Eldamo : Sindarin : ýneg

S. ýneg num. card. “twelve” (Category: Cardinal Number)

S. ýneg, num. card. “twelve” (Category: Cardinal Number)

The Sindarin word for “eleven” in notes from the late 1960s was ýneg or yneg derived from ✶yūnekē “twelve = two sixes” (VT47/41; VT48/6, 9). Tolkien also considered yneb or inib as more direct cognates of yunquë “twelve”, but that seems to have been a transient idea (VT48/8).

Conceptual Development: Notes from the late 1950s had S. {iug} > imp under Q. yunquë “twelve”, but these forms were deleted (PE17/95-96).

References ✧ PE17/95-96; VT47/41; VT48/6, 8-9

Glosses

“12” ✧ VT47/41; VT48/6; VT48/9 (yneg)
“twelve” ✧ PE17/95 (imp)

Variations

ýneg ✧ VT47/41; VT48/6
imp ✧ PE17/95
iug ✧ PE17/96
yneg ✧ VT48/8; VT48/9

yneb [per editors a variant, modeled after S. minib as Q. yunque was modeled after Q. minque, of] yneg ✧ VT48/8

Changes

iug >> imp “twelve” ✧ PE17/96

Cognates

Q. yunquë “twelve” ✧ PE17/95; VT47/41; VT48/6; VT48/8; VT48/9
T. yúnecë “twelve” ✧ VT47/41 (yūnece); VT48/6 (yūnece); VT48/8 (yúnec(e)); VT48/9 (yūnec(e))

Derivations

< ✶yūnekē “twelve, 2 sixes” ✧ VT47/41 (yūneke); VT48/8 (yū-(e)nekē); VT48/9 (yū(e)neke)

Phonetic Developments

✶yūneke > ýneg

[jūneke] > [ȳneke] > [ȳnek] > [ȳneg]

✧ VT47/41

S. yneb num. card. “*twelve” (Category: Cardinal Number)

See S. ýneg for discussion.

References ✧ VT48/8

Variations

yneb ✧ VT48/8
inib ✧ VT48/8

yneb [per editors a variant, modeled after S. minib as Q. yunque was modeled after Q. minque, of] yneg ✧ VT48/8