Quenya 

lelya

delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely

lelya (2) adj. "delicate, beautiful & fine, slender; lovely" (PE17:139, 151)

lelya

adjective. delicate, beautiful and fine, slender, lovely

Cognates

  • S. dail “beautiful, fine, delicate, lovely” ✧ PE17/139; PE17/151; PE17/151

Derivations

  • delya “lovely, fine, beautiful” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151
    • DEL “*fair” ✧ PE17/151; PE17/151

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
delya > lelya[delja] > [lelja]✧ PE17/151
delya > lelya[delja] > [lelja]✧ PE17/151
Quenya [PE17/139; PE17/151] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lelya-

go, proceed (in any direction), travel

lelya- (1) vb. "go, proceed (in any direction), travel", pa.t. lendë / elendë (WJ:363, VT14:5, PE17:139) At one point Tolkien assigned a more specific meaning to the underlying root LED: "go away from the speaker or the point in mind, depart" (PE17:52), which would make lelya- a near synonym of auta-. The same source denies that the derivatives of _LED _were used simply for "go, move, travel", but elsewhere Tolkien assigns precisely that meaning to lelya-.

lelya-

verb. to appear (of beautiful things); to attract, enchant (with dative)

Derivations

  • DEL “*fair” ✧ PE17/151

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
DEL > lelya[delja-] > [lelja-]✧ PE17/151

Variations

  • lelya ✧ PE17/151

lelya-

verb. to will with conscious purpose, immediate or remote

Derivations

  • DEL “will” ✧ NM/231

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
DEL > lelya[delja] > [lelja]✧ NM/231

Variations

  • lelya ✧ NM/231

nelya-

verb. to thicken, congeal

Derivations

  • delya- “?thick, thicken & congeal” ✧ PE17/017
    • DEL “thick, dense” ✧ PE17/017

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
delta/delya > lelya[delja-] > [lelja-]✧ PE17/017
delta/delya > nelya[ndelja-] > [nelja-]✧ PE17/017

Variations

  • lelya ✧ PE17/017 (lelya)
  • nelya ✧ PE17/017 (nelya)

lenna-

go

lenna- vb. "go", pa.t. lendë "went" (LED; cf. lelya-). In the Etymologies as printed in LR, the word lenna- wrongly appears as **linna-; see VT45:27.

vanya-

go, depart, disappear

vanya- (2) vb. "go, depart, disappear", pa.t. vannë (WAN). The verb auta- may have replaced this word in Tolkien's later conception.

men-

go

#men- (4) vb. "go" (VT47:11, cf. VT42:30, VT49:23), attested in the aorist (menë) in the sentence imbi Menel Cemenyë menë Ráno tië "between Heaven and Earth goes the path of the Moon". In the verb nanwen- "return" (or go/come back), -men- is changed to -wen- following nan- "back" (etymological form cited as nan-men-, PE17:166). In examples from VT49:23, 24, Tolkien used men- in the sense of "go as far as": 1st person sg. aorist menin (menin coaryanna "I arrive at [or come/get to] his house"), endingless aorist menë, present tense ména- "is on point of arrival, is just coming to an end", past tense mennë "arrived, reached", in this tense usually with locative rather than allative (mennen sís "I arrive[d] here"), perfect eménië "has just arrived", future menuva "will arrive". All of these examples were first written with the verb as ten- rather than men-, Tolkien then emending the initial consonant.

nelya-

verb. to thicken, congeal

Derivations

  • ᴺ✶. NDEL “thick, dense”