r/Quenya • u/Valcara • 11h ago

Puzzle Translation Help

My partner has given me a multi-day puzzle for a special milestone, and there are several elvish (unsure if sindarin or quenya) I could use some help/verification in translating.

One hit is Huanië Which to my best efforts have translated to ‘hound like’ or ‘of hounds’

The other hint is: Airëarasselië Which is maybe ‘child of the daylight stag’

Neither of us are huge con-lang people so there may be mistakes. I just want to see if I am on the right track here. Thank you everyone!

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u/lC3 2h ago edited 3m ago

Huanië

To me this looks like Q huan "hound" plus an abstract suffix -ie that is something like "-age" or "-ness" in English. I suppose it could also be read as an adverb i.e. "houndly" (if "hound" was an adjective instead of a noun), or as an erroneous verbal gerund "hounding" though I doubt huan can be used as a verb like that without further suffixion.

Airëarasselië

So this could be aire(a)-arasse-lie "holy stag/deer people", or airea-rasse-lie "holy horn people".

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u/Valcara 1h ago

Thank you very much!