Middle Primitive Elvish
ala
root. no, not; to be not
ala
root. *blessed
Derivatives
Variations
- ALA ✧ Ety/ÁLAM; EtyAC/GALÁS
- AL ✧ Ety/ÁLAM (
AL); EtyAC/AL (AL)
la
root. no, not; to be not
Derivatives
Element in
- ᴹQ.
[[mq|laqe[t]-]]“[unglossed]” ✧ EtyAC/LA (laqe[t])Variations
- ALA ✧ EtyAC/ALA (
ALA); EtyAC/LA (ALA); EtyAC/LA (ALA); PE22/126- LĀ ✧ EtyAC/ALA (
LĀ); PE22/126
rāmā
noun. wing
Derivations
- ᴹ√RAM “*wing, fly” ✧ Ety/RAM
Derivatives
- ᴹQ. ráma “wing” ✧ Ety/RAM
ar
root. day
Derivatives
Element in
ari
noun. day
Derivations
- ᴹ√AR “day” ✧ Ety/AR¹
Derivatives
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√AR¹ > ari- [ari] ✧ Ety/AR¹ Variations
- ari- ✧ Ety/AR¹
nyol
root. ring
epe
preposition. after
Derivatives
- N. eb “?before”
Element in
- ᴹ✶epe ndere “after the man” ✧ PE21/64
Variations
- ĕpĕ ✧ PE21/64
gū
root. no, not
Changes
GŪ/GUMU→ GŪ ✧ Ety/GŪDerivatives
Element in
- ᴹ√UMU “negative stems” ✧ Ety/UGU; Ety/UGU
Variations
- MŪ ✧ Ety/MŪ; Ety/UGU
- GŪ/GUMU ✧ EtyAC/GŪ (
GŪ/GUMU)- ƷŪ ✧ EtyAC/ƷŪ (
ƷŪ)
gū̆-
interjection. no, not
Derivations
Derivatives
Variations
- ugu/gū ✧ Ety/UGU
- gū- ✧ EtyAC/GŪ
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “day” with various derivatives like ᴹQ. are, N. aur “day” and ᴹQ. arin “morning” (Ety/AR¹). In Tolkien’s later writings, the Quenya word for “day” became aurë (RC/727; S/190), and in 1957 Quenya Notes he devised a new etymology for these day-words from the root √UR “heat” as in ✶auri “heat, period of sun” (PE17/148). That opens the question whether the various 1930s Quenya “morning” words from ᴹ√AR remain valid, but many Neo-Quenya writers (including me) retain them since there aren’t really any good alternatives. They might be salvageable as derivatives of the later root √AS “warmth” (so that “day” = “hot” and “morning” = “warm”).