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Qenya 

lára

adjective. flat

Cognates

  • N. dalw “flat” ✧ Ety/DAL

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶lāda “flat” ✧ Ety/DAL
    • ᴹ√DAL “flat” ✧ Ety/DAL
  • ᴹ√LAD “lie flat, be flat” ✧ Ety/LAD

Element in

  • ᴺQ. lára- “to flatten, level”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶lāda > lára[lāda] > [lāða] > [lāra]✧ Ety/DAL
ᴹ√LAD > lāra[lāda] > [lāða] > [lāra]✧ Ety/LAD

Variations

  • lára ✧ Ety/DAL
  • lāra ✧ EtyAC/LAD (lāra)
Qenya [Ety/DAL; EtyAC/LAD] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lára

noun. grave

A rejected noun for “grave” in a deleted entry in The Etymologies written around 1937 for the root ᴹ√DAG “dig” (EtyAC/DAG).

Conceptual Development: There was a word ᴱQ. kaune “grave” in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa of the 1910s based on the early root ᴱ√KAVA which also meant “dig” (QL/45; PME/45). In the first version of the ᴱQ. Oilima Markirya poem and its drafts written around 1930, Tolkien used ᴱQ. sapsa or sapta for “grave” (MC/221; PE16/75), a word that is clearly based on another root meaning “dig”: ᴱ√SAPA.

Neo-Quenya: Since √SAP appeared in Tolkien’s later writings with the same or similar meaning (PE19/86), I’d adapted ᴺQ. sapta for “grave”, along with the meaning “(delved) hole, pit”; see that entry for discussion.

Derivations

  • ᴹ√DAG “dig” ✧ EtyAC/DAG

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√DAG > lára[dagra] > [lagra] > [laɣra] > [lāra]✧ EtyAC/DAG

Variations

  • lára ✧ EtyAC/DAG (lára)

almárea

adjective. blessed

Qenya [Ety/GALA; EtyAC/AL; EtyAC/GAL(AS)] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mána

adjective. blessed

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MAN “holy spirit” ✧ EtyAC/MAN

Element in

  • ᴹQ. talantie “they are holy, blessed, and beloved — save the dark one: he is fallen” ✧ LR/072

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√MAN > manna[manna]✧ EtyAC/MAN

Variations

  • manna ✧ EtyAC/MAN (manna)
Qenya [EtyAC/MAN; LR/072] Group: Eldamo. Published by