loa, noun literally "growth", used of a solar year (= coranar) when seasonal changes are considered (Appendix D; in PM:126 loa is translated "time of growth". Pl. loar, or "löar", in MR:426) The form loa is also mentioned as the hypothetical Quenya cognate of Sindarin lô ("swampy"), but precisely because it clashed with loa "year", this Quenya cognate was not in use (VT42:10)
Quenya
loar
(golden) blossom
löar
noun. (golden) blossom
loa
growth
löa
noun. (seasonal) year, (lit.) (time of) growth, blooming
Cognates
- ᴺS. lóran “seasonal year, (lit.) growth-cycle”
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺQ. illöa(va) “annual, yearly, per annum (year as item)”
- ᴺQ. löasta “season, (lit.) year-part”
- ᴺQ. löacasta “season, (lit.) year-quarter”
- Q. loëndë “mid-year (Númenórean calendar), *(lit.) year-middle”
- ᴺQ. qualöa(va) “annual, yearly, perennial (year as whole)”
- Q. umbë nin i hríve nauva urra (si loa) “I have a feeling that winter will be bad (this year)” ✧ PE22/168
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶lawā > löa [lawā] > [loa] ✧ PE17/159 ✶lawa > loa [lawa] > [loa] ✧ VT42/10 Variations
- loa ✧ LotR/1107; LotR/1112; PE17/120; PE22/168; PM/126; UT/327; UTI/loa; UTI/tuilë; UTI/yestarë; VT42/10
lávar
(golden) blossom
lávar noun "(golden) blossom". Also loa. (PE17:159)
lávar
noun. (golden) blossom
A word in notes from the 1960s for a “(golden) blossom” with variants löar and lávar, both based on the √LAWAR having to with the colour “gold” (PE17/159). The element ᴹQ. lavar also appeared as an element in the name for a Númenorean tree ᴹQ. lavaralda in stories from the 1930s which Tolkien described as having “long green leaves [that] were golden on the undersides” and whose “flowers were pale with a yellow flush” (LR/57-68). For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use lávar for “(golden) blossom”, since that form is more distinctive.
Derivations
- √(G)LAWAR “golden light” ✧ PE17/159
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LAWAR > löar [lawar] > [loar] ✧ PE17/159 √LAWAR > lávar [lāwar] > [lāβar] > [lāvar] ✧ PE17/159 Variations
- löar ✧ PE17/159
lavaralda
(golden) blossom
lavaralda (changed by Tolkien from lavarin) noun some kind of tree (alda) (LR:57). The initial element lavar- seems to connect with the root LAWAR having to do with golden colour; cf. lávar "(golden) blossom" (PE17:159).
olmië
noun. growth
Derivations
- √OL “grow, [ᴹ√] grow [into]; become”
olasta
noun. growth
Elements
Word Gloss ola- “to grow [up], to grow, grow up, reach its prime, become” -sta “verbal noun suffix”
loar noun "(golden) blossom" (not to be confused with the pl. form of loa). Also lávar. (PE17:159)