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ᴺQ. !enquain num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

ᴺQ. !enquain, num. card. “sixty” [created by EruannoVG] (Category: Large Cardinal Number)
See ᴱQ. enekkainen for discussion.

Elements

Q. enquë “six”
Q. quëan “ten”

ᴱQ. enekkainen num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

The Early Qenya Grammar (EQG) of the 1920s had ᴱQ. enekkainen “sixty” as a combination of ᴱQ. enekse “six” and ᴱQ. kainen “ten” (PE14/49, 82).

Neo-Quenya: Late in Tolkien’s life, Tolkien changed the Quenya word for “ten” to quëan or quain, which has been the basis for various neologisms for “sixty”: ᴺQ. enenquëan, ᴺQ. enenquain, or ᴺQ. enquain. I prefer to use ᴺQ. enquain for purposes of Neo-Quenya.

References ✧ PE14/49, 82

Glosses

Elements

enqe “six” ✧ PE14/49 (enekse)
kainen “ten” ✧ PE14/49

ᴺQ. !enenquain num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

See ᴱQ. enekkainen for discussion.

Elements

Q. enquë “six”
Q. quëan “ten”

ᴺQ. !enenquëan num. card. “sixty” (Category: Large Cardinal Number)

See ᴱQ. enekkainen for discussion.

Elements

Q. enquë “six”
Q. quëan “ten”