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Q. alqua n. “swan” (Category: Swan)

Q. alqua, n. “swan” (Category: Swan)
ᴱQ. siloinë “swan”

The Quenya noun for “swan” derived from primitive ✶alkwā (NM/378; PE18/100; UT/265; Ety/ÁLAK).

Conceptual Development: The word ᴱQ. alqa dates all the way back to the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, where it was a derivative of the early root ᴱ√ḶKḶ (QL/30), though it had a variant form alqe in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon (GL/18). Other than this one exception, Tolkien stuck with alqua throughout his life. In The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹQ. alqa “swan” appeared under the root ᴹ√ALAK “rushing” (Ety/ÁLAK).

References ✧ NM/378; PE18/100; SA/alqua; UT/265; VT42/7

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alkwā > alqua [alkwā] > [alkwa] ✧ NM/378
álkwā > alqua [alkwā] > [alkwa] ✧ PE18/100
alak- > alqua [alakwā] > [alkwā] > [alkwa] ✧ SA/alqua
alkwa > alqua [alkwa] ✧ UT/265
alkwa > alqua [alkwa] ✧ VT42/7

ᴹQ. alqa n. “swan” (Category: Swan)

See Q. alqua for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/ÁLAK ✧ “swan”

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ᴹ✶alk-wā > alqa [alkwā] > [alkwa] ✧ Ety/ÁLAK

ᴱQ. alqa n. “swan” (Category: Swan)

See Q. alqua for discussion.

References ✧ GL/18; LT1A/Alqaluntë; LT2A/Alqarámë; PE13/136, 159; QL/30

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ᴱ√(I)ḶKḶ > Alqa [ḹkʷa] > [alkʷa] ✧ QL/30