Q. aiquen pron. “if anybody, whoever” (Category: Any)
A word appearing in the Quendi and Eldar essay from 1959-60, translated “if anybody, whoever” (WJ/372). Its second element is quén “person”, and its initial element is probably ai indicating uncertainty (PE22/97, 120, 138).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would also use aiquen for “anybody, anyone”; see ᴺQ. ai(a)- “any-” for discussion.
References ✧ WJ/372, 375
Glosses
Related
Elements
| ai² | “supposing, suppose, maybe” | |
| quén | “person, individual, man or woman; one, somebody” | ✧ WJ/372 (quen) |
Cognates
ᴹQ. immane pron. “anybody, anything, anyone” (Category: Any)
The correlative ᴹQ. immane “anybody, anyone” appeared in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 (PE23/111), a pronominal form of ᴹQ. imma “any”. It could also be used to mean “anything” for concrete things rather than abstract facts (which were imma).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use aiquen for “anyone”; see ᴺQ. ai(a)- “any-” for discussion. I would ᴺQ. aima for “anything”.
Reference ✧ PE23/103 ✧ “anybody, anything, anyone”
Elements
| imma | “any, any at all (in the world/existence); anything” |