A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow, grassland”, an elaboration of G. flad “sward, grass”; it also had a variant form [flad]weth (GL/34).
Quenya
lairë
meadow
lairë
meadow
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fladwen
noun. meadow, grassland
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow, grassland”, an elaboration of G. flad “sward, grass”; it also had a variant form [flad]weth (GL/34).
Cognates
- Eq. fal(a)toisi “meadow, grassland” ✧ GL/35
Element in
- G. Fladweth Amrod “Nomad’s Green” ✧ GL/35; LT2A/Ladwen-na-Dhaideloth
Variations
- fladweth ✧ GL/35
fladweth
noun. meadow, grassland
glair
noun. meadow
A noun in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow” (GL/34). It also had an archaic variant form †lair, but Tolkien rejected this (GL/52). It was probably derived from the early root ᴱ√LAẎA “be alive, flourish” as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Tári-Laisi; QL/52).
Cognates
- Eq. laire “meadow” ✧ GL/39; LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Derivations
- ᴱ√LAẎA “be alive, flourish” ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LAYA > lair [laire] > [lair] ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi Variations
- lair ✧ GL/39 (
lair); GL/52 (lair); LT1A/Tári-Laisi
laire
noun. meadow
A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “meadow” and derived from the root ᴱ√LAẎA (QL/50). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the same gloss (PME/50), and in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as a cognate of G. glair “meadow” (GL/39).
Cognates
- G. glair “meadow” ✧ GL/39; LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Derivations
- ᴱ√LAẎA “be alive, flourish” ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi; PME/052; QL/052
Element in
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√laẏa > laire [laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire] ✧ PME/052 ᴱ√LAẎA > laire [laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire] ✧ QL/052 Variations
- lairë ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi
fal(a)toisi
noun. meadow, grassland
A noun appearing in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a cognate of G. fladwen “meadow, grassland” (GL/35).
Cognates
- G. fladwen “meadow, grassland” ✧ GL/35
Derivations
- ᴱ√FALA “bare, nude”
lairë (3) noun "meadow" (LT1:267, GL:39 perhaps a doubtful word in LotR-style Quenya, since lairë already has to carry two other meanings)