glaew (i **laew), no distinct form in pl, but with article in glaew**
Quenya
laivë
ointment
Sindarin
glaew
salve
glaew
salve
(i ’laew), no distinct form in pl, but with article in glaew
Noldorin
glaew
noun. salve
glaew
noun. ointment, salve
A word for “ointment” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶(g)laibē under the root ᴹ√(G)LIB where the G appeared in Noldorin derivations as indicated by the form g-laew (Ety/LIB²; EtyAC/LIB²). In notes on The Feanorian Alphabet also from the 1930s, it was given as (archaic Gondolic) glaiw “salve” from ON. glaibe (PE22/32). A more detailed derivation appeared in notes from around 1940: ON. glaibe > glēbe > glaef > glaew (TMME/53).
Cognates
- ᴹQ. laive “ointment” ✧ Ety/LIB²; TMME/053
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶laibē > g-laew [glaibē] > [glaibe] > [glaive] > [glaiv] > [glaev] > [glaew] ✧ Ety/LIB² On. glaibe > glaiw [glaibē] > [glaibe] > [glaive] > [glaiv] > [glaev] > [glaew] ✧ PE22/032 On. glaibe > glēbe > glaef > glaew [glaibē] > [glaibe] > [glaive] > [glaiv] > [glaev] > [glaew] ✧ TMME/053 Variations
- g-laew ✧ Ety/LIB²
- glaiw ✧ PE22/032
glaiw
noun. salve
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Qenya
laive
noun. ointment
A word for “ointment” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from primitive ᴹ✶laibē under the root ᴹ√LIB (Ety/LIB²). The (archaic?) form laiwe appeared in notes written around 1940 as a cognate to N. glaew (TMME/53).
Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s Tolkien had ᴱQ. oine “unguent” and ᴱQ. oinalis (oinaliss-) “ointment”, both under the early root ᴱ√OẎO (QL/71). ᴱQ. oine “unguent” also appeared in the contemporaneous Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa (PME/71).
Cognates
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ✶laibē > laive [laibē] > [laiβē] > [laiβe] > [laive] ✧ Ety/LIB² Variations
- laiwe ✧ TMME/053
Middle Primitive Elvish
laibē
noun. ointment
Derivations
- ᴹ√(G)LIB “*ointment” ✧ Ety/LIB²
Derivatives
Early Quenya
oinalis
noun. ointment
laivë noun "ointment" (LIB2)