Quettaparma Quenyallo

mennai prep. "until" (VT14:5; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather tenna)

menta- (1) vb. "send, cause to go" (in a desired direction) (VT41:6, VT43:15). A similar-sounding primitive verb mentioned in PE17:93 is said to have past and perfect forms that would produce Quenya *mennë, *eménië, but here Tolkien seems to be discussing a distinct intransitive verb “go” and its Sindarin descendants, and Quenya menta- rather belongs to the causative (transitive) verbs which according to the same source has “weak” past-tense forms (in -në, hence *mentanë “sent”, and likely *ementië as perfect “has sent”).

menta (2) noun "sending" or "message" as in sanwe-menta "thought-sending, mental message" (VT41:5)

mentë noun "point, end" (MET)

mentië noun “passage, journey, direction of travel” (PE17:13); the elements are men- “go, proceed” + tië “path, road”. Not to be confused with the gerund of menta- #1.