Q. #engwa adj. “sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness)
An adjective for “sickly” in The Etymologies of the 1930s from the root ᴹ√GENG-WA “sick” (Ety/GENG-WĀ), used in its noun plural form ᴹQ. Engwar “The Sickly” as a name for Men (LR/245). Christopher Tolkien kept Engwar in the published version of The Silmarillion (S/103).
References ✧ S/103
Inflections
| Engwar | plural | “sickly” | ✧ S/103 |
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ᴹQ. engwa¹ adj. “sickly” (Category: Sick; Sickness)
Reference ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ ✧ engwa “sickly”
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Phonetic Developments
| ᴹ√GENG-WĀ > engwa | [geŋgwā] > [ɣeŋgwā] > [eŋgwā] > [eŋgwa] | ✧ Ety/GENG-WĀ |