salqe

noun. grass, grass, [ᴱQ.] long mowing grass

A noun for “grass” in The Etymologies of the 1930s derived from ᴹ✶SALÁK-(WĒ) (Ety/SALÁK).

Conceptual Development: The noun ᴱQ. salki “grass” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon and Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa derived from the early root ᴱ√SḶKḶ (QL/84; PME/84), but it was -salke in ᴱQ. Andesalke “Africa, Long Grass” (QL/31; PME/31). ᴱQ. salqe appeared in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s as a cognate to ᴱN. halb “grass, long mowing grass” (PE13/147).

Cognates

• Ilk. salch “grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK
• On. salape “herb, green food plant” ✧ Ety/SALÁK
• N. salab “herb” ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Derivations

• ᴹ✶salakwē “*grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK
  • ᴹ√SALAK “*grass” ✧ Ety/SALÁK

Element in

• ᴺQ. porisalquë “corn, (lit.) flour-grass”
• ᴺQ. salquecápo “grasshopper”
• ᴺQ. salquecolca “manger, (lit.) grass-box”
• ᴺQ. salquenor “grassland, meadow”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶SALÁK-(WĒ) > salqe	[salakwē] > [salkwē] > [salkwe]	✧ Ety/SALÁK