Sindarin 

crui

noun. colour

Element in

  • ᴺS. cruin “coloured”
  • ᴺS. cruith “colour, complexion, appearance”

Primitive elvish

kwil

root. colour, colour, color

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. quilë “colour, hue, colour, color, hue”
  • ᴺQ. quilin “bright-coloured, adorned, embroidered, adorned; (orig.) bright-coloured, *embellished; embroidered”
  • ᴺQ. quilya- “to adorn, embellish, colour, to colour, color, embellish, *paint, adorn”

Element in

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Qenya 

laite

noun. colour

Cognates

  • ᴺS. laed “colour, color”

Gnomish

crui

noun. colour

Element in

  • G. cruim “coloured” ✧ GL/27
  • G. cruith “colour, complexion, appearance” ✧ GL/27

Variations

  • Crui ✧ GL/27

Early Primitive Elvish

qili

root. *colour

An unglossed root in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives having to do with colour and adornments like ᴱQ. qile “hue, colour” and ᴱQ. qilya- “adorn, embellish, colour” (QL/77). It had derivatives in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon as well such as G. cwil “hue, tint” (GL/28). As there are no better options for a generic words for “colour” in Tolkien’s later writing, I recommend positing a Neo-Eldarin root ᴺ√KWIL “colour” to preserve these Early Qenya words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. qille “blue-bell” ✧ QL/077
  • Eq. -qilna “-pied” ✧ QL/077
  • Eq. qile “hue, colour” ✧ QL/077
  • Eq. qilin “adorned, bright-coloured, embroidered” ✧ QL/077
  • Eq. qiltasse “(em)broidery” ✧ QL/077
  • Eq. qilya- “to adorn, embellish, colour” ✧ QL/077
  • G. cwil “hue, tint”

Variations

  • qil- ✧ GL/22
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