ᴱQ. qinde n. “womanliness, femininity; (concr.) women as a whole” (Category: Female)
A noun for “womanliness, femininity” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variant qinne, both derived from the root ᴱ√QIMI (QL/31). In the entry, this word was predeceded by the definite article in parenthesis (i) and Tolkien gave it the alternate gloss “(concr.) women as a whole”; by this I assume Tolkien mean qinde by itself meant “femininity”, but with the definite article i qinde meant “women as a whole”.
References ✧ QL/77
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| qinde- | stem | ✧ QL/77 |
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| ᴱ√QIMI > (i) qinde | [giwimdē] > [giwindē] ? [gwindē] > [gwinde] > [kwinde] > [kʷinde] | ✧ QL/77 |