ᴹQ. ilqa adj. and pron. “all the, the whole (situation); everything, all” (Category: Whole)
An adjective or pronoun for “all the, the whole” appearing in Demonstrative, Relative, and Correlative Stems (DRC) from 1948 as a combination of ᴹQ. il(u)- “the whole” and ᴹQ. qa- “each, every, all” (PE23/106). It also functioned as a prefix of similar meaning (PE23/101). As an adjective Tolkien specified ilqa was used with singular nouns and without the article, as in ᴹQ. ilqa nóre “all the land” (PE23/106). It could be used pronominally to mean “the whole (situation)” (PE23/105).
Conceptual Development: In drafts of DRC, ilqa meant “every, each” before being revised to qa(qe) (PE23/101 note #36). In DRC, primitive ᴹ√kwā- meant “all”, possibly related to ᴹ√KWAT “fill” (PE23/101). However, in The Etymologies of the 1930s ilqa was instead “everything”, because in that document ᴹ√KWA meant “something”, so that il-qa = “*all things” (Ety/IL; EtyAC/KWA). The word ilqa was translated as “all” (pronoun) in ᴹQ. Fíriel’s Song, also from the 1930s (LR/72).
Neo-Quenya: In Tolkien’s later writings, IL was “all” (VT48/25) and √KWA was translated “whole, complete, all” (VT47/7, 17), but I think ilqua might still be used for “all the, the whole” with a reversal of the meaning of its elements.
References ✧ Ety/IL; EtyAC/KWA; LR/72; PE22/119; PE23/101, 105-106, 111
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Inflections
| Ilqainen | dative plural | “To all” | ✧ LR/72 |
| ilqas(se) | locative | “in the whole region” | ✧ PE23/111 |
Elements
| ᴹ√IL | “all” | ✧ Ety/IL | |
| ᴹ√KWA | “all; something” | ✧ EtyAC/KWA | |
| il(u)- | “all the, the whole, the entire; all, any” | ✧ PE23/101 (il-) | |
| qa(qe)- | “all, all the (with plurals), every; each, every” | ✧ PE23/101 (qa-) | |
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