Eldamo : Quenya : quer-

Q. quer- v. (basic-verb) “to turn” (Category: to Turn)

Q. quer-, v. (basic-verb) “to turn, *revolve” (Category: to Turn)

A verb for “turn” appearing in various forms in the Ambidexters Sentence from 1969 (VT49/20-21). It is clearly based on the root √KWER “revolve” (PE17/65), and so probably has that sense as well. If so, this verb might be used both transitively (turn something) and intransitively (turn oneself = revolve).

Conceptual Development: A similar verb ᴱQ. {wir- >>} kere “turn” appeared in Early Qenya Word-lists from the 1920s (PE16/134), likely based on the early root ᴱ√KERE of the same meaning (PE14/65). This early root had a variant ᴱ√ku̯ere [KWER] which Tolkien eventually decided was the normal form of the root.

References ✧ VT49/20-21

ᴹQ. pel- “to go round, revolve, return” may in the senses “revolve, return” be replaced by quer- “to turn”

Changes

quernesse >> quernes ✧ VT49/20

Inflections

quere	aorist	“turns”	✧ VT49/21
querne	past	“turned”	✧ VT49/20
quernes	past 3rd-sg		✧ VT49/20
quernesse	past 3rd-sg		✧ VT49/20

Element In

ᴺQ. !auquer- “to reject, (lit.) turn away”
ᴺQ. !nanquer- “to turn back, turn around”
ᴺQ. !quequer- “to wag”
ᴺQ. !querda “turn (e.g. in a game)”
Q. nanquer- “*to turn back”
Q. #querna “*turned”
Q. úsië, an cé mo quernë cendelë númenna, ve senya “on the contrary, for if one turned the face westward, as was usual” ✧ VT49/6; VT49/7; VT49/8

Cognates

ᴺS. !perna- “to turn”
ᴺS. !per- “to turn”

Derivations

< √KWER “revolve”