ✶kwelett- > qelet [kwelette] > [kwelett] > [kwelet] ✧ Ety/KWEL

ᴱQ. qelet (qelekt-) n. “corpse” (Category: Corpse, Body)

References ✧ QL/76

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qelekt- stem ✧ QL/76

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ᴱ√QELE > qelet [kʷelekt] > [kʷelet] ✧ QL/76