lanya

thread

#lanya (3) noun "thread", isolated from hísilanya "mist thread" (PE17:60)

lerina

free

lerina adj. "free" of things: not guarded, reserved, made fast, or "owned" (VT41:5)

lá-

verb. to not be

Changes

• lamin → lanye ✧ VT49/13

Derivations

• ✶lā- “to not be” ✧ PE22/153; PE22/153; VT49/13
  • √LA “no, not; negative; not to be” ✧ PE22/153
• √LA “no, not; negative; not to be” ✧ PE22/156; VT42/33; VT49/13

Element in

• Q. ála “do not” ✧ VT43/22
• Q. epetai i hyarma ú ten ulca símaryassen “consequently the left hand was not to them evil in their imaginations” ✧ VT49/13
• ᴺQ. laitë “false”
• Q. melin sé apa lanyë hé “I love him but not him (the other)” ✧ VT49/15
• Q. melinyes apa la hé “I love him but not him (the other)” ✧ VT49/15

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶lā > lanye	[lanye]	✧ PE22/153
✶lājā > laia	[lājā] > [laijā] > [laija] > [laia]	✧ PE22/153
√(A)LA > lā-	[lā-]	✧ PE22/156
√ala > lá	[lā-]	✧ VT42/33
√ala > lā	[lā-]	✧ VT49/13
✶lājā > laia	[lājā] > [laijā] > [laija] > [laia]	✧ VT49/13

Variations

• la ✧ PE22/154; VT43/22; VT49/15
• lā- ✧ PE22/156
• lá ✧ VT42/33; VT49/13; VT49/13
• lā ✧ VT49/13
• lamin ✧ VT49/13 (lamin)

fairë

free

fairë (4) adj. "free" (LT1:250) (rather léra, lerina or mirima in LotR-style Quenya)

lehta

free, released

lehta (2) adj. "free, released" (VT39:17); #lehta tengwë "free element, released element", a term for "vowel" (only pl. lehta tengwi [ñ] is attested; we would rather expect *lehtë tengwi with the pl. form of the adjective) (VT39:17)

léra

free

léra adj. noun "free", of persons (VT41:5)

aranya

free

aranya, also ranya, adj. "free". Another gloss was not certainly legible, but the editors suggest "uncontrolling" (VT46:10)

ráva

free, unfettered, uncontrolled, lawless

ráva (1) adj. "free, unfettered, uncontrolled, lawless" (PE17:78), "wild, untamed"_ (RAB). _In PE17:78, the gloss "wild" is given to the variant hráva instead.

mirima

free

mirima adj. "free" (MIS). ("Free" is rather expressed as léra in Tolkiens later Quenya; mirima would be prone to confusion with mírima above.)

lain

adjective. free, freed

lain

noun. thread

lain

noun. thread, warp, ‽twine, thread, warp

An element in the name of the grey elvish rope S. hithlain (LotR/371) which in a note from the late 1960s was glossed “grey thread” and derived from √LAN “stretch, extend; ?twine” (PE17/60). As such, the word lain probably means “thread”. Tolkien later wrote “warp” after hithlain, probably an alternate meaning of lain, likely with the sense of cross-threads as in the “warp and weft” that are part of weaving in a loom.

Cognates

• Q. lanya “thread, warp” ✧ PE17/060

Derivations

• √LAN “stretch, extend; ‽twine, stretch, extend; ‽twine; [ᴹ√] weave” ✧ PE17/060

Element in

• ᴺS. golain “connection, relation, context, (lit.) threadage”
• S. hithlain “mist thread, grey elvish rope” ✧ PE17/060

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√LAN > lain	[lanja] > [lania] > [lenia] > [leni] > [lein] > [lain]	✧ PE17/060

lhê

noun. fine thread, spider filament

lain

thread

(noun) lain; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone is the adjective ”free, freed”.

lain

thread

; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone is the adjective ”free, freed”.

lain

free, freed

1) lain; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”thread”. 2)

lain

adjective. free(d), *liberated

Derivations

• √LEK “loose, unbind, let, permit, loose, unbind, let, permit, [ᴹ√] let loose, release”

Element in

• ᴺS. leidhron “liberator, saviour”
• ᴺS. leinas “freedom, liberty”

lain

free, freed

; no distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”thread”.

rain

free

rain (wandering, erratic). No distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”border” (VT46:10; suggested Sindarin form of ” Noldorin” rhain)

rain

free

(wandering, erratic). No distinct pl. form. Note: a homophone means ”border” *(VT46:10; suggested Sindarin form of ” Noldorin” rhain)*

lae-

verb. to not be

Derivations

• ✶lā- “to not be”
  • √LA “no, not; negative; not to be” ✧ PE22/153

leitha

set free

(i leitha, i leithar)

adleitha

free

(i adleitha, in adleithar), also †adleg- (i adleg, in edlegir), pa.t. adlenc, pp. adlengen, pl. edlengin).

lā-

verb. to not be

Derivations

• √LA “no, not; negative; not to be” ✧ PE22/153

Derivatives

• Q. lá- “to not be” ✧ PE22/153; PE22/153; VT49/13
• ᴺS. lae- “to not be”

Element in

• ✶lāni/lanjē karnē-sa “I did not do it” ✧ PE22/140; PE22/140
• ✶lasa “not it = it is/was not so” ✧ PE22/140

Variations

• la ✧ PE22/140
• lā ✧ PE22/153

ler

root. free

A root appearing twice in a list of roots from 1959-60, the first time described as “free (of moveable things or moving things), able to move as willed, unimpeded, unhampered, loose, not fixed fast or static” and the second time as “am free to do, sc., am under no restraint (physical or other)” (VT41/5-6). In the second instance it was compared to √POL which had the sense of being physically able to do something. It seems that √LER = “able to do something because there is nothing preventing it” vs. √POL = “able to something because of physical ability”. It might also be contrasted with √LEK which has the sense of freeing something that was once bound, whereas with √LER the thing that is free may have never been bound in the first place.

Derivatives

• Q. léra “free (of persons)” ✧ PE17/160; VT41/05
• ᴺQ. lerië “issue, release, edition”
• Q. lerina “free (of things)” ✧ PE17/160; VT41/05
• Q. lerta- “to be free to do” ✧ PE17/160; VT41/06
• Q. lerya- “to release, set free, let go” ✧ PE17/160; VT41/05

Element in

• Q. lerya- “to release, set free, let go”

Variations

• ler ✧ VT41/05; VT41/06

lhain

adjective. free, freed

lhain

adjective. free(d)

Cognates

• Ilk. legol “nimble, active, running free” ✧ Ety/LEK

Derivations

• ᴹ√LEK “loose, let loose, release” ✧ Ety/LEK

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ√LEK > lhein > lhain	[lekna] > [legna] > [leŋna] > [leina] > [lein] > [l̥ein] > [l̥ain]	✧ Ety/LEK

lhein

adjective. free, freed

rhain

adjective. free

Cognates

• ᴹQ. (a)ranya “free” ✧ EtyAC/RAN

Derivations

• ᴹ✶(a)ranyā “free, ?uncontrolling” ✧ EtyAC/RAN
  • ᴹ√RAN “wander, stray” ✧ Ety/RAN

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶(a)ranı̯ā > rhein > rhain	[ranjā] > [ranja] > [rania] > [renia] > [reni] > [rein] > [r̥ein] > [r̥ain]	✧ EtyAC/RAN

Variations

• rhain ✧ EtyAC/RAN
• erein ✧ EtyAC/RAN (erein)

thlê

noun. fine thread, spider filament