I found the S reconstruction pess for feather (either on a bird or on a arrow or as a primitive pen, I guess). I think it's from the Q quesse. Does it look solid? Can it be added to VQP and safely used?
Seems OK. But the Q. word is from the Etymologies; if we are to believe that the absence of corresponding word in Noldorin means its absence — then no? The Ilkorin cognate cwess is glossed "down", possibly Sindarin would give the same meaning shift, especially having the derived pesseg "pillow"…
scratches head I don't see there is a difference in meaning, you say 'down' you mean 'a small feather (from the underside of a bird)' but people just hear 'feather' (with the probable premodifier of 'soft' or 'small'). I also wouldn't ever use it to mean a quill (which is what I assume you mean by 'primitive pen') given we have tegil/tegol.
In answer to the question as I've reconstructed this myself as pess from quesse, yes I would use it as a later Sindarin word. If I were after an earlier Doriathrin word I'd probably go down the aforementioned G. route, but my focus is always later Sindarin.
Tamas Ferencz Feb 14, 2015 (09:56)
Александр Запрягаев Feb 14, 2015 (09:57)
Tamas Ferencz Feb 14, 2015 (10:47)
Paul Strack Feb 15, 2015 (00:29)
Jenna Carpenter Feb 16, 2015 (15:08)
In answer to the question as I've reconstructed this myself as pess from quesse, yes I would use it as a later Sindarin word. If I were after an earlier Doriathrin word I'd probably go down the aforementioned G. route, but my focus is always later Sindarin.
Hjalmar Holm Feb 18, 2015 (15:23)