ᴹQ. qet- v. (basic-verb) “to say, tell, mention” (Category: to Say)

References ✧ PE22/118-119; PE23/86, 92, 94, 99, 103-104; SM/206

Glosses

• “say” ✧ SM/206 (quete-)

Variations

• quete- ✧ SM/206

Related

• Quenta “story” ✧ SM/206

Inflections

qete	aorist		✧ PE22/118
qete	aorist	“say”	✧ PE22/119
qete	aorist	“says”	✧ PE23/103
quetin	aorist with-1st-sg-object	“says to me, tells me”	✧ PE23/94
qetis	aorist with-sg-object	“tell him”	✧ PE22/118
qente	past	“said”	✧ PE22/119; PE23/104
qente	past	“say”	✧ PE23/103
quente	past	“told”	✧ PE23/92
quente	past	“said”	✧ PE23/92
qenteza	past with-abstract-object	“said it”	✧ PE23/92
qentes	past with-sg-object	“said it”	✧ PE23/86
eqétie	perfect	“have mentioned”	✧ PE23/99
qente	soft-mutation; t-mutation	“did ... say”	✧ PE23/99

Element In

• ᴹQ. avaqet- “to refuse, forbid”
• ᴹQ. laqe[t]- “[unglossed]”
• ᴹQ. qeqetta- “to repeat, keep on saying”
• ᴹQ. qettima “utterable”
• ᴹQ. A ethe·quente andake he “A told him (or B) to kill him (C)” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. A ethe·quente kari he “A told him (or B) to make it” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. A lámie B ye B túlie ye A ethequente: sí makiletya keróvie, tuvo te ye B ethetúvie “A called to B {and} B/he came and A said to him: here is {your} the sword that you {had} lost[,] take it, and B took it” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. A lámie na B/thenna ye ethequente ‘sie makiletya i keróvie, tuvo te’; ye B ethetúvie “A called to B/him and said to him/B: ‘here is the sword that you lost, take it’; and B/he took it” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. A lámie thenna ye ethequente túvo he “A called to him and said take it” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. aquetin “one says to me, tells me, I am informed” ✧ PE23/94
• ᴹQ. arye qete arya “another man says something else” ✧ PE23/103
• ᴹQ. e·kestane ma leqente tana “he asked if you (had) said that” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. ethequente andake thé “he (A) told him (B) to kill himself (B)” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. inér e·qentes “it was he (the man) who said {that >>} it” ✧ PE23/86
• ᴹQ. le·qente mana? “what did you say?” ✧ PE23/99; PE23/103
• ᴹQ. má le·qente? sa ela kenyuvas “[what did you say?] that he will not see it” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. ma le·qente tana “did you say that?” ✧ PE23/104
• ᴹQ. mana le·qente “what did you say?” ✧ PE23/103
• ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·tule “I said he is coming, I said (that) he was coming” ✧ PE22/119
• ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·tulle “I said he came, I stated that (at some time previous to my speaking) he came (but was no longer present)” ✧ PE22/119
• ᴹQ. ni qente (sa) e·utúlie “I said he had come” ✧ PE22/119
• ᴹQ. niqenteza “I said it” ✧ PE23/92
• ᴹQ. ni qete (sa) e·tule “I say (that) he is coming” ✧ PE22/119
• ᴹQ. **ni qetis tule “I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come” ✧ PE22/118
• ᴹQ. ni·te·qete tule “I tell him to come, say to him to come, bid him to come” ✧ PE22/118
• ᴹQ. sí tina·mbar (i l’eqétie) “now this house (of yours) that you have mentioned” ✧ PE23/99

Derivations

• < ᴹ√KWET “say”

ᴱQ. qet- v. “to speak, talk” (Category: to Speak, Talk)

References ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin; PE14/54; PE15/32; PE16/134; QL/77

Glosses

• “speak” ✧ PE16/134
• “speak, talk” ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin; QL/77

Variations

• qet- ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin; PE16/134; QL/77

Changes

• qense >> qensiēma ✧ PE14/54
• qensiēma >> qetsime “were told” ✧ PE14/54

Inflections

qense	past		✧ PE14/54
qensie	past	“were told”	✧ PE14/54
qente	past	“*said”	✧ PE15/32
qente	past		✧ QL/77
qentë	past		✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin
qentien	past 1st-sg	“*I said”	✧ PE15/32
qensiēma	past passive-participle		✧ PE14/54
qetsime	past passive-participle	“were told”	✧ PE14/54
qentier	past plural	“*was said”	✧ PE15/32

Element In

• ᴱQ. eldaqet “language of the Eldar” ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin
• ᴱQ. nanqete “speaking down the nose”
• ᴱQ. en ilta n·ner ya me·qetsime ka húyo ne hwa·telpe ie-rautanéma ompa va húyo “thereupon in came the man {from whom we heard >>} by whom we were told his money had all been stolen from him” ✧ PE14/54
• ᴱQ. qentien no máre nar i hondor “*than good, I said, are the hearts” ✧ PE15/32
• ᴱQ. sí qente Feanor n·istaléra “*now said Feanor the wise” ✧ PE15/32
• ᴱQ. varúse qentier nóvo san i “*in other manner than was said before” ✧ PE15/32
• ᴱQ. ya qensie melmur ne iksa telpe rautanéma “by whom we were told his money had all been stolen from him” ✧ PE14/54

Cognates

• G. cwed- “to say, tell” ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin

Derivations

• < ᴱ√QETE “*speak” ✧ LT2A/Tôn a Gwedrin; QL/77

Phonetic Developments

ᴱ√QETE > qet-

[kʷet-]

✧ QL/77