Qenya
landa
adjective. wide, wide, [ᴱQ.] broad
Cognates
Derivations
- ᴹ√LAD “lie flat, be flat” ✧ Ety/LAD
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LAD > landa [landa] ✧ Ety/LAD Variations
- landa ✧ Ety/LAD
landa
noun. plain
Derivations
- ᴹ√LAD “lie flat, be flat” ✧ PE22/126
Element in
- ᴹQ. lairesse nihare to tarassi, yu unta hrívesse landannar “in the summer I live in [i.e. on] the hills [as a rule], and come down to the plains in the winter” ✧ PE22/125
- ᴺQ. orolanda “upland, plateau”
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√LAD > lanna [ladna] > [lanna] ✧ PE22/126 ᴹ√LAD > landa [landa] ✧ PE22/126 Variations
- lanna ✧ PE22/126
- landa ✧ PE22/126
lanna
noun. plain
A noun for “a plain” in the Quenya Verbal System (QVS) of the 1940s derived from ᴹ√LAD “lie flat, be flat” with variants landa and lanna (PE22/126), the latter probably derived from ✱ladna with the voiced stop d becoming a nasal before nasal n. It might simply be the noun form of adjective ᴹQ. landa “wide” from The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LAD).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d stick to the form landa, which appears in an inflected form landannar “to the plains” early in QVS (PE22/125).