Q. atendëa pn. “double-middle”

⚠️Q. atendëa, pn. “double-middle”
Q. enderi “middle-days”
The name of leap-days added during the summer used to adjust the Númenórean calendar in the 1st edition of The Lord of the Rings (RC/728). It is a combination of at(a)- “double”, endë “middle” and the adjective suffix -a. In the 2nd edition, the name was changed to the enderi (LotR/1108).

Reference ✧ RC/728 ✧ “double-middle”

Elements

at(a)- “double, second time” ✧ RC/728 (#at-)
#endëa “middle” ✧ RC/728 (#endëa)

ᴹQ. Endien pn. “Midyear (week)”

A Mid-year week of holidays appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a compound of ende “middle” and yén “year” (Ety/LEP, YEN). It also appeared in the early drafts of the Lord of the Rings appendices as an alternate name for Autumn (PM/135).

See Q. enderi for further discussion.

References ✧ Ety/LEP, YEN; PM/135

Glosses

Elements

ende “centre, middle, core”
yén “year” ✧ Ety/YEN
ᴹ√(E)NED “centre, middle” ✧ Ety/YEN (ÉNED)

Cognates

ᴱQ. austalende n. “mid-summer’s day” (Category: Summer)

A word for “mid-summer’s day” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s (QL/33; PME/33). It was derived from ᴱ✶austakalende, so its first element was ᴱQ. austa “summer” and its second ᴱQ. kalende “festival”.

References ✧ PME/33; QL/33

Glosses

Elements

austa “(high) summer” ✧ QL/33
kalende “festival, a special day”

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ✶austakalende > austalende [austakalende] ? [austalende] ✧ QL/33