Early Quenya
qilin
adjective. adorned, bright-coloured, embroidered
Cognates
- G. cwiliog “bright-hued”
Derivations
- ᴱ√QILI “*colour” ✧ QL/077
Element in
- Eq. qilinoite “broidered” ✧ QL/077
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴱ√QILI¹ > qilin [kʷilin] ✧ QL/077
An adjective appearing as ᴱQ. qilin “adorned, bright-coloured, embroidered” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√QILI (QL/77).
Neo-Quenya: I retain the Neo-Root ᴺ√KWIL mostly in the sense “colour/color” for purposes of Neo-Eldarin. However, I think the original sense of ᴺQ. quilin might have been “bright-coloured, ✱embellished”, and from there the senses “adorned” could have developed under the influence of ᴺQ. quiltassë “embroidery”. Therefore, I’d retain this word for purposes of Neo-Quenya with a slightly different origin, but would use ᴺQ. quilinoitë for the more specific sense “[em]broidered”.