Quenya 

alassë

joy, merriment

alassë (1) noun "joy, merriment" (GALÁS) [VT42:32; a gloss "mirth" was deleted, VT45:14]

alassë

noun. happiness, happiness, [ᴹQ.] joy, merriment

Derivations

  • ᴹ√GALAS “joy, be glad”
    • ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA

Element in

Variations

  • alasse ✧ MS/01

tyal-

verb. play

play

Quenya [PE 18:94] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

tyal-

play

tyal- vb. "play" (1st pers. aorist tyalin "I play") (TYAL)

lalasta

noun. laughter

Derivations

  • √LAL “laugh”
Quenya Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

alassëa

`Cな#,F`C adjective. happy, joyous

Alassë (joy/merriment) + -a (adjectival suffix)

Quenya [Realelvish.org] Published by

Sindarin 

lalaith

noun. laughter

Sindarin [S/406] MS *laleiθ, Q lala- "laugh". Group: SINDICT. Published by

lalaith

feminine name. Laughter

Name of Túrin’s deceased sister, translated “Laughter” (S/198). It is apparently the noun lalaith used as a name.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion revisions from the late 1950s, her name was changed to Lalaeth (MR/374), but that was not the name Christopher Tolkien used in the published Silmarillion.

Elements

WordGloss
lalaith“laughter”

Variations

  • Lalaeth ✧ MRI/Lalaeth; WJI/Urwen
Sindarin [MRI/Lalaeth; S/198; SI/Lalaith; UTI/Lalaith; WJI/Urwen] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lalaith

noun. laughter

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
lala-“to laugh”
-th“abstract noun”

Variations

  • Lalaith ✧ S/198

glass

joy

1) glass (i **lass, constuct glas), pl. glais (in glais), 2) gell (i **ell) (triumph), pl. gill (i ngill = i ñill).

glass

joy

(i ’lass, constuct glas), pl. glais (in glais)

teilien

play

(noun) teilien (i deilien) (sport), pl. teilin (i theilin). The word also occurs in a form that has e rather than ei (telien).

teilien

play

(i deilien) (sport), pl. teilin (i theilin). The word also occurs in a form that has e rather than ei (telien).

lalaith

laughter

lalaith; no distinct pl. form..

lalaith

laughter

; no distinct pl. form..

gell

joy

(i ’ell) (triumph), pl. gill (i ngill = i ñill).

teilia

play

(verb) teilia- (i deilia, i theiliar), also telia- (i delia, i theliar)

teilia

play

(i deilia, i theiliar), also telia- (i delia, i theliar)

Noldorin 

gell

noun. joy, triumph

Noldorin [Ety/359] Group: SINDICT. Published by

ganna-

verb. to play a harp

Noldorin [Ety/377] Group: SINDICT. Published by

telia-

verb. to play

Noldorin [Ety/395] Group: SINDICT. Published by

teilia-

verb. to play

Noldorin [Ety/395] Group: SINDICT. Published by

gannada-

verb. to play a harp

Noldorin [Ety/377] Group: SINDICT. Published by

glas

noun. joy

Noldorin [Ety/357] Group: SINDICT. Published by

glas

noun. joy

glass

noun. joy

Noldorin [Ety/357] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Qenya 

alasse

noun. joy, merriment

Changes

  • alasse → alasse “joy, mirth, merriment” ✧ Ety/GALÁS

Cognates

  • N. glass “joy, *happiness” ✧ Ety/GALÁS

Derivations

  • ᴹ√GALAS “joy, be glad” ✧ Ety/GALÁS
    • ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√GALÁS > alasse[galasse] > [ɣalasse] > [alasse]✧ Ety/GALÁS
Qenya [Ety/GALÁS; EtyAC/GALÁS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

tyal

root. play

This root first appeared as ᴱ√TYALA “play” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with the derivative ᴱQ. tyalie “play, game” (QL/49). Forms in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon like G. dairtha- “play” < ᴱ✶daı̯al- hint that the actual primitive form might have been ✱ᴱ√DYALA or ✱ᴱ√DAYALA (GL/29). In a table of vowel mutations added as a revision to the Gnomish Lexicon Tolkien instead had forms like ᴱ✶táliı̯èndǝ > G. teilian indicating a primitive initial t- (PE13/116); similar forms appeared in the Early Noldorin Dictionary of the 1920s (PE13/165).

In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien gave ᴹ√TYAL “play” with derivatives like ᴹQ. tyal-/N. telia- “to play” and ᴹQ. tyalie/N. telien “sport, play, game” (Ety/TYAL). Tolkien continued to use Q. tyalië “mirth” in later writings (PE21/80; PE17/64), but at some point in the 1950s decided that initial palatalized dentals were no longer a feature of Primitive Elvish (PE18/93-94), making the ongoing validity of √TYAL as a CE root doubtful: see the entry on how [[at|[j] was lost after initial dentals]] in the Welsh-like branch of the Elvish languages for further details. For example, in the second version of Tengwesta Qenderinwa (TQ2) from around 1950, Tolkien indicated √TYAL was a Quenya-only root, an elaboration of √TAL:

> In Quenya initial groups ty, ny, ps, ks appeared as developments of ky, ñy, sp, sk. But being established they were used in new formations. Thus Q tyal- “play” as a variation on tal- (not kal!) (PE18/84).

Neo-Eldarin: For purposes of Neo-Eldarin, I think it is best to ignore Tolkien’s decision to remove initial palatalized dentals from Primitive Elvish in order to retain roots like √TYAL for both Quenya and (Neo) Sindarin.

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶tyalyā- “to play” ✧ Ety/TYAL
    • N. telia- “to play” ✧ Ety/TYAL
  • ᴹQ. tyal- “to play” ✧ Ety/TYAL
  • ᴹQ. tyalie “play, game, sport” ✧ Ety/TYAL
  • ᴺQ. tyalmë “game”
  • ᴺS. tallen “playful, fun(ny)”
  • N. telien “sport, play, sport, play, [ᴱN.] game; jest, mockery, *joke; [G.] stunt” ✧ Ety/TYAL

Element in

  • ᴹ✶tyalangando “harp-player, harper” ✧ Ety/ÑGAN; Ety/TYAL
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/ÑGAN; Ety/TYAL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

dair

noun. play, merriment

@@@ Initial development hard to explain ... elsewhere ty- gives k-

Derivations

Element in

  • G. Bara Dhair Haithin “Cottage of the Lost Play” ✧ LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
  • G. Dairon “The Fluter” ✧ GL/29; LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
  • G. dairwed “merry, funny (common)” ✧ GL/29 (dairwed); GL/29; PE13/112
  • G. dairiol “merry (of things), funny” ✧ GL/29; PE13/112
  • G. dairwen “mirth” ✧ GL/29; LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva; PE13/112
  • G. dairog “merry (of persons)” ✧ GL/29; PE13/112
  • G. dairtha- “to play, amuse” ✧ GL/29; PE13/112

Variations

  • Dair ✧ LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
Gnomish [GL/29; LT2A/Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva; PE13/112] Group: Eldamo. Published by

canc

noun. laughter, mirth, merriment

Cognates

Derivations

  • ᴱ√KAKA “laugh”

Element in

  • G. cancol “laughing” ✧ GL/24 (cancol)
  • G. cacha- “to laugh” ✧ GL/24 (canca-)

saltha-

verb. play

Early Primitive Elvish

daı̯al-

verb. play

Derivations

Derivatives

  • G. dairtha- “to play, amuse” ✧ GL/29
Early Primitive Elvish [GL/29] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

kankale

noun. laughter

Cognates

  • G. canc “laughter, mirth, merriment”

Element in

Early Quenya [PME/044; QL/044] Group: Eldamo. Published by