Lemizh / English dictionary
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qentà.
self-receiving: to smoke tobacco
qentÌ. tobacco smoke
qentù. tobacco pipe (also the constellation in the region of Leo, Sextans and Hydra; see appendix, Constellations)
qentuglùf. cigar (⇐ ⇔ qentù glÌfu. ‘rolled tobacco pipe/implement’)
Etymology
< NLem qent‑a ‘smoke (also tobacco)’
< LMLem, MLem qent‑a ‘smoke (also herbs)’
< OLem thent‑ ‘to smoke (also herbs)’
< PLem *sent‑ ‘to smoke’, Narten present of
< PIE *sen‑dʰh₁‑ ‘secrete’, compound of
PIE *sen ‘aside, away’
—and—
PIE *dʰeh₁‑ ‘put, make’
doublet of qnàt.
Cognates
Eng cinder, Gk ὄνθος ‘dung’