Quenya 

lairë

meadow

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)


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Gnomish

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

Element in

  • G. Fladweth Amrod “Nomad’s Green” ✧ GL/35; LT2A/Ladwen-na-Dhaideloth

Variations

  • fladweth ✧ GL/35
Gnomish [GL/35; LT2A/Ladwen-na-Dhaideloth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√LAYA > lair[laire] > [lair]✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi

Variations

  • lair ✧ GL/39 (lair); GL/52 (lair); LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Gnomish [GL/39; GL/52; LT1A/Tári-Laisi] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

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

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√laẏa > laire[laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire]✧ PME/052
ᴱ√LAẎA > laire[laðʲrē] > [laðʲre] > [lajre] > [laire]✧ QL/052

Variations

  • lairë ✧ LT1A/Tári-Laisi
Early Quenya [GL/39; LT1A/Tári-Laisi; PME/052; QL/052] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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”
Early Quenya [GL/35] Group: Eldamo. Published by