calwa

beautiful

calwa ("k") adj. "beautiful" (LT1:254)

mairëa

beautiful

mairëa adj. "beautiful" (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form "mairia" is also implied in the source.

mírya

beautiful

mírya adj. "beautiful" (of work of art only) (PE17:165)

vanima

adjective. beautiful

melwa

lovely

melwa adj. "lovely" (LT1:262); compare melda in Tolkiens later Quenya.

vanima

beautiful, fair

vanima adj. "beautiful, fair" (BAN, VT39:14) (glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used "only of living things, especially Elves and Men", PE17:150); nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of [some] beautiful ones") (LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308). Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" (see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda).

írima

lovely, beautiful, desirable

írima adj. "lovely, beautiful, desirable" (ID, FS, PE17:155), in FS also pl. írimar; in the "Qenya" of Fíriel's Song, adjectives in -a form their plurals in -ar instead of -ë as in LotR-style Quenya.

lelya

delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely

lelya (2) adj. "delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely" (PE17:139, 151)

deil

adjective. delicate

adj. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender. Q. lelya. >> dail

deil

lovely

_ adj. _lovely, beautiful. Q. lelya. >> dail

deil

adjective. beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely

dail

adjective. delicate

adj. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender. Q. lelya.

dail

adjective. lovely

_ adj. _lovely, beautiful. Q. lelya. >> deil

dail

adjective. beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely

Cognates

• Q. lelya “delicate, beautiful and fine, slender, lovely” ✧ PE17/139; PE17/151; PE17/151

Derivations

• ✶delya “lovely, fine, beautiful” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151
  • √DEL “*fair” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶delya > deil > dail	[delja] > [delia] > [deli] > [deil] > [dail]	✧ PE17/151
✶delya > deil	[delja] > [delia] > [deli] > [deil] > [dail]	✧ PE17/151

Variations

• deil ✧ PE17/139; PE17/151

bain

beautiful

_ adj. _beautiful. Q. vanya.

melui

adjective. lovely, sweet

This word only occurs in the place name Imloth Melui, a vale where roses grew

bain

adjective. beautiful, fair

bain

beautiful

bain (fair). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

bain

beautiful

(fair). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

banya

adjective. beautiful

Derivations

• √BAN “beauty (due to lack of fault or blemish); fair, beautiful” ✧ PE17/165

Derivatives

• Q. Vanya “Fair Elves, the Fair” ✧ PM/402
  • T. Vania “Vanya” ✧ WJ/383
• Q. vanya “fair, beautiful, unmarred; fair-haired (yellow to golden), fair, beautiful, unmarred; fair-haired (yellow to golden); [ᴱQ.] good (not evil), holy” ✧ PE17/165
• S. bain “fair, beautiful; good, wholesome, favorable; fair-haired, beautiful; good, wholesome, favorable; fair, fair-haired” ✧ PE17/165

bein

adjective. beautiful, fair