Quenya 

lárëa

fat, rich

lárëa (1) adj. "fat, rich" (VT45:26)

lar

fat, riches

lar (1) noun "fat, riches" (VT45:26; Hostetter and Wynne suggest that the second gloss should perhaps read "richness" rather than "riches")

autë

prosperity, wealth

autë noun "prosperity, wealth", also adj. "rich" (LT2:336; rather alma, and as adj. alya or lárëa, in Tolkiens later Quenya)

-ima

fair

-ima adjectival suffix. Sometimes it is used to derive simple adjectives, like vanima "fair" or calima "bright"; it can also take on the meaning "-able" (PE17:68), as in mátima "edible" (mat- "eat"), nótima "countable" (not- "count") and (with a negative prefix) úquétima "unspeakable" (from quet- "speak"). Note that the stem-vowel is normally lengthened in the derivatives where -ima means "-able", though this fails to occur in cenima "visible" (q.v., but contrast hraicénima, q.v.) and also before a consonant cluster as in úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176). "X-ima" may mean "apt to X" (when the ending is added to an intransitive verbal stem), as in Fírimar "mortals", literally "those apt to die" (WJ:387). The adj. úfantima "not concealable" (PE17:176) also appears as úfantuma (PE17:180), indicating the existence of a variant ending -uma (possibly used to derive adjectives with a "bad" meaning; compare the ending *-unqua next to -inqua, q.v.)

vanya

fair

vanya (1) adj. "fair" (FS), "beautiful" (BAN), a word referring to beauty that is "due to lack of fault, or blemish" (PE17:150), hence Arda Vanya as an alternative to Arda Alahasta for "Arda Unmarred" (ibid., compare MR:254). Nominal pl. Vanyar "the Fair", the first clan of the Eldar; the original meaning of this stem was "pale, light-coloured, not brown or dark" (WJ:382, 383, stem given as WAN), "properly = white complexion and blonde hair" (PE17:154, stem given as GWAN); stems BAN vs. WAN discussed, see PE17:150.

vanë

fair

vanë adj. "fair" (LT1:272; in Tolkien's later Quenya rather vanya)

vanë

adjective. fair, fair, [ᴱQ.] lovely

Derivations

  • √BAN “beauty (due to lack of fault or blemish); fair, beautiful” ✧ PE17/056

Element in

  • Q. úvanë(a) “without beauty”
  • Q. vanessë “beauty” ✧ PE17/056
  • Q. vanië “beauty” ✧ PE17/056
  • Q. vanima “beautiful, fair, beautiful, fair, *handsome; [ᴱQ.] proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ PE17/056

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√BAN > vane[bani] > [bane] > [βane] > [vane]✧ PE17/056

Variations

  • vane ✧ PE17/056

alima

fair, good

alima adj. "fair, good" (also alya) (PE17:146)

linda

fair, beautiful

linda adj. "fair, beautiful" (of sound) (SLIN, LIND; VT45:27), "soft, gentle, light" (PE16:96), "beautiful, sweet, melodious of sound" (PE17:150); for Linda as a noun, see Lindar.

herenya

fortunate, wealthy, blessed, rich

herenya adj. "fortunate, wealthy, blessed, rich" (KHER)

alya

fair, good

alya (1) adj. "fair, good" (PE17:146), "prosperous, rich, abundant, blessed" (GALA). In a deleted entry in Etym, the glosses provided were "rich, blessed"; another deleted entry defined alya as "rich, prosperous, blessed". (GALA, [ÁLAM], VT42:32, 45:5, 14)

alma

good fortune, weal, wealth

alma (1) noun "good fortune, weal, wealth". In a deleted entry in Etym, the glosses were "riches, (good) fortune, blessedness"; in another deleted entry, Tolkien provided the glosses "growth" and maybe "increase" (reading uncertain), also "good fortune, riches" (GALA [ALAM], VT45:5, 13, 14)

Sindarin 

bain

fair

_ adj. _fair, good, blessed, wholesome, favourable, without evil/bad element, not dangerous, evil or hostile. bân or bain << bân pl. bain. >> bân

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:150] < BAN beauty, with implication that it is due to _lack of fault_ or _blemish_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

bân

adjective. fair

_ adj. _fair, good, wholesome, favourable, not dangerous, evil or hostile. bân or bain << bân pl. bain. >> bain

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:150] < BAN beauty, with implication that it is due to _lack of fault_ or _blemish_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

gwain

adjective. fair

adj. fair. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:140] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

gwana

noun/adjective. fair

Changes

  • gwain → gwana “fair, general word for Elves” ✧ PE17/140

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
✶wanasō > gwana[wanasō] > [wanaso] > [wanaho] > [gwanaho] > [gwanah] > [gwana]✧ PE17/140

Variations

  • gwain ✧ PE17/140 (gwain)

gwân

adjective. fair

_ adj. _fair, pale.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:165] < _gwan_ < GWAN pale, fair. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

lind

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • √LIN “sing, make a musical sound, sing, make a musical sound, [ᴱ√] gentle”

Element in

  • S. Linhir “Fair Stream” ✧ RC/587

Variations

  • lin ✧ RC/587 (lin)

fael

adjective. fair minded, just, generous

Sindarin [PM/352] Etym. "having a good fëa". Group: SINDICT. Published by

tûg

fat

tûg (lenited dûg, pl. tuig) (thick)

tûg

fat

(lenited dûg, pl. tuig) (thick)

maeligeb

adjective. wealthy, rich

Elements

WordGloss
maelig“wealth, abundance”
-eb“adjective suffix”
Sindarin Group: Eldamo - neologism/reconstructions. Published by

bain

fair

bain (beautiful). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

bain

fair

(beautiful). Lenited vain. No distinct pl. form.

Primitive elvish

bani

adjective. fair

Element in

  • Q. vanië “beauty” ✧ PE17/057
  • Q. vanima “beautiful, fair, beautiful, fair, *handsome; [ᴱQ.] proper, right, as it should be, fair” ✧ PE17/057

Variations

  • vanĭ ✧ PE17/057
Primitive elvish [PE17/057] Group: Eldamo. Published by

wanyā

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • √(G)WAN “pale, fair” ✧ WJ/383

Derivatives

  • Q. Vanya “Fair Elves, the Fair” ✧ WJ/380; WJ/383
    • T. Vania “Vanya” ✧ WJ/383

Variations

  • wanjā ✧ WJ/380; WJ/383
Primitive elvish [WJ/380; WJ/383] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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Qenya 

lárea

adjective. fat, rich

A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “fat, rich”, the adjectival form of ᴹQ. lar under the root ᴹ√LAR “rich, fat” (EtyAC/LAR).

Conceptual Development: When this entry was first written, root forms were ᴹ√LAR/LAS, this word had two forms lára and lárea, and its gloss was “blessed” (EtyAC/LAR). When Tolkien updated this root to be “fat, rich” he seems to have restored the early root ᴱ√LARA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s whose derivatives also had to do with “fat” (QL/51). As such, the 1930s word lárea “fat, rich” seems to be a later iteration of ᴱQ. {larda >>} laruke “fat, rich” from this 1910s root.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes Neo-Quenya, I would use this word to refer to the rich taste of food, especially richness as derived from fat (including from substances like butter or even vegetable fats), such as “this soup is rich (tastes good because of fats)” = sina sulpa lárëa (ná). For “fatty” of actual flesh or meat I would instead use ᴺQ. larmëa.

Changes

  • lára/lárea → lárea “blessed” ✧ EtyAC/LAR

Variations

  • lára/lárea ✧ EtyAC/LAR (lára/lárea)

vanima

adjective. fair

Derivations

  • ᴹ√BAN “*beauty” ✧ Ety/BAN

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Vanimo “The Beautiful; Fair Folk” ✧ Ety/BAN

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√BAN > vanima[banima] > [βanima] > [vanima]✧ Ety/BAN

herenya

adjective. fortunate, wealthy, blessed, rich

alya

adjective. rich, prosperous, abundant, blessed

Derivations

  • ᴹ√ALA “*blessed” ✧ Ety/ÁLAM; EtyAC/AL
  • ᴹ√GAL “grow, thrive” ✧ Ety/GALA; EtyAC/GAL(AS)

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√AL > alya[alja]✧ Ety/ÁLAM
ᴹ√GALA > alya[galja] > [ɣalja] > [alja]✧ Ety/GALA
ᴹ√AL > alya[alja]✧ EtyAC/AL
ᴹ√GAL > alya[galja] > [ɣalja] > [alja]✧ EtyAC/GAL(AS)
Qenya [Ety/ÁLAM; Ety/GALA; EtyAC/AL; EtyAC/GAL(AS); PE22/021; PE22/023; PE22/052] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

lar

root. rich, fat

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “rich, fat” (EtyAC/LAR), a later iteration of the root ᴱ√LARA from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s which had derivatives like ᴱQ. laru “fat, grease” and ᴱQ. laruke “fat, rich” (QL/51). The 1930s root includes the derivative ᴹQ. larma “[?pig-]fat, flesh” so it likewise seems to refer to fatty flesh and rich food, but in the 1930s it replaced a deleted entry with both ᴹ√LAR and ᴹ√LAS whose derivatives had glosses connected to blessedness and luck (EtyAC/LAR), so it seems Tolkien was vacillating somewhat on the meaning of this root.

Changes

  • LAR/LAS → LAR ✧ EtyAC/LAR

Derivatives

  • ᴹ✶alar-si “hail!” ✧ EtyAC/LAR
    • ᴹQ. alla “hail!” ✧ EtyAC/LAR
  • ᴹ✶alā́ri “bliss” ✧ EtyAC/LAR
  • ᴹQ. lar “fat, riches [richness?], fat, richness, riches” ✧ EtyAC/LAR; EtyAC/LAR
  • ᴹQ. lár- “to happen” ✧ EtyAC/LAR
  • ᴹQ. larma “(?pig-)fat, flesh, fat [as a substance], (?pig-)fat, flesh” ✧ EtyAC/LAR; EtyAC/LAR
  • ᴺQ. laru “grease, fat”

Element in

  • ᴹQ. Aláriel “Eadwine” ✧ EtyAC/ÑEL (Aláriel)

Variations

  • LAR/LAS ✧ EtyAC/LAR (LAR/LAS)
Middle Primitive Elvish [EtyAC/LAR; EtyAC/ÑEL] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

malc

adjective. rich, powerful

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ✶malkĭ- > malc[malki] > [malk]✧ GL/56

Variations

  • malc ✧ GL/56

ausin

noun/adjective. rich; fortune

Cognates

  • Eq. aute “rich” ✧ LT2A/Ausir

Element in

Variations

  • awsin ✧ PE13/111
Gnomish [GL/20; LT2A/Ausir; PE13/111] Group: Eldamo. Published by

maltha

adjective. golden yellow, rich, mellow

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MALA “yellow”

Element in

Early Noldorin

awes

adjective. rich

Changes

  • aurin → awes “wealthy” ✧ PE13/137

Derivations

  • ᴱ√AW̯A “*wealth”

Variations

  • aurin ✧ PE13/137 (aurin)
  • ’wessa ✧ PE13/137
  • gwes ✧ PE13/137
  • gwest ✧ PE13/137
Early Noldorin [PE13/137] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gwes(t)

adjective. rich

hiw

adjective. rich

A word Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s glossed “rich”, derived from ᴱ✶pingwé (PE13/147). The editors suggest it was likely related to ᴱQ. pingwa “fat, rich (of soil)” from the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s (QL/74).

Derivations

Early Noldorin [PE13/147] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lhub

noun. fat

A noun appearing as ᴱN. lhub “fat” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/149). It was a later iteration G. lub “fat, fat flesh” in Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s derived from primitive ᴱ✶lūpe (GL/55).

Neo-Sindarin: I think it is worth retaining these words for purposes of Neo-Sindarin as ᴺS. lûb “fat, (fat) flesh” from a Neo-Root ᴺ√LUP.

Derivations

  • ᴱ√PULU “swell”
Early Noldorin [PE13/149] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Primitive Elvish

sḷkḷ

root. rich, lush

ᴱ√SḶKḶ² “rich, lush” was variant of the root ᴱ√SṚKṚ “fat” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives ᴱQ. silk(in)a “rich, fat, glossy” and ᴱQ. silqe “gloss hair” (QL/86), possibly the same as ᴱ√SḶKḶ from which “grass” words were derived (QL/84). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, ᴹ√SALAK was used exclusively of “grass” words.

Derivatives

  • Eq. silk(in)a “rich, fat, glossy” ✧ QL/086
  • Eq. silqe “tress of hair; (glossy) hair” ✧ QL/086
Early Primitive Elvish [QL/084; QL/086] Group: Eldamo. Published by

sṛkṛ

root. fat

Derivatives

  • Eq. sarko “flesh, living flesh, body” ✧ LT2A/Sarqindi; QL/086
  • Eq. sarqa “fleshy” ✧ LT2A/Sarqindi; QL/086
Early Primitive Elvish [LT2A/Sarqindi; QL/086] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

aute

adjective. rich

Cognates

  • G. ausin “rich; fortune” ✧ LT2A/Ausir

Derivations

  • ᴱ√AW̯A “*wealth” ✧ LT2A/Ausir; QL/033

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√AW̯A > aute[awti] > [awte] > [aute]✧ QL/033
ᴱ√AW̯A > ausi[awti-] > [auti-] > [autsi-] > [ausi-]✧ QL/033

Variations

  • autë ✧ LT2A/Ausir
  • aute ✧ QL/033
Early Quenya [LT2A/Ausir; QL/033] Group: Eldamo. Published by

malke

adjective. rich

Changes

  • malka → malke ✧ QL/062

Cognates

  • G. malc “rich, powerful”

Derivations

Element in

  • Eq. malkasta “lordship, province” ✧ QL/062

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√MḶKḶ > malke[mḹki] > [mḹke] > [malke]✧ QL/062

Variations

  • malka ✧ QL/062 (malka)
Early Quenya [QL/062] Group: Eldamo. Published by

laruke

adjective. fat, rich

Changes

  • larda → laruke “fat, rich” ✧ QL/051

Variations

  • larda ✧ QL/051 (larda)
Early Quenya [QL/051] Group: Eldamo. Published by

silk(in)a

adjective. rich, fat, glossy

An adjective in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with variants silka, silkina and glosses “rich, fat, glossy” derived from the early root ᴱ√SḶKḶ “rich, lush” (QL/86).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√SḶKḶ “rich, lush” ✧ QL/086

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√SḶKḶ² > silka[sḷkā] > [sḷka] > [silka]✧ QL/086

Variations

  • silka ✧ QL/086
  • silkina ✧ QL/086
Early Quenya [QL/086] Group: Eldamo. Published by

pyúva

adjective. fat

Derivations

Early Quenya [PE16/137] Group: Eldamo. Published by