Quenya 

lesta

noun. *girdle, belt

Cognates

  • S. lest “girdle, girdle, *belt”

Element in

  • Q. Lestanórë “Doriath, *(lit.) Land of the Girdle” ✧ WJ/369

Variations

  • Lesta ✧ WJ/369 (Lesta)

quilta

girdle, belt

quilta noun "girdle, belt" (QL:78); the same source also lists a verb qilti- (sic) "gird, encircle"; one could perhaps read *quilta- if this verb were to be adapted to Tolkiens later Quenya.

Lestanórë

doriath

Lestanórë place-name "Doriath", gen. Lestanórëo (WJ:369). If this name means the same as the Sindarin name Doriath, "Land of the Fence", #lesta ought to mean "fence" here (but it is obviously not a cognate of the Sindarin term iâth "fence").It may mean "girdle"; compare Sindarin Lest Melian as a name of the Girdle of Melian (WJ:XXX), suggesting*"Girdle-land" as the meaning of Lestanórë.

quilta

noun. belt, girdle

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. KWILIT “belt, girdle”

Element in

Sindarin 

lest

noun. girdle, girdle, *belt

Cognates

  • Q. lesta “*girdle, belt”

Element in

Variations

  • Lest ✧ WJ/228

lest

noun. girdle

Sindarin [WJ/333, WJ/225, WJ/228] Group: SINDICT. Published by

Doriath

noun. land of the fence

(n-)dôr (“land,dwelling”) + iâth (“fence”); genitival sequences with possessor or qualifier second in the later period became fixed compounds, as Dóriath; #probably reinterpreted by Tolkien from earlier ” land of the cave” < (n-)dôr (“land, dwelling-place”) + #i (sing or genitive article) + gath (“cavern”) [Etym. GATH-]

Sindarin [Tolkiendil] Group: Tolkiendil Compound Sindarin Names. Published by

Doriath

Doriath

topon.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:128] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

lest

girdle

lest (boundary, fence), pl. list

Doriath

place name. Land of the Fence

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth.

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway "Doriath"] Published by

Doriath

Doriath

Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence" or "Land of the Girdle". The name consists of the elements dôr + iâth. The earlier name of Doriath, Eglador, probably means either "Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the Elves"[source?] in Sindarin.

Sindarin [Tolkien Gateway] Published by

Primitive elvish

kwilit

root. belt, girdle

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. quilta “belt, girdle”
  • ᴺQ. quilta- “to gird, encircle”
Primitive elvish Group: Eldamo - fan adaptations. Published by

Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Primitive Elvish

qḷtḷ

root. *belt, girdle

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. qalta “girdled, girt” and ᴱQ. qilta “belt, girdle” (QL/78).

Neo-Eldarin: I think it worth positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KWILIT “belt, girdle” to preserve some of these Early Qenya words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. qilta “belt, girdle” ✧ QL/078
  • Eq. qilti- “to gird, encircle” ✧ QL/078
  • Eq. qalta “girdled, girt” ✧ QL/078
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/078] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

qilta

noun. belt, girdle

Derivations

  • ᴱ√QḶTḶ “*belt, girdle” ✧ QL/078

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√QḶTḶ > qilta[kʷḷtā] > [kʷḷta] > [kʷilta]✧ QL/078
Early Quenya [PME/078; QL/035; QL/078] Group: Eldamo. Published by