lairë (2) noun "poem" (GLIR)
Quenya
laire
noun. summer
lairë
summer
lairë
noun. summer
Cognates
- S. laer “summer” ✧ LotR/1107
Derivations
Element in
- Q. Corollairë “Green Mound, *(lit.) Mound of Summer”
- Q. Coron Oiolairë “Mound Ever-summer”
- Q. lairelossë “summer-snow-white, species of tree in Númenor”
- Q. Mettelairë “August, *(lit.) End-summer” ✧ PM/136
- Q. oiolairë “ever-summer (a species of tree)”
- Q. Úlairi “Ring-wraiths, (lit.) ?Un-living, Un-summer”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LAY > laire [laire] ✧ Let/282 √LAY > laire [laire] ✧ PE17/159 Variations
- laire ✧ Let/282; PE17/159; PE22/167
lairë
poem
lairë
meadow
lairë (3) noun "meadow" (LT1:267, GL:39 perhaps a doubtful word in LotR-style Quenya, since lairë already has to carry two other meanings)
Ellairë
summer
Ellairë alternative name of June (PM:135); evidently incorporating lairë "summer"; the el- part is probably an assimilated form of er-, an element meaning one or first, June being the first summer month.
lirit
poem
lirit noun "poem" (LT1:258)
lairë (1) noun "summer" (Letters:283, VT45:26), in the calendar of Imladris a precisely defined period of 72 days, but also used without any exact definition (Appendix D). Oiolairë "Eversummer", name of a tree (UT:167), see also Coron Oiolairë. Lairelossë noun *"Summer-snow", name of a tree (UT:167), perhaps with white flowers.