Early Quenya
lapil
noun. swathe, flowing cloth
Derivations
- ᴱ√LAPA “enfold” ✧ QL/051
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√LAPA > lapil [lapa-] ✧ QL/051
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A word appearing as ᴱQ. lapil “a swathe, a flowing cloth” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LAPA “enfold” (QL/51).
Neo-Quenya: The root √LAP “fold, bend” reappears in Tolkien’s later writings, so I’d retain ᴺQ. lapil “swathe, flowing cloth” for purposes of Neo-Quenya, used of both a broad area of some covering or crop (“swathe”) as well as a large piece of loose cloth.