I ask for help here once more. I found Early Qenya words for "spade" sampa and "axe", pelek. How to make them modern Quenya? Modern Quenya has sampane, "combination", and to confuse that with "spade" would be ... confusing for a reader. sampa comes from the Early Root SAPA "dig, excavate". The root for pelek is a s far as I know unknown. And further, I want a word for "mattock, hoe, pickaxe", so I thought of combining a modernized pelek and resta "sown field". Would that make sense? Thanks on beforehand!
Also, "vineyard" is needed. Or really, the thing one makes wine out of, i.e. "grape" or "vine", since "vineyard" is, I think, a compound with resta as the second part. limpe and miruvóre seems to be the (prepared) drink, so *limperesta seems quite weird.
For 'grapevive' perhaps we should be looking at the attested word uile 'long trailing plant' (which grapevine is, after all), and use that in a compound (*miruile?)
Tamas Ferencz May 12, 2015 (20:45)
Samoa sounds totally modern Quenya to me.
Hjalmar Holm May 12, 2015 (20:54)
And you did mean sampa.
Hjalmar Holm May 12, 2015 (20:59)
Tamas Ferencz May 12, 2015 (21:04)
Yes, I meant sampa.
Hjalmar Holm May 12, 2015 (21:32)
Perhaps *mirolva, since EQ miru, "wine" and olva, "plant".
Tamas Ferencz May 12, 2015 (21:44)
Tamas Ferencz May 13, 2015 (12:00)
Hjalmar Holm May 13, 2015 (18:43)